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Reply 13560 of 54980, by shamino

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Found cheap on ebay a Vortex2 sound card that had been mislabeled as "video card with audio ports" 😀

🤣 - "video card with audio ports. No video port."

Reply 13561 of 54980, by shiva2004

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shamino wrote:
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Found cheap on ebay a Vortex2 sound card that had been mislabeled as "video card with audio ports" 😀

🤣 - "video card with audio ports. No video port."

I've seen this a lot of times in ebay, the listing says "10 video cards" and in the photos you see video cards, capture cards, sound cards and usb and network cards... it seems that to some people the unique kind of expansion cards that exist are video cards 🤣

Reply 13562 of 54980, by stamasd

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shamino wrote:
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Found cheap on ebay a Vortex2 sound card that had been mislabeled as "video card with audio ports" 😀

🤣 - "video card with audio ports. No video port."

Actually the description said it had audio ports and a 15-pin video port... (the MIDI/joystick connector 😀)

These youngsters don't even remember what a VGA connector looks like.

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Reply 13563 of 54980, by Carlos S. M.

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stamasd wrote:
shamino wrote:
stamasd wrote:

Found cheap on ebay a Vortex2 sound card that had been mislabeled as "video card with audio ports" 😀

🤣 - "video card with audio ports. No video port."

Actually the description said it had audio ports and a 15-pin video port... (the MIDI/joystick connector 😀)

These youngsters don't even remember what a VGA connector looks like.

When current people are clueless with old hardware... (although i'm only 20 and i know about old/legacy hardware)

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Reply 13564 of 54980, by kanecvr

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I have to buy some of these "save buttons" tomorrow to dump some of my usual driver images on them.

Reply 13565 of 54980, by PhilsComputerLab

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A computer shop in Australia was selling a bunch of graphics card. They were new, and very good price. When they arrived, the box was massive. Turns out they are all NIB!

3x GTX 250 with 1 GB.

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Reply 13566 of 54980, by Carlos S. M.

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PhilsComputerLab wrote:

A computer shop in Australia was selling a bunch of graphics card. They were new, and very good price. When they arrived, the box was massive. Turns out they are all NIB!

3x GTX 250 with 1 GB.

Nice find. Scoring GPUs like that for cheap here is not easy, by the way, the GTS 250 is a rebranded 9800 GTX+ (literrally same specs and same G92b core). I once found a GTX 280 for 35 € which i didn't have oportunity to get 🙁

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Reply 13567 of 54980, by oeuvre

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Got a P4 system on craigslist for $20 today... I was more interested in the case and everything else except for the P4 and the mobo. Here are some pictures...

The case is an Antec SX1080 and it came with a 430W PSU. Seems to work fine.

http://imgur.com/a/6CeHC

The motherboard (which I don't particularly have a use for, I don't really like P4 systems)

http://imgur.com/a/Mmyd7

The gfx card is an ATI All In Wonder of some sort.

http://imgur.com/a/iTx0r

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Reply 13568 of 54980, by Deksor

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Bought this nice 386SX-20 at a flea market for 10€

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It was raining yesterday so I had to dissassemble it or it would have rusted. I don't have the charger (It requires 15V 🙁) but I can power it with the battery connector where it only requires 9V

The conner HDD (60MB woo !!) had it's heads stuck, but I managed to repair it and now it works perfectly (no errors in scandisk)

There is only one issue left ... the floppy disk drive, it's belt is dead so I need to change it

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Reply 13569 of 54980, by Lukeno94

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My 486-based T4600 has that same floppy drive issue I think.

Reply 13570 of 54980, by kanecvr

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Just took the plunge and ordered a ROLAND SC-55mk2 from japan. 98$ shipped. I would have prefered an MT32, but the cheapest one I could find would have brought me 40$ over budget 🙁 Still, can't wait for the SC-55 to arrive 😁 - I'll need to find or build a DIN5 to DS15 midi cable for it tough... and I'll need to find an appropriate 9v PSU.

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I also got this lot of serial mice in for 14$. All of them work. Two of the Logitech mice need the left click switch replaced (easy job). Dirty old G600 not included of course 😜

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Bought this nice 386SX-20 at a flea market for 10€

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It was raining yesterday so I had to dissassemble it or it would have rusted. I don't have the charger (It requires 15V 🙁) but I can power it with the battery connector where it only requires 9V

The conner HDD (60MB woo !!) had it's heads stuck, but I managed to repair it and now it works perfectly (no errors in scandisk)

There is only one issue left ... the floppy disk drive, it's belt is dead so I need to change it

I was surprised to find that some chinese made universal power bricks come with 9v, 12v, 15v, 18v, 19v and 21v heads witch match quite a few old laptops and newer odd-ball designs (like the inspiron 8200). They're pretty cheap and the one I bought is pretty weighty too unlike most other universal bricks.

