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Re: Free parts for cost of postage?

Posted on 2020-09-17, 02:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have had the same problem some time ago . I was in a hurry, so I donated everything in bulk to a local thrift store . I hope at least some of it found a home . Conversely, a few years ago, there was a number of individually packaged ISA/PCI cards as well as some motherboards at another local …

Re: Free parts for cost of postage?

Posted on 2020-09-17, 02:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks--I have seen this thread before but did'nt want to crash in on liqmat's game

Re: Free parts for cost of postage?

Posted on 2020-09-17, 02:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks, it's weird but just thinking about getting rid of any of my stuff gives me a mild anxiety attack. Even though i never use it any more and really want it gone.

Re: Free parts for cost of postage?

Posted on 2020-09-17, 01:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thats acceptable. As long as it is legit just postage and not overpriced postage to try to profit through a loophole. Thanks, no loopholes. and only cost of postage. trying to decide if it's worth the hassle of packing them up to ship or not. I'll post back if I decide to do it. I live in East …

Free parts for cost of postage?

Posted on 2020-09-17, 01:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is it ok to give stuff away here with the understanding that the recipient pays only for actual cost of postage.? I have some motherboards and other parts that I would like to see put to use but really don't want to deal with Ebay and all that. Nothing real rare or special but someone might use them …

Re: The VOGONS Experience

Posted on 2020-07-28, 17:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My experience has been a little different. I am 66 years old and at one time or another had most of these old machines. But I would just upgrade and move on, never really thought much about old computers. Then about 4 or 5 years ago I came across a huge stack of old computers in my local thrift …

Re: Socket 423 problem--please help if you can

Posted on 2020-07-27, 23:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well some of the comments on here led me to try a bios update---looking at you dionb thank you--and after moving to P14 bios the 1.9 is working well on all boards. It's good to have other people give input when you are stumped. problem solved

Re: Socket 423 problem--please help if you can

Posted on 2020-07-27, 21:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey, thanks for all the help and suggestions. from everyone. Meljor thanks for the link . I have found some other old posts mainly from Dell support sight that upgrading to the willamette 1.9 was problematic. Strangely enough Dell was recommending either the 1.8 or 2.0 as being compatible upgrades …

Re: Socket 423 problem--please help if you can

Posted on 2020-07-27, 13:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So, I've reset the cmos on both boards that have the lower clocked processors. I have tried several different AGP video cards plus a couple of PCI cards. I have switched around several different RDRAM combinations and tried a couple of different power supplies. The 1.9 cpu refuses to boot in any …

Re: Socket 423 problem--please help if you can

Posted on 2020-07-27, 12:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, I was hoping for some help with troubleshooting this problem. I did clear the cmos to see if it would somehow find the cpu but no luck. But what else is there to try? I mean take the 1.9 processor for instance, it works fine in it's original board but the two other boards refuse to boot with …

Socket 423 problem--please help if you can

Posted on 2020-07-27, 02:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello everyone, I am the proud owner of 3 socket 423 motherboards. I really can't explain how this came about it just sort of happened. Anyway 2 of the boards are intel and one is a gateway oem board. They each have a different willamette cpu.. a 1.7 , a 1.8 and a 1.9. All the boards work very well …

Re: Dell Dimension 4100, floppy doesn't work

Posted on 2020-03-05, 21:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I went through this with a 440lx board a couple of days ago. Absolutely could not get that drive to work. Finally went through the bios setup line by line and there were 3 different places on 3 different pages referring to to the diskette drive, one of which I had overlooked. Old computers are …

Re: Compaq socket 370 board problem. Noob alert.

Posted on 2020-03-04, 01:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can't help with your problem but in defense of the seller, who is not me, a year or so ago I sold an old Matsonic slot 1 board with a p2 400 and ram on ebay. I had used the board for a while and it worked perfectly. Had it playing games the night before I shipped it. But sure enough the buyer …

Re: TNT2 M64 on Super 7 system - Worth it?

Posted on 2020-03-04, 01:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had an agp banshee on my skt 7 but tried a tnt2 m64 and like it better for win 98se

Re: AM2 Motherboards with AGP Slots

Posted on 2020-03-03, 12:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have the Biostar K8M800 Micro AM2 board. Bought it new back in the day from Newegg as a budget computer for my son. Still works great today running Linux Mint with a Athlon 64 x2 4200 cpu and Ati 1650 agp card.

Re: Dell Optiplex GX150 problems --Help Me Please

Posted on 2020-03-03, 12:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks everybody, but the old board now refuses to boot at all. I've got other boards to play with and this one is not worth the time or money so into the recycle in it goes.

Dell Optiplex GX150 problems --Help Me Please

Posted on 2020-03-02, 22:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dell Optiplex GX150 Intel 815e socket 370 p3 1000 fsb 133 512 mb ram I know it's just an old Dell but this board is making me crazy. I bought the computer at a thrift store cheap and it worked great but the small form factor case was crap. So I relocated the board to an old desktop case and it …

Re: On "time-accuracy," and whether it's worth it.

Posted on 2019-11-30, 21:20

in Milliways

in Milliways

Isn't it weird though how you can get so attached to an old computer. when you step back and look at it you realize that you hardly ever use it but it just gives you a happy feeling just looking at it. my problem is I get this feeling about most all of them and usually regret it eventually when I do …

Re: On "time-accuracy," and whether it's worth it.

Posted on 2019-11-29, 01:13

in Milliways

in Milliways

It seems that a lot of people here start out to build one retro computer and before you know what happened you are a hoarder, buried in old computers and stuff. But this is no different than many other hobbies where people get carried away and accumulate too much stuff. As for period correct I …

Re: Gateway AMD K7 Winter Holiday Build

Posted on 2019-11-24, 22:53

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I also have this case with a socket 423 and 1.8 willamette. I like it a lot. Oh also windows ME

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