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Re: The Thousand Spinning Screamer - an all round mad Coppermine bench build.

Posted on 2024-02-17, 10:30

Been a while. I have since gotten some updates to it: - Chieftec 450W PSU (temporary) - Radeon 9800SE AIW 128MB - (removed due to Radeon) InnoDV SAA7131 TV Tuner

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-16, 21:50

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

While not very retro... an ASUS RoG G71G w/ 9800M GS should arrive tomorrow. Quite interesting to see what a mobile 9800 can do. Also the Radeon 9800SE will come along :) It's missing case elements... nothing a spare broken X71S can't provide tho - the case used for the RoG G71G is exactly based …

Re: MSI MS-7366 V3 no post

Posted on 2024-02-16, 21:15

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd add nForce 4 in there as well. I've seen enough dead nF4 boards to be certain of that, both AMD and Intel.

Re: What could this be?

Posted on 2024-02-15, 22:50

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My guess is two P/I-P65UP8 or UP5s, but I'm not fully sure. They'd sure be the kind of monsters you'd expect in such a case.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-15, 19:39

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

acl wrote on 2024-02-15, 18:36: Most of my other systems are kept unassembled and used on a test bench when needed. Same here 🤣, I tend to shuffle thru a lot of boards and somehow ended up with lots of cases. (recent score being a HUEG fulltower Chieftec case that had the most boring HW inside.)

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-15, 14:03

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Scored a Radeon 9800SE AIW 128MB... awaiting its delivery tomorrow 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-14, 00:03

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My recent retro HDD haul for yesterday: - Seagate Medalist 4321 - working, neat shape! One of Seagate's better drives IMO. - Quantum Fireball Plus AS 20GB - also working and as a bonus, has 98SE installed already, and its contents are a time capsule. - Quantum Fireball 630AT 630MB - might be bad as …

Re: Help! Creative Vibra CT4130 EEPROM

Posted on 2024-02-12, 16:27

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

SB0350 PCB, barcode reads SB0358.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-11, 10:20

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Scored a full Chieftec tower. Quick peek shows quite boring stuff - ASUS M2N4-SLI w/ prolly an Athlon 64, ASUS and Lite-ON DVDRW drives, a 450W Chieftec branded Delta PSU (which can likely double as a weapon!), unidentified Gigabyte GPU w/ HDMI, and an unidentified Samsung HDD.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-02-11, 08:17

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not too proud to post my L's - plugged a USB adapter into the header of my MSI MS-5129 (TR5) and must have got it backwards because it let some smoke out: IMG_0641.jpeg I saw one of those poor caps glow white hot before it died. Oh well, thankfully it seems that the only thing affected was the on- …

Re: Compaq Presario 2100 CPU socket difficulty

Posted on 2024-02-11, 08:13

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've seen 370s done this way too. Found out the hard way by killing a 1100MHz Coppermine.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-02-10, 19:52

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did the tally on my recent retro acquisitions and the results are as follows: - 3 out of 5 mainboards working so far Gigabyte 945GM-S2, DTK PRM-27i E0, DFI nF4 Infinity RevB are the winners. ASUS A8N-SLi and ASRock K8Upgrade-nF3 are the losers - not yet sure on the ASRock though, I'l test a …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-10, 18:18

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And we have the second mobo that I got to work from the lot posted above - DTK PRM-27i E0. Test GPU - V3 3000 16MB, TVout version.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-10, 16:24

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BEEG haul: Mobos: - Gigabyte 945GM-S2, P4 531, 2GB DDR2 - DTK PRM-27i E0 440BX, P3 750 skt370 - missing caps - ASUS A8N-SLI - two caps knocked off, need replacing - ASRock K8Upgrade-NF3 - DFI Infinity nF4 Ultra , A64 3200+. GPUs: - ATI 3D Charger PCI 2MB - MSI FX5200 - noname MX4000 128MB (wtf...) - …

Re: Help! Creative Vibra CT4130 EEPROM

Posted on 2024-02-09, 13:27

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Speaking of EEPROMs, anyone happen to have a dump from a retail, non-OEM Audigy 2 ZS? I have a HP OEM Audigy 2 ZS here and would like to be able to use the standard Audigy install CD from the get-go, without any manual installations, and figured I could flash the EEPROM, but couldn't find any Audigy …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-09, 09:58

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nothing very special - an Palit/YUAN/Xpertvision Radeon 9000 64MB. Despite living in Bucharest, I think the seller might be originally from Ukraine, as most of his boards bear that Delta 23 sticker. A recap will be in order by the way - I'm not trusting these Canicon (no you can't lol) caps to live …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-02-08, 00:18

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Currently gutted a Compaq Evo d310v w/ 478 Celeron. Not sure what can I do with the board... 845G chipset, but the SuperIO chip prevents me from replacing the Compaq BIOS. It does have AGP, DDR, as well as onboard Intel LAN and I think it even supports internal speaker for audio output. The thing …

Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 03:27

by PcBytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another one from me: 440BX or LX based Socket 8 mobo. Bring AGP to the Pentium Pro. And I don't mean a slotket, but a whole BX or LX equipped mobo with socket 8 instead of Slot 1.