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First post, by PcBytes

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I just finished building some machines, ever since I got a box full of GPUs (and a ISA soundcard and a 56K modem that I have no use for) that are more or less working.

Some specs:

Build 1 - My First 3dfx based build!

Athlon XP 1700+
JNC LC-B350ATX 350W (recapped)
Gigabyte GA-7DXE (AMD760)
256MB DDR400 RAM
WDC WD400BB 40GB IDE
LG 52x CD-RW
3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP
Realtek RTL8139C NIC
haven't decided if 2k or 98SE

Build 2

Athlon XP 2500+
Torrent Computers LC-B400ATX 400W (recapped)
Gigabyte GA-7N400E-L
256MB RAM
Maxtor 6E040L0 40GB - sadly on its way out, need to find a replacement drive soon
TSSTCorp SH-S162B DVD-RW
Palit Geforce 4 MX440 AGP8x 64MB
Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Build 3

Pentium 4 2.6GHz - Northwood HT core
Delux ATX-400W P4 - it's a rebuilt Leadman LP-7700 with EI-40 transformer (have measured it and it's a real 40)
ASUS P4P800/GD Rev2.00
1GB RAM
WDC WD3200AAJS/Caviar Blue - looks brand new almost (save for a very thin layer of dust), came out from a set top box w/ built-in DVR functions
HL-DT-ST GSA-4167B (w/ white bezel) DVD-RW
Palit Radeon 9550 AGP8x 128MB
Pixelview PV-TV304P+ TV Tuner
Windows XP Home Edition SP3

Build 4:

Pentium 4 2.8GHz - Northwood HT core
Allied AL-A400ATX 400W 120mm fan
MSI 865PE Neo2-LS
1GB RAM
Maxtor 6Y080L0 80GB IDE
Hitachi-LG GCC-4481B CD-RW\DVD-ROM
MSI Geforce FX5600 128MB AGP8x
Realtek RTL8139D NIC
Windows XP Pro SP3

Build 5:

AMD Sempron 2800+ 754
ANS LC-B350ATX PSU
ASUS K8N4-E
1GB RAM
WDC WD800JB 80GB IDE
LiteON LTD-163 DVD-ROM
ASUS EN7300GT/Silent 256MB PCI-E
Server 2003 R2

By the way, an Core 2 Duo E7600 machine is in the works!

"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB

Reply 2 of 6, by SW-SSG

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PcBytes wrote:

ASUS K8N4-E

Neat, have been looking for one of these for a while. I fear most of them are in landfills, as a result of the mediocre chipset fans Asus installed on these (and their other NF4) boards, failing within months and gradually cooking the chipset. 😵

Reply 3 of 6, by PcBytes

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SW-SSG wrote:
PcBytes wrote:

ASUS K8N4-E

Neat, have been looking for one of these for a while. I fear most of them are in landfills, as a result of the mediocre chipset fans Asus installed on these (and their other NF4) boards, failing within months and gradually cooking the chipset. 😵

Heh. I got mine because it had a bad cap near the USB. Funny thing, the fan still works.

chinny22 - I have 2 DVDs from the Internet Archive that have nearly ALL Windows versions (from NT 3.1 to XP, excluding Vista and 7 which weren't out at the time these ISOs were made probably) and are pretty handy. They also have a recovery menu with a few utilities, such as 98SE w/ NTFS support, Partition Magic and a few other utilities. (Bart's Network Boot and a few I never usually heard of them from Bart)

"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB

Reply 5 of 6, by chinny22

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Ah so your just playing round with different versions more then having a grand plan, fair enough.

Think I've got that same DVD download as well, even includes old IE, Media player and other MS software. Its come in handy sometimes at work where people have lost the original CD as it even lets you create an iso of OEM, Retail, ETC of each flavour. and windows refuses to accept anything else but same licence type.

(the non volume licence ones do have activation crack pre installed, so wouldn't like to runup a server at work with it though)

Reply 6 of 6, by PcBytes

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chinny22 wrote:

Ah so your just playing round with different versions more then having a grand plan, fair enough.

Think I've got that same DVD download as well, even includes old IE, Media player and other MS software. Its come in handy sometimes at work where people have lost the original CD as it even lets you create an iso of OEM, Retail, ETC of each flavour. and windows refuses to accept anything else but same licence type.

(the non volume licence ones do have activation crack pre installed, so wouldn't like to runup a server at work with it though)

Yes, I did notice it has Retail.OEM and Corporate version for each XP versions etc.

However, I didn't get any IE, Media player or MS software on the DVD I have. Maybe it's on disc 2? I do know I got them off from Internet Archive through torrent (since it was faster than browser) and it had 2 discs.

Here's what the discs contain, from the Internet Archive site description:

all_windows_dvd_1.iso: 
Windows Server 2003 (Datacenter Corp, Enterprise Corp, Web Corp, Datancenter, Enterprise, Standard, Web)
Windows XP (Pro Corp, Pro Retail, Pro OEM, Home Corp, Home Retail, Home OEM, Media Center, Tablet PC)
Windows 2000 (Datacenter Server, Advaced Server, Server, Workstation)
Windows NT 4.0 (Enterprise Server, Server, Terminal Server, Workstation)

all_windows_dvd_2.iso:
Windows Millenium (Windows Millenium, Upgrade, StepUp)
Windows 98 (Second Edition, Second Edition Upgrade, First Edition, First Edition Upgrade)
Windows 95 (95C, 95B, 95A, 95 Original, 95 Upgrade)
Windows NT 3.51 (Server, Workstation)
Windows NT 3.5 (Server, Workstation)
Windows NT 3.1 (Advaced Server, Workstation)

Also all XP (and possibly 2003)and 2000 versions are auto-activated. Haven't tried NT4 but maybe I will as soon as I find a Pentium MMX or Pentium 2 to experiment with. Will see about the 9x versions though, since I have a Voodoo3/Athlon XP machine waiting for an OS.

"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB