Re: crappy old power supplies

Posted on 2022-04-22, 00:50

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by ODwilly

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psu might still be for sale on amazon. i especially like the title of the sole customer review. https://www.amazon.com/Clever-Power-Supply-SPS-500-Silent/dp/B00PE692ZO it was a fantastic power supply for more than a decade. i finally took it out of service because all the fans would continue to …

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Re: crappy old power supplies

Posted on 2022-04-22, 00:48

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by ODwilly

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psu might still be for sale on amazon. i especially like the title of the sole customer review. https://www.amazon.com/Clever-Power-Supply-SPS-500-Silent/dp/B00PE692ZO it was a fantastic power supply for more than a decade. i finally took it out of service because all the fans would continue to …

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

Posted on 2022-04-21, 23:44

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by ODwilly

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After letting the Thinkpad R51 dry out after rescue it is dead. Not boops, doots, just a slow sizziling power noise. EDIT: After further testing it now is fully working and the battery briefly charged enough to not die in the bios if my hand moves from the tiny micro position the charger will charge …

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Re: Socket 5 umc board is it any good?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 11:00

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by ODwilly

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The RTC is socketed which is nice (optional cr 2032 holder you could possibly populate) maybe a upgradable voltage regulator/hestsink? It appears to have a COAST socket, and onboard ide/floppy all of which aren't anything special for a Socket5/7 build but nice to have. Make a fantastic vanilla AT …

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

Posted on 2022-04-20, 07:42

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by ODwilly

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Modded an ABSOLUTELY NO-NAME slotket I got for free. Would only run Mendocino-based Celerons and nothing else. 15 minutes, a wire and lots of patience later, I am running a 1GHz P3 Coppermine (1000/256/133) on my BE6-II with no issues. Here's some photos. I applied some tape on the back to insulate …

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Re: What is this miniature ATX PSU connector called?

Posted on 2022-04-20, 01:20

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by ODwilly

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Is it the Asus HP 479 board? If you search for the motherboard model # or HP name it should come up with an adapter on ebay. I bought one a few years ago.

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Re: Applying thermal paste to die

Posted on 2022-04-18, 11:15

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by ODwilly

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Remove the thermal pad with IPA, make sure the cache chips make contact with the heatsink, small gap use thermal pads. Flush use paste. Repaste a well spread pea on the cpu die of non-conductive paste, add a 40mm fan or good case airflow and it'll work like new unless it's damaged or other issues 😀 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-18, 10:14

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by ODwilly

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My dad spent mass money on 4 300-450 p2/3 rigs with whatever poop GPU's (integrated Rage ii on the Compaq) tnt 2 m64, ect. Back when "we cant go to 1ghz and slots are the new sockets" were the slogans. Later bought a bunch of open box AIW Radeon 7200's in 2001 as they were getting phased out, and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-18, 08:55

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by ODwilly

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Won an ABIT BE6-II for aprox. $50 (225RON, to be exact) which ships tomorrow. Just the mobo, nothing else. Now to decide what path should I go with it. Either 400MHz Deschutes, either a 500 or a 550 Katmai. And a recap is in order, of course. Oooh 550 Katmai has my vote. Such a killer little sweet …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-18, 08:15

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by ODwilly

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Got this for a possible future Socket AM2/3 Windows XP Build. I recently tried making this happen as a sleeper PC in a Netvista case but finding a low power CPU turned out to be a big deal so I grabbed one for the future, just in case. If you find a am2-am3+ board with the core unlocker find a $5 1 …

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

Posted on 2022-04-18, 08:10

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by ODwilly

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I got a MSI KT3 Ultra2 with toast caps and after a recap all that the board was good for was killing CPUs I tried it with. :( Socket A is a pretty tough platform to find a good reliable board for. I have a KM266 mATX board I'm currently using for my Voodoo 3 PC and I hope it doesn't fail on me. I …

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

Posted on 2022-04-18, 07:55

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by ODwilly

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Scoured ebay for a reliable socket 462 mobo. Hoping to find a nib specimen. Does that count as "activity"? Would a recap likely solve the intermittent no start/lock up issues of this Foxconn mobo? Something tells me it's a pipe dream. Watch out that even NIB 462 boards can have toast caps. I bought …

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

Posted on 2022-04-18, 07:49

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by ODwilly

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Got messing around with the R51. Going to drop $30 on maxing out the ram + adding bluetooth and taking it apart for fresh thermal paste + free Pentium M 1.8ghz upgrade from the Celeron. Have a 80gb 7200rpm drive handy, and intend to run Linux Lite in the garage as a handy multimedia/word processor. …

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

Posted on 2022-04-16, 11:23

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by ODwilly

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I accidentally had my Dell Inspiron 7000 hauled off to Goodwill in a big refuse haul last week (sitting on the wrong shelf). Thinkpad 770 OG is being a spoiled brat with a flat cr 2025 I know I need to replace to get full keyboard functionality again. (maybe need to look into a new PSU and rebuiling …

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Re: Dell Dell Dimension 4600 PSU

Posted on 2022-04-10, 09:02

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by ODwilly

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Literally bone stock ATX. Awesome XP systems. A modernish good quality 450watt is overkill for anything you could do with a Dimension 4600. Just make sure the CPU fan is blowing the correct way!

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Re: Poor abused Voodoo 3 3000 PCI ... could use some help saving it

Posted on 2022-04-06, 07:29

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by ODwilly

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If you have any industrial strength solvent, wear gloves and wet a dab on a cloth. Used it on cars very carefully while detailing. Soak and rub the glue for a bit, dry it off and let it settle being careful not to get any in contact with any metal ect. Repeat. Wear gloves.

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

Posted on 2022-03-27, 08:27

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by ODwilly

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Out of curiosity does anyone here have experience with Ark Logic Video cards >? I've been offered a pair of them an Ark 1000PV and a Ark 2000MI, I dont know much if anything about where the Ark based cards sit in regards to DOS or what other cards perform on a similar level. If you look them up …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-03-26, 05:01

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by ODwilly

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A ITX coolermaster case, H170 board, G4460? Pentium CPU, Noctua HSF and a 650 EVGA Gold getting tossed. So far it posts but is covered in sawdust? Dog hair? Who knows what else. I cant remember the last system I found on the side of the road, but Im pretty sure it was a flooded Socket A HP.

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Re: Matrox Millenium G400 not working

Posted on 2022-03-18, 07:37

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by ODwilly

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There is a thread about Matrox G200 cards and maybe G400 around here having dead BIOS's. Some utility or flash or something, in any case can you boot the PC with both video cards in using the S3 card connected to your display? If you have a Video initialization priority in the bios set it to PCI. If …

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Re: oh when will the price of gpus come down?

Posted on 2022-03-17, 04:10

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by ODwilly

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There is a LTT video on that mining P106, check it out if you haven't.

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