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Reply 39480 of 54979, by dionb

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Via So370 chipsets support the ISA bus, so it could work. You might need some extra passive bits and pieces (SMD resistors & caps) here and there though. Best bet would be to find a pic of a version of the board with slot present and compare all the stuff around it with yours.

Here's a half-decent one of the MS-6309: https://images.anandtech.com/old/motherboards … 33a/msi6309.jpg

That GA-7N400L is an absolutely great board, probably my favorite SoA board. It's not that it has a ton of features, it just has the basic nForce2Ultra-400 chipset, but that means excellent performance. Anything else you can add in a PCI slot. The only onboard stuff is mediocre audio and nework, but you can disable both. There were more extensive versions with extra PATA RAID, SATA and IEEE1394 chips onboard, but none beat the better PCI options.

Also: nice Speccy games. Gauntlet brings back memories...

Reply 39481 of 54979, by iVirtualZero

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dionb wrote on 2021-06-13, 23:11:
Via So370 chipsets support the ISA bus, so it could work. You might need some extra passive bits and pieces (SMD resistors & cap […]
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Via So370 chipsets support the ISA bus, so it could work. You might need some extra passive bits and pieces (SMD resistors & caps) here and there though. Best bet would be to find a pic of a version of the board with slot present and compare all the stuff around it with yours.

Here's a half-decent one of the MS-6309: https://images.anandtech.com/old/motherboards … 33a/msi6309.jpg

That GA-7N400L is an absolutely great board, probably my favorite SoA board. It's not that it has a ton of features, it just has the basic nForce2Ultra-400 chipset, but that means excellent performance. Anything else you can add in a PCI slot. The only onboard stuff is mediocre audio and nework, but you can disable both. There were more extensive versions with extra PATA RAID, SATA and IEEE1394 chips onboard, but none beat the better PCI options.

Also: nice Speccy games. Gauntlet brings back memories...

Thanks for the great reply, would love to own a ZX Spectrum someday or a Commodore. As for the Socket 370 motherboard, it does indeed look like a decent board. Would be better with an ISA port. Is there any schematic or guide out there to know what those missing components are?

Reply 39482 of 54979, by dionb

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iVirtualZero wrote on 2021-06-13, 23:48:

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Thanks for the great reply, would love to own a ZX Spectrum someday or a Commodore. As for the Socket 370 motherboard, it does indeed look like a decent board. Would be better with an ISA port. Is there any schematic or guide out there to know what those missing components are?

Depends on the specific board. I'm not aware of any documentation, hence the suggestion to use pictures.

Reply 39483 of 54979, by megatron-uk

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Picked up an ESS 1868F to go in an Olivetti PCS 11 (single ISA slot!) which someone has put aside for me.

Always used a real Soundblaster in all of my PC's (well, apart from those that were dual Soundblaster/GUS machines), so it will be interesting to see what this is like.

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Reply 39484 of 54979, by chinny22

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Just make sure the Dell PSU isn't the non standard ATX one, I think your ok looking at the cables but doesn't hurt to do a double check against its part number.
For that price though it's hard to complain!

Reply 39485 of 54979, by Nick4

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Got this new-in-box case recently:
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Really heavy, made of thick metal. Unfortunately, the PSU is missing. Will fit some WinXP build, I guess.

Reply 39486 of 54979, by buckeye

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Nick4 wrote on 2021-06-14, 12:44:
Got this new-in-box case recently: https://i.imgur.com/qsWlAhcl.jpg Really heavy, made of thick metal. Unfortunately, the PSU is […]
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Got this new-in-box case recently:
qsWlAhcl.jpg
Really heavy, made of thick metal. Unfortunately, the PSU is missing. Will fit some WinXP build, I guess.

What a nice looking case, I want one!

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Reply 39488 of 54979, by iVirtualZero

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chinny22 wrote on 2021-06-14, 08:43:

Just make sure the Dell PSU isn't the non standard ATX one, I think your ok looking at the cables but doesn't hurt to do a double check against its part number.
For that price though it's hard to complain!

I will not be using the Dell psu. Going to sell it on.

Reply 39489 of 54979, by Miphee

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I love strange looking rams, probably from a Sun SPARCstation.

Reply 39490 of 54979, by Horun

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Nice finds!

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Reply 39491 of 54979, by pentiumspeed

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Just got package from Rome, Italy today. Took less time than expected.

In it is Compaq Deskpro M 486SX 25 with other goodies, most sought after is power supply board.

How long I wait for any possible insects to die?

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Reply 39492 of 54979, by bjwil1991

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Bought a DX4/5x86 interposer and a NanTan FMA7600 laptop.

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Unfortunately, the laptop hasn't the charger and I found the schematic/pinout for the charger/DC port so I can daisy chain my own PSU brick.

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Reply 39493 of 54979, by pampilhoso

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Managed to get a PODP5V83 for 50 bucks.

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Reply 39494 of 54979, by chrismeyer6

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Wow!! That's a hell of a good deal nice find!

Reply 39495 of 54979, by luckybob

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Agreed! I gotta hand it to you, $50 is a good deal if it works.

(Golly, this 'hobby' has gotten expensive in the last few years, eh?)

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 39496 of 54979, by subnet_zero

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I got a nice deal on a ASUS P4P800 SE with socket 478 and an Geforce 6800GT APG with 256MB DDR3 with the mermaid artwork from the NVIDIA Nalu Tech-Demo.

Also included 1x 512MB DDR400 RAM from MTD that was "Made in Germany", a Northwood 3GHz Pentium 4 (sadly with 2 missing pins, see picture) and a beefy CPU cooler with adjustable fan, the I/O shield, a IDE and a Floppy cable.
This was 46€ with shipping, i guess it's a good deal these days on ebay.

The P4 CPU might work despite those two missing pins. The seller shows a picture from the initial boot screen of the board. I will find out in the future.

Reply 39497 of 54979, by aitotat

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I just got something that you just can't let pass:
uc?export=download&id=18sy_L17ciJlllOgTVX1IdW5-nGI_U9hg

Reply 39498 of 54979, by cyclone3d

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aitotat wrote on 2021-06-16, 16:56:
I just got something that you just can't let pass: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=18sy_L17ciJlllOgTVX1IdW5-nGI_U […]
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I just got something that you just can't let pass:
uc?export=download&id=18sy_L17ciJlllOgTVX1IdW5-nGI_U9hg

Computer with a Roland LAPC-I. Very nice!

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Reply 39499 of 54979, by A001

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Who'd be able to ID this behemoth on the left?