Help me identify two motherboards...

Posted on 2020-01-21, 20:31

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Hi guys, I need some help identifying the below motherboards, one is a socket 3(?) the second is a super socket 7, as far as I can tell... These are seller pictures and have no other info on them... I've searched the database on stason.org, but with no luck. I guess these are some low-end mainboards …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-15, 21:01

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Got this 19" LCD today for a little more than 20 euros. It's an EIZO FlexScan S1921 from december 2009. It has 15k hours of usage, but hey, it's made in Japan... I really like the stand, it has all the options for rotating, tilting and height adjustment. Since I don't have space for a good CRT, this …

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

Posted on 2020-01-13, 23:16

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Started troubleshooting a not working Sound Blaster PRO 2 CT1600. In a 386 the card sounded like a dial-up modem, in a P100 it was mute. The card couldn't be detected neither at the address 220, nor at 240. Firstly, I replaced a couple of caps, which I thought where bad, but still no luck. So I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-12, 17:14

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Hi guys, If it's sunday, is flea market day. So I went to the local flea market and got these today: 1. An MSI K7D Master-L dual socket A motherboard, it is in a fairly good condition, no blown caps. Now I have to source two compatible Athlon MP CP?U's. I saw on ebay, there are not cheap at all! 2. …

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

Posted on 2020-01-11, 21:21

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That's a great SBC, especially for free! You can run it by plugging it into a PC / molex floppy adapter. See here for how I had mine set up at one point: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=723937#p723937 That was running off of a hard drive power supply that outputs 12v/5v to a molex connector, …

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

Posted on 2020-01-11, 06:33

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Hey, that's great news! I'll give it a try today. Thanks a lot!

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

Posted on 2020-01-10, 23:21

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On the back side it has five of these chips: IS61C256AH-12J. I guess these are the cache chips. I found the manual of the board, have to read it. Thanks a lot for the info!

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2020-01-10, 21:50

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Another great story! And also a nice card... PS: I'we got your PM, but, being a newbie here :-), I can't even reply. I'we got a few things from L. in the past months, I know him only form olx. He is a really nice guy. Actually, I started collecting mostly CPUs for more than 10 years ago, but I had …

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

Posted on 2020-01-10, 21:13

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... PC/104 sound cards are pretty rare and they are priced accordingly when they pop up. Much, much, much easier and cheaper to get an ISA backplane which you will need anyway. I was thinking about a PCMCIA sound card for that PC/104 board, but yes, it could be pricey. So, if I could find an ISA …

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

Posted on 2020-01-10, 20:44

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gdjacobs wrote on 2020-01-10, 16:32: It is a nice find, though. PC/104 and card edge connector. Yes, thanks! I think I also saw a PC/104 card with PCMCIA header/connector on it. I didn't know what was it at that moment, but for sure I will get it... Maybe I could find a sound card for it.

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

Posted on 2020-01-09, 21:39

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This week some of may collegues at work started to throw out(for recycling) some old equipment used for industrial automation and I found this little SBC. It's an Advantech PCA-6145B rev C2 with an Intel 486 DX4 @ 100 MHz. Unfortunately I don't know how to test it to see if it's working. I've read …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2020-01-09, 21:11

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... is forever engraved into every fiber of my body and soul. Have the same feeling about a Cyrix 6x86 PR150... but I wasn't so lucky, the year was 2001... ... Also I still find Intel 4x86 CPU at the local flea market from time to time but they have gotten scarce lately. If you know where to look …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-08, 06:29

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MKT_Gundam wrote on 2020-01-08, 02:30: So guys, i got the chance to buy a cheap Matrox G450. I know, this is weak than G400 but will be a step-up than a g200 and maybe a tnt1/m64? Hi, Phil(philscomputerlab youtube channel) has a video about these matrox cards. Just search on youtube...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-07, 06:11

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dionb wrote on 2020-01-07, 00:53: Very nice price, those Mach32 cards tend to go for more than that alone, and a CT1600 (which is overrated IMHO, but that just makes it more collectible) not far behind. These were bought locally, but on ebay prices are really high. Anyway, it's not a cheap hobby 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-06, 23:19

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Just picked up these goodies, ordered them around Christmas so I can say they where my Christmas presents :-) ASUS_AGP-V3200-16M_Voodoo_Banshee.jpg Asus Voodoo Banshee 16Mb AGP, this will fit nicely in a K6-2 "budget" '99 gaming build... ATI_Mach32_VLB_2Mb.jpg ATI Mach32 VLB 2Mb for my 486DX2-66 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-05, 22:34

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Had some time today to go to the local flea market and I got these: Matrox_G400_32Mb_AGP.jpg A Matrox G400 32Gb AGP card Eicon_Diva_PRO_2.0_ISA_ISDN_modem.jpg An Eicon Diva PRO 2.0 ISA ISDN modem. I bought this because I thought it is some kind of LAN card... Probably I'll keep it just for the …

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Re: Help needed to identify an old IBM cpu/chip

Posted on 2019-12-25, 17:19

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Hey, thanks for the info and CPU World tip! I completely forgot about that site... 😀

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Help needed to identify an old IBM cpu/chip

Posted on 2019-12-25, 14:41

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Hi to all of you! Wish you all a happy Christmas! I need a little bit of help from you identifing an ald IBM cpu, I guess it's some kind of 386, but I couldn't find any specific info. Maybe it's not even a cpu, I can't tell. Here is a picture of it, maybe someone has this in collection, or knows …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-02, 20:38

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As for the sound card pairing, that depends on what you want to do with it and exactly which ESS and Yamaha cards you have. The CT2900 has every MIDI bug out there. so not a good idea regardless. If you have an old ESS 688 with real (or clone) OPL3, that would be lovely for an old non-PnP DOS box, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-01, 20:24

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Hi to all, Today I got some spare time and I went to the local flea market, just to look around, and I found some interesting stuff: geforce2_mx400_pci.jpg A PNY Geforce2 MX400 PCI 64 Mb SDR PCI. I need to replace a capacitor nearby the GPU, otherwise it looks ok. radeon_9200SE_128mb_pci.jpg A …

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