Flea markets being closed because of this Covid-19 lockdown situation, I spent a little more time on local classified ads and auction sites, went a little deeper with my searches and found an ad with this photo. Spotted immediately the socket 3 VLB mainboard(on the left) and the sound card from the bottom of the picture. Managed to identify the mainboard, it'a a PC Chips M912 and I was like 90% sure that the sound card is a Sound Blaster Pro 2 CT1600.
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So, I called the seller, it turned out to be just a scrapper of basically everything. I managed to set up a video call with him to show me what he had on those bags... but he had a week signal or a cheap phone, I couldn't identify anything by the labels or anything written on the boards.... Anyway, I'we picked up 5 mainboards, 10 expansion cards and some CPUs. Although I specifically asked him several times to pack all the boards at least in some newspaper or something similar, and he agreed, he just put some cardboard between the mainboards and throw in the rest of the cards and the CPUs on top of the mainboards... in a large cardboard box... 🙁 f@#$ing scrappers...
And here is what I picked up, sorry for the poor quality photos...
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1. PCChips M912 v1.4 with 128 kb real cache + tag - not POSTing, but it shows some life; it beeps with certain memory sticks...
2. FIC 485-VIP-IO2 - this one is completely dead
3. QDI Advance 9 P6V693A/9 - has damaged RAM slots; probably I will throw it out
4. PC Chips/Ampthon M754LMR(???) with "GFXPRO" chipset(Ali Aladdin TNT2) - not tested yet
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5. ECS K7S5A ver: 3.1 - this is in great shape, not even dusty; it works great paired with an Athlon 1100 T-bird
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1. XFX GeForce 8800 GTS - has all of the connection side of the card ripped off. I don't know how I didn't saw that...
2. Palit Geforce4 TI 4200 - it needs a recap, but it's working fine
3. Cardex 9207-04 Tseng ET4000Ax VLB 1Mb - working
4. some Trident TGUI9440AGi 1 Mb VLB - working
5. Matrox Mystique 220 4Mb + Rainbow Runner Studio - the Mystique is working, but the RRS add-on capture card is badly scratched on the back, at least 10 traces are cut...🙁
6. Creative SB PRO 2 CT1600 - yes, indeed it was this card the one from the seller picture; and it's working perfectly! 😀
7. Creative SB32 CT3670 - it was full of mud, but after cleaning and testing it, it turns out to be working, but it picks up noises from the motherboard... At least one cap is broken, right at the end of the ISA slot connector(C141)
8. Creative SB Live! CT4830 - not tested yet, also not an interesting card...
9. BTC 1853L ESS Audiodrive ES1868F - not tested yet
10. DTK PTI-227B(Winbond W83757F) IDE FDD controller card - not tested yet
11. Intel Xeon 3 GHz SL6WB - badly scratched and missing SMD caps
12. Intel Xeon E5506 2,133 GHz SLBF8 - has a few SMDs missing from the bottom
13. Athlon 1100 MHz A1100AMS3B Thunderbird - working fine on the K7S5A mainboard
14. IBM BLUE LIGHTNING DX2 66 MHz - IBM26 486-V666GA - not tested yet, it had a lot of bent pins, but I hope it works...(not in the pictures)
Overall it is not a bad deal for the 65 euros I paid incl. shipping. I hope to recover at least one of the two VLB socket 3 mainboards. Still feel bad for the Rainbow Runner Studio, but anyway I don't have a cable for it...