I got an Intel Pentium PRO 200 from Ebay and it has a piece of silver metal...??
On top of it...
I attached a picture.
Can I take it off?
Do I want to take it off??
I tried to scratch it off with my fingernail.
This is my first post on this site.
Any help would be appreciated 😀
This is thermal TIM sheet, Just gently pick at one edge and tear this off just like you peel a sticker.
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Great Northern aka Canada.
Thank You Very Much 😀
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The PPro I have in my old Compaq two-way compaq server has also that thin sheet on it. So it might be a pull from such a machine.
What do you plan to do with it?
😀
I tried to clean it up with ArctiClean 😀
I have a motherboard that say's SL-60A on it...
I got the motherboard from a friend for free and it's good..
Is it a good motherboard?
It had a 180 in it previously.
https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/S/S … Pro-SL-60A.html any working Socket 8 board is a good board in my book 😀
Main pc: Asus ROG 17. R9 5900HX, RTX 3070m, 16gb ddr4 3200, 1tb NVME.
Retro PC: Soyo P4S Dragon, 3gb ddr 266, 120gb Maxtor, Geforce Fx 5950 Ultra, SB Live! 5.1
Or if you want a link that will be updated when new info is found, go to https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/4633
They will appreciate if you can dump your BIOS, so they can add it, and provide the BIOS string that helps ID boards.
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Thank You Very Much Sir 😀
Thank You Very Much to everyone 😀
Would anyone be interested in seeing a bootup screen picture?
Maybe tomorrow? 😀
ontrca wrote on 2022-05-22, 21:37:Would anyone be interested in seeing a bootup screen picture?
Maybe tomorrow? 😀
Bootup screen will be appreciated for UltimateRetro website, as will a dump of the BIOS
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I would have been here earlier but I was watching a 100-minute expose on Babylon 5. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfKOubWE14 )
Welcome to the Pentium-Pro master race!
Ironically, those thermal pads often worked better than typical heat sink compound (of the time). Tolerances for heatsinks were very loose by today's standards. The pads were often better than goop until the pentium 3 /athalon era when they flipped the die to allow direct exposure.
I also want to echo @debs3759's request for a bios dump, boot images, and proper board pictures.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
luckybob wrote on 2022-05-22, 22:35:I would have been here earlier but I was watching a 100-minute expose on Babylon 5. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfKOubWE14 )
I recently bought the box set. Rather over packed, the box must be 3x the size it needs to be 😀
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I would dump the bios on the NEC 5800 sever coffee machine I bought but not sure anyone would find a Pentium Pro server bios useful, though I might be wrong about that. (I do know its an Intel FX based board)
Dump it.
Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
