Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on Yesterday, 10:45
Nothing for weeks, now. I need to do some recapping for my mental health! 😀
Re: 386 Motherboard Repair
Posted on 2022-05-21, 22:54
I think it would be difficult to repair such a board without having (for example) a ZD-915 station. Without, it could be very tedious and time consuming, and prone to making a mess. Testimonial here! I can confirm that a good soldering station is both a good investment and a good instrument to …
Re: Serial mouse worked only for a day on DOS machine
Posted on 2022-05-15, 22:42
Tried /s/m or /m/s?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-05-15, 14:56
Technically I did this the last weekend, anyways I checked pretty much all my non-in-box mainboards for bulged capacitors and did a re-organisation in the storage to make them more easy to identify Also found few CPUs I forgot in the socket who knows when :D Nice house, fine furniture ;) I usually …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-05-13, 23:06
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Re: PC Chips M912 BIOS update for Am5x86 and Cyrix 5x86
Posted on 2022-05-04, 09:26
This is very good news. Thanks guys! Edit: from my notes back in november 2021: - 5x86 is better on 1995X - 1995 X supports Am5-133 - 5x86 120 (@40mhz) is better than Am5 133 and 160 (40mhz) I didn't test the HD speed. Thought it'll go as fast as the CF allowed... I took notes in a way I do not …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-04-30, 15:27
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/424000117717073920/968325125667688538/20220425_213806.jpg?width=503&height=671 Cleaning a 7950GT and repasting. Put Kryonaut and the thing still idles at 50c.. idiots at nVidia made the reference cooler a 1-slot blower solution, and Foxconn kept that …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-04-30, 08:21
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/424000117717073920/968325125667688538/20220425_213806.jpg?width=503&height=671 Cleaning a 7950GT and repasting. Put Kryonaut and the thing still idles at 50c.. idiots at nVidia made the reference cooler a 1-slot blower solution, and Foxconn kept that …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-07, 14:44
Just bought on ebay. Thinkpad 370c Like new esthetically but turn on display only without battery Battery is beyond dead I presume? If I'm not wrong, you have to leave it 24 hrs connected to power to see if battery recovers are is really just a dumpster thing. Mine had a red led that stayed so, but …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-03, 09:53
Just bought on ebay. Thinkpad 370c Like new esthetically but turn on display only without battery Battery is beyond dead I presume? If I'm not wrong, you have to leave it 24 hrs connected to power to see if battery recovers are is really just a dumpster thing. Mine had a red led that stayed so, but …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-03, 05:55
Bought this lovely Lian Li PC 8N case today, its in good condition and comes with both a blu ray drive and the multi card reader. Comes with left side panel, not shown in pics. s-l1600.jpg s-l1600 (1).jpg s-l1600 (2).jpg Got my mind on putting a Pentium Dual Core (E6800) build into this case since …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-03, 05:49
I can only see 7 bad caps. That's close to boring but easy :) Now, just one that plays difficult to get out is probably going to take half of the time to complete the recap... If I am going to use the board in a build, I'll take no chances and recap all of them. And yes, there's always one that …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-02, 20:48
Got a few boxed Mainboards: Iwill BS100 - early Slot1 BX-based board, with SCSI and the RaidPort-card with a lot of bad caps IwillBS100.jpg Iwill BD100 - eary Slot1 BX - run-of-the-mill, good caps Aopen AX6B: early Slot 1, caps look good Intel VC820: Camino 820 chipset with RDRAM; it came in a …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-02, 20:28
Well the good part is with seperate GPU i saw in OS the device manager does detect 7950 GX2.... It is strange... It may end up being some sort of image outputting problem, ans if i solve that, i will save that nice piece of tech.. I will clean both damn cards and see what that will do for them... …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-02, 12:50
Got this new garbage... The 480 shows this crap... The 7950 GX2 does not have signal at all... At least with another card i can see the OS detects the damn thing.... Overall not happy at all, but got both for 17 euro (shitting included) so cant be too sad about it... Sad part is that good pieces of …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-03-31, 23:08
Cuttoon wrote on 2022-03-31, 19:04: Nexxen wrote on 2022-03-31, 14:24: appiah4 wrote on 2022-03-31, 13:03: I live in Turkey. Baklava! Baklava is Turkish? There are two very angry ethnicities around the corner who would like a word about that. Not what I wrote. I had some when I was young in a …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-03-31, 14:24
appiah4 wrote on 2022-03-31, 13:03: I live in Turkey. Baklava! Ok, that was lame. 😀 The country is big, but is the market for old computers as big?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-03-21, 02:10
I modded my ASUS P5A with a resistor mod today. Here are some photos. I used some double-sided tape and a strip of capton to secure it in place for soldering, then cleaned it up once I was finished. 20220320_180635_resize_52.jpg 20220320_180834_resize_9.jpg 20220320_182209_resize_38.jpg Excuse my …
Re: what projects have you yet to get to?
Posted on 2022-03-20, 12:00
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Re: what projects have you yet to get to?
Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:14
Whoa... lots... Couple that come to mind: - have an transparent acrylic ATX case lying in pieces without a purpose. - have two identical Zalman ZM Reserator 1 towers that are just itching for application to a dual CPU (and maybe dual GPU) setup - possibly in that acrylic case. - SunPC 5x86-on-a- …
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