wrote:After years of searching: […]
After years of searching:
Powerleap PL-K6-III CPU adapter. My Compaq machine is getting the ultimate upgrade, providing it works 😁
If you change those leaking capacitors, it might work...
wrote:If you change those leaking capacitors, it might work...
The picture is in very low res, so I cross my fingers it is just the compression. I haven't received it yet.
I also though at first they were leaking capacitors, but then maybe it's a coil interferring or some visual effect... hopefully.
Clearer picture:
Thanks for posting that picture Scylla. It is most likely the sticker on the capacitor that is making it appear leaking with the heavy compression used.
Bought a new CoolVivaZ1 for $10, got a free 250gb 2.5 ide drive..
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
I bought last Sunday my long lost friend.Behold,THE K7VZA!
Got it for 10 bucks,and someone offered to give me a Sempron 2600,in excange of this board's original Duron 750 chip.I have swapped the BIOS chip due to original not working (Matsonic MS8127C+ BIOS)
Now I have to rule out the BSODs I get from trying to install Windows XP,and I'm good to go.Also,it has 512MB RAM PC133 (1x256 DS PC133 and 2x128 PC133 Single Side)
"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB
wrote:I bought last Sunday my long lost friend.Behold,THE K7VZA!
Got it for 10 bucks,and someone offered to give me a Sempron 2600,in excange of this board's original Duron 750 chip.I have swapped the BIOS chip due to original not working (Matsonic MS8127C+ BIOS)
Now I have to rule out the BSODs I get from trying to install Windows XP,and I'm good to go.Also,it has 512MB RAM PC133 (1x256 DS PC133 and 2x128 PC133 Single Side)
It might not be true, but those capacitors seem to be bad news...
I had a K7VZA back in the day and it definitely needed to be re-capped.
What's wrong with them?They are fine.I had worse situations than that.(Albatron KM-400T-8X,a ton of missing caps,I was lucky to get it at least boot to DOS or something,it was called Modern DOS Machine back when I had it because that was the only thing I could run on it)
"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB
Capacitor rot is a common ailment of machines from that era so even if the board functions fine now, I'd be ready to do a recap at some point because they will go eventually. Knowing that would also cause me to bid lower for motherboards and some other parts built around that time.
What's wrong with them? They are fine.
No they are not fine. On those old ECS boards, even if the caps don't appear to be bad, they definitely are bad... and due to a rather dodgy VRM design, it's extremely likely to short out some MOSFETs if you run it too long with bad caps.
Pretty weird.I had a K7S5A which I used frequently and it didn't die on me,even though it had G-Luxon,"the said so"bad caps.And even VRM MOSFETs didn't pop out.Only thing that annoyed me was it didn't remember CMOS settings.
"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB
wrote:Pretty weird.I had a K7S5A which I used frequently and it didn't die on me,even though it had G-Luxon,"the said so"bad caps.And even VRM MOSFETs didn't pop out.Only thing that annoyed me was it didn't remember CMOS settings.
It hasn't failed doesn't mean that it won't, there is always a few that hold out only to have unexpected problems at the last minute. The best thing you can do for that board is new caps and the other is heatsinks for the vrm. Altogether it shouldn't cost you $20 and it would end up lasting another decade but possibly two if it is done right with quality caps. The reason why caps from that era are so bad is due to the impurities in the water before the electrolyte was added. The end result was that the water evaporated due to a slow electrochemical reaction between the impurities and the water. It doesn't happen all at once but over time the pressure gradually builds till the cap vents.
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
I’d resolved to be content with the hardware I already own but of course I still browse eBay from time to time and was clicking the ‘buy now’ button on this before I realised what was happening:
New in box apparently - I’ll believe it when I see it. But it’s all there and there’s room for one of these in my 386. I haven’t received it yet but just looking at the pictures brings back some very happy memories of getting my first sound card as a kid – it was a Sound Blaster 2.0 but the box and content looks the same.
And this came up for 15 bucks which seemed like a good deal. It’s a Thurstmaster F-16 FCS with throttle and all of the relevant docos, drivers, and adaptors. It even includes the game card which has a little dial for adjusting the speed on newer PC’s. It’s all in great condition and will be good for hardcore flight sims. It’s a freaking big joystick though and feels too big for my hands. And it allows you to plug it in b/w the keyboard and the PC to allow for mapping key strokes to buttons, etc. All pretty involved, my trusty Sidewinder 3D Pro will be more practical for most things.
wrote:And this came up for 15 bucks which seemed like a good deal. It’s a Thurstmaster F-16 FCS with throttle and all of the relevant […]
And this came up for 15 bucks which seemed like a good deal. It’s a Thurstmaster F-16 FCS with throttle and all of the relevant docos, drivers, and adaptors. It even includes the game card which has a little dial for adjusting the speed on newer PC’s. It’s all in great condition and will be good for hardcore flight sims. It’s a freaking big joystick though and feels too big for my hands. And it allows you to plug it in b/w the keyboard and the PC to allow for mapping key strokes to buttons, etc. All pretty involved, my trusty Sidewinder 3D Pro will be more practical for most things.
Nice find, seems like a good set for that price! 😀 If it's not too much to ask, could you perhaps upload the contents of those floppies somewhere, for example at vogonsdrivers.com? I purchased a similar set a couple of weeks ago, but unfortunately it didn't include any manuals or drivers/utilities and they seem a bit hard to find on the internet.
No worries, I'll upload them in the next few days.
Life? Don't talk to me about life.
No *really* hardware.. But very needed for align 5.25 inch drives
A got a really big bunch of them for 15 euro a whole package..
Has the alignment software included and also the disk..
I think your eyes are falling out of your head:
There is also one cleaning disk included and got IBM alignment disks also.. 🤣 🤣 🤣
Some of them where just sealed in box. 😁
~ At least it can do black and white~
that is COOL robin! The OLD drives (pre-486) are usually very heavy and well-constructed, but the late 5.25's tend to be made from sheet metal and lose alignment easily. I've dropped them and ruined them before!
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
My last month buyings:
AST RAMPAGE 286 MEMORY BOARD
TRANTOR SYSTEMS LTD T-100 8 bit ISA SCSI HOST ADAPTER (bought is as spare part, it was really cheap for me)
Just because it was available, a NOB cleaning disk 5 1/4 drives
CPU cooling TIM just for 8 dollars (for 30 grams) (needed it for my next build (the faster win98se build, with athlon xp )
some cache memory for 286 / 386 / 486 boards (was cheap deal, so why not)
TSENG LABS ET 3000 AX / ISA PORT / VGA & EGA
dont know how fast it is, but it isnt a very bad graphics card (i like it because of VGA & EGA support and the included drivers)
NIB WAS STILL SEALED INTEL Above Board Plus 8 Computer Memory Expansion
SPECIAL CHIP FOR USE 8-BIT INCLUDED!!! HAVE PICTURES MADE OF IT.
~ At least it can do black and white~
some cache memory for 286 / 386 / 486 boards (was cheap deal, so why not)
Heh, interesting coincidence, the guy had two lots of those listed... I got the other one. And yeah, the price was certainly right.
I also picked up an IBM model M2 keyboard at the thrift store today. I already have more keyboards than I could ever possibly use, but I couldn't pass on it for $1. Incidentally, that's probably how I ended up with more keyboards than I could ever possibly use...
