bandicoot67 wrote:Was driving to my grumpy old dads joint up in the sticks when i spotted this one. I pulled over and parked up safely to retrieve it. The front panel and case were about fifteen meters apart from each other. You can see the scuff marks on the front panel. It was like some suspect low life bastage human had thrown this innocent PC from a moving vehicle like an unwanted puppy dog, kitten or bandicoot. This kind of shit makes me so angry. If you could see my face right now, it's a face with a lot of anger and rage included! I wish i had caught the disgraceful human who did this in the act. Poor little thing. I may be able to bring it back to life one day soon i hope.
This is actually not as uninteresting at it may first appear.
Sis 620 chipset? Don't see too many of these around! I think that in total, I've probably not come across more then 2 Sis-based s370 motherboards. Both were identical and at least 1 of them had already developed a bulging cap. Iirc mine were SiS 630 s370 ones?
I really disliked those royalty OEM cases from that era, like the Compaq and HP cases from that time. Your case even had some of the io connectors blocked 🤣, which is something that was done in the ss7 and early s370 days. The blocked io connectors are mentioned on the sticker inside the case though.
I tended to junk these cases after having salvaged it for parts and especially the boards, as the boards themselves were not that bad actually.
The fact that it doesn't have an AGP port connector is actually not that much of a problem as back then the AGP and PCI variants of graphics cards had very similar performance. A quick search revealed it's an Acer/AOpen board and it at least works with s370 Celerons, which are actually pretty good CPUs in their own right.
If you decide to junk the case, don't forget to also salvage the sticker inside the case.