The FDD belt is an easy fix - get some thick surgical thread - the non-degradable kind - you can fasten into a really nice belt replacement. It works for optical drives too. Just make sure it's not nylon thread, and make sure you tighten it sufficiently.

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Reply 13571 of 54980, by brostenen

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SC55..... Congrat's on the purchase. 😀

Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 13572 of 54980, by mongaccio

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Nice portable, Deksor!

I have recently bought at a flea market this 286. 40eur with its original carrying bag.
Probably a bit too much , but it is rare to see old pc's in flea markets in my country, you mostly see classy and antique furniture and non-electronic stuff, so i decided to buy it!
It's a Lemon! Nice sounding name here in Italy, the brand started by cloning the ...Apple... 2 hardware, then they decided to enter in the ibm pc clone market.
Not a good name for an English PC i've heard 😀
Has 1 mb ram and a 20 mb Miniscribe hard drive (with ide connector.. i wonder if it's really ide tho)
Floppy drive works. Here's the test with dos 6

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Battery is dead (both the 12v power supply battery and the 3.6v clock ) I'll have to replace both. There's also the tiny internal fan in need of replacement.
Hard disk is KO, i've tried to replace it with a CF with no success, BIOS is really barebone you can't modify hard drive specs (strangely enough detects a 20 mb hard drive even if it's disconnected)
There's also 2 ISA expansion slots. 8 and 16 bit. I wonder if i can put a 2nd controller in it and finally use some CF as hard drive. I'm quite sure that the BIOS won't allow me that.
Good lord i really need a service manual for this pc.

Reply 13573 of 54980, by shiva2004

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oeuvre wrote:
Got a P4 system on craigslist for $20 today... I was more interested in the case and everything else except for the P4 and the m […]
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Got a P4 system on craigslist for $20 today... I was more interested in the case and everything else except for the P4 and the mobo. Here are some pictures...

The case is an Antec SX1080 and it came with a 430W PSU. Seems to work fine.

http://imgur.com/a/6CeHC

The motherboard (which I don't particularly have a use for, I don't really like P4 systems)

http://imgur.com/a/Mmyd7

The gfx card is an ATI All In Wonder of some sort.

http://imgur.com/a/iTx0r

Just so you know, the motherboard is probably the most sought after 478 mobo, you can sell it for more than you paid for all the system, and it seems to have also two very nice Corsair XMS memory modules.
Also, wtf is the video connector on the Ati?

Reply 13574 of 54980, by luckybob

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Someone loved that system. I had the same case for mt p4 system.

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

Reply 13575 of 54980, by Brickpad

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Bought this Colorado Memory Systems FC-20 card today just so I can use the onboard Molex power connector. My plan is to use it in combination with an IDE controller to run an IDE drive in my PS/2 Model 30 286.

Reply 13576 of 54980, by oeuvre

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shiva2004 wrote:
oeuvre wrote:
Got a P4 system on craigslist for $20 today... I was more interested in the case and everything else except for the P4 and the m […]
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Got a P4 system on craigslist for $20 today... I was more interested in the case and everything else except for the P4 and the mobo. Here are some pictures...

The case is an Antec SX1080 and it came with a 430W PSU. Seems to work fine.

http://imgur.com/a/6CeHC

The motherboard (which I don't particularly have a use for, I don't really like P4 systems)

http://imgur.com/a/Mmyd7

The gfx card is an ATI All In Wonder of some sort.

http://imgur.com/a/iTx0r

Just so you know, the motherboard is probably the most sought after 478 mobo, you can sell it for more than you paid for all the system, and it seems to have also two very nice Corsair XMS memory modules.
Also, wtf is the video connector on the Ati?

Exactly what I was thinking; I looked it up on eBay and Google... seems to be a high end mobo for the time. I ordered an MX440 for a few bucks to test out the board before selling.

The ATI has a proprietary connector... read more about it here http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Searc … sp?EdpNo=988543

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Reply 13577 of 54980, by brostenen

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Had to have that meme, so I googled "floppy meme" and it came up with this... 🤣

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Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 13578 of 54980, by oeuvre

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You turn my floppy disk into a solid state...

"Yeah, so that explains why you always finish quickly"

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Reply 13579 of 54980, by kanecvr

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brostenen wrote:
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I laughed way too much at this 😁