tokyoracer wrote:

Pretty oldskool card arrived today.

TsengLabs ET3000AF 8-bit ISA:

I wonder if it will work in my 5160...

Nice! I actively collect Tseng Labs cards. My oldest are an ET1000 and an ET2000. I don't have an ET3000 that was actually assembled by them (your card was). It will work in any system with an ISA slot.

Well, had to stop buying as bought a couple of hundred vintage CPUs that will take me 2 months to finish paying. But will be buying more once those bills are cleared 😀

Some one else pointed out that 2 High Voltage caps are missing on the front:

My Card:

Proper 9700 Pro

I don't see any possible way it will boot without those. Im also not sure where i would find those caps. Correct me if I'm wrong but im pretty sure those have something to do with powering the GPU core. My bet is power isn't even getting to the core correctly.

The caps are easy enough to get, and pretty cheap. Soldering them on properly takes practice.

Although the mis-labelling and the missing caps combined would make me walk away.

Bought this Barton. It is a 2600+
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon%2 … A2600DKV4D.html

It's a stepping AQYHA 0409 ... that means production at calender week 9 in 2004.

What i didn't know: Bartons from that time have already a fixed multiplier, even when then L1 bridges are closed...
😒

The T-Bred i have from late2002 / early 2003, has definitely a free multiplier. This was really better cause i was able to overclock 350 MHz to 433MHz without FSB increase.

Found cheap on ebay a Savage4 card. Don't really need it but it was so cheap as to being almost free, and I never used one so why not.

Nice X800, used to have an AGP Sapphire one some years ago and loved it. Reliable, though for some reason only ever seemed to work with Cattles**t 6.12. All other drivers caused weird graphical artifacts in the screen.

The 2600+ I'm all too familiar with aswell. Was my first (own) computer's CPU way back in 2002 in my Packard Bell i-Media 5075. Used the said X800 in that machine too though it was really carrying the rest of the aged hardware. It ran all the Valve games upto L4D2 back in the day aswell even had good FPS results too, albeit with slow load times. Amazing since Steam used to say it wouldn't work at all as my specs were apparently below the minimum requirements 🤣.

SaxxonPike wrote:

No kidding! That card looks sweet. Please let us know how it goes~

Il keep you posted. I'm in the process of moving out right now so it could be a while.

debs3759 wrote:

Nice! I actively collect Tseng Labs cards. My oldest are an ET1000 and an ET2000. I don't have an ET3000 that was actually assembled by them (your card was). It will work in any system with an ISA slot.

Well, had to stop buying as bought a couple of hundred vintage CPUs that will take me 2 months to finish paying. But will be buying more once those bills are cleared 😀

Thanks! I had no idea it was a TsengLabs card until it arrived, I just wanted a VGA solution for my IBM since CGA monitors are gold dust in the UK. And you can forget an EGA solution. I just hope this card supports CGA well enough.

I found an IBM aptiva with a pentium MMX 233 with all it's manuals, it's screen, etc ...

I also found a geforce 256 from asus. I'll make some photos later, but today's best find for me is this ... (wich isn't hardware though)

The floppy version of windows 98 !! It's so rare that there was no dump of those for my country X)

Got some 3dfx cards with problems for parts, something posting so will see.

While not as cool as chose007's stuff, I got his PowerPC Beige G3 from Craigslist for $20. Included 2 keyboards. Hell, just one keyboard is worth that price! Seems to work fine! The missing pram battery is a PITA, I seriously hate those things. But this is a REV 2 motherboard with a rev C rom. I'm quite pleased. Didn't come with a hard drive, but I just grabbed a bog standard ide drive and in 20 minutes I had OS 8.6 on it and running. I might do a build based off this machine. This machine is CLEAN and no signs of yellowing and I have enough parts now to do something nice. Definitely want to get a personality card for it at the bare minimum.

chose007 wrote:

Got some 3dfx cards with problems for parts, something posting so will see.

Would love to get updates on your progress if you restore any of these guys!

chose007 wrote:

Got some 3dfx cards with problems for parts, something posting so will see.

MX chipset Rush cards are awesome. I have one myself and it's a lot nicer for older DOS games then the Alliance chipset versions.

A friend found a GeForce4 4200 Ti. Looks barely used (clean, no dust), box was opened though. Still have driver CD. Got for $5

Finally found an old Gateway 2000 Anykey at a thrift store! Been wanting one of these for years. It's got a PS/2 style connector and is in perfect condition aside from some mild yellowing. Time to mix up a batch of Retrobright...

Bought a Sound Blaster 16 CT2940 with real OPL3 instead of CQM. Really hyped to hear how it sounds.

Just bought an IBM Proprinter II for $1 + $12 shipping. Says it needs work / makes a grinding noise, stops and beeps, and missing the paper advance knob. For $13, I think it's worth the risk.

Just got these 3 NOS cards in the mail today, All Winfast Leadtek Brand 6800 Ultra, 7950GT, GTS250. $19.95 each plus $10 postage.
Can't go wrong for those prices. There are a few goodies left if anyone is interested. https://www.pcmeal.com.au/clearance/page/3.html

Finally got the chance to a CRT monitor I've been looking for.

Being the owner of various Sony BVMs and PVMs for 15khz use, the Sony GDM-FW900 was high on the wanted-list in regards to monitors.

A visit to a local fleamarket also brought some hardware, which is seldom seen in this vintage at least. No expensive cards, but something that I didn't have available, so a deffinate buy at a bargain price. Haven't tried - and initially didn't know what it was for - a Lenten Reborn card, but this will end up in one of the Win98 computers for testing 😀

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Imperious wrote:

Just got these 3 NOS cards in the mail today, All Winfast Leadtek Brand 6800 Ultra, 7950GT, GTS250. $19.95 each plus $10 postage.
Can't go wrong for those prices. There are a few goodies left if anyone is interested. https://www.pcmeal.com.au/clearance/page/3.html

Those are awesome. I'm also trying to grab them in boxes since in a few years time prices for these might blow up, and finding a boxed card for a decent price might prove difficult.

Thanks for the link - unfortunately they will not ship outside of AU 🙁 I would have loved to get some nib cards... I was looking at the leatdek 8800gt, 6800 and the gigabyte hd 4850... 😢