Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on Yesterday, 05:24
Put together a "Sleeper PC" for a friend. 16gb of ddr2 800, Phenom ii x4 925, HD-6870 and a 200gb Intel ssd in a Dimension 4600 case!
Re: GeForce3 woes
Posted on 2021-05-07, 04:36
Would it be possible to figure out what Geforce 3 cards used that memory configuration and flash the bios to one of those cards? And probably replace all the memory with the donor memory.
Re: Strangest thing found on harddrives
Posted on 2021-05-05, 17:25
There was a Athlon 64 Compaq I picked up from Value Village that had a full Athlon ii x2 260, matx am3 Asus motherboard and a 4gb stick of ddr3 1600 with a fresh and activated Windows 7 install on a 320gb sata drive from about 2010. A neat and welcome surprise!
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2021-04-29, 20:37
Do you have the proprietary mitsumi ide cable to go with the drive? You could try adding a SB16 or some sound card that has the mitsumi interface and see if the controller card is the issue potentially
Re: How to either get a 10GB HDD working in a IBM PC Series 350 P75...
Posted on 2021-04-24, 03:56
Could it be an issue with large HDD's with the ide controller within the motherboard chipset? Check the date of the bios and update it to the latest if you can, and maybe try out a bootable pci ide card? I used a Promise 133 card with 2 7200rpm 80gb Maxtor drives in Radio 0 on a TX chipset 233mhz P1 …
Re: PCI vga/accelerator low profile without metal bracket?
Posted on 2021-04-16, 19:06
The dual dvi should be dms59
Re: Socket 7 to SLOT 1 adapter?
Posted on 2021-04-15, 19:10
Hello all, Is there such a thing available? I would like to have the flexibility to swap my PIII-800MHz SLOT with *possibly* a Socket7 CPU, that allows me to play some CPU Sensitive DOS games. I believe there is an adapter for Celeron Socket 370, but I don't want that: I need a Socket7 adapter, as …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-04-11, 07:09
Iv got 16gb of amd ddr2 800mhz ram coming soon. Have a Nvidia chipset Gigabyte am3/2+ motherboard with 4 ram slots and a phenom ii 1055t Im gunna try em out with.
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-04-11, 07:07
On a recent walk I spotted this out by the curb. It has a 760GM-P34 motherboard, 8 gigs of DDR3 and an FX4130 CPU. The hard drive, optical drive, and PSU had been removed. I put my cheapo spare PSU in it, and it powered up without any issue. I Fantastic find! I love bulldozer stuff. I keep using …
Re: Dying cooler - looking for replacement and cleaning advice
Posted on 2021-04-05, 07:56
Remove that die shim too! I am no native speaker: what does this mean? Whats a die shim? Thanks for the cooler hint. Do you have an alternative in mind? The problem is the height of the cooler - it covers the next PCI slot on the mainboard. when you remove the cooler, there is a raised square …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-03-31, 07:15
I found a 600mhz Duron to test out this matx/flex atx whatever trash find Asus Socket A board in my CPU stash. I know it works because it came out of an old Compaq with a mobo with badcaps I recapped and died after working for about 1 week, and id swapped a 1ghz athlon thats kicking around into that …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-03-30, 03:24
As promised I have one of those cases, though mine's in mint condition and houses my Epox Super Seven build. The box says ATX-917K and Case 2000. Here's a slightly newer one with a place for a side fan and front USB ports. https://www.newegg.com/beige-maxtop-hivemind-atx-mid-tower/p/N82E16811150027 …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-03-29, 23:49
Going to dig througb my car's trunk to see if a stick or 2 of pc133 is kicking around to test my recent dumpster find
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-03-28, 05:35
Good News: HSF came off no problem. Bad News: Filename 20210327_223149.jpg File size 1.51 MiB Views 835 views
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-03-28, 05:26
Pierre32 wrote on 2021-03-28, 05:19: Bit of panel damage 😁 That's worth a couple of empty drums, at least. Agreed! Case will make its way back in the next load of scrap, I wouldnt mind the damage if it had side panels.
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-03-28, 05:13
As promised
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-03-28, 01:10
Dumped off a truckload of scrap metal and made $150 and brought home the saddest Socket A machine. "Technically" I wasnt supposed to take it but I asked and they said to swap it for a couple empty 55 gallon drums to compensate for the weight. Pics to follow after I chase the spiders out of it
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-03-26, 10:31
Does automotive stuff count? I went guts deep into my 6.9 idi diesel and my dad helped me fix a bunch of things. 1985 and zero computer controls, so pretty ancient.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-03-22, 08:22
I ordered a FX 8120 for $25 to bump up a friends old Phenom ii x 2 am3 setup he built back in the day new. Its a MSI 890 board with am3+ support! He already upgraded it with a gtx 970 and 16gb of ram a few years ago. Not super retro. But I was amazed he was still running a dual core!
Re: Have anyone actually gotten hardware damaged due to using old PSUs?
Posted on 2021-03-21, 08:47
A tale od two PSU's! Just remembered.
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