c0keb0ttle wrote:

Two nice Tseng cards for the collection: […]
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Two nice Tseng cards for the collection:

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1. Tseng ET4000AX - VGA-Sync / Bona Computech 1MB
2. Tseng ET6000 - JATON Video Magic 128 4MB

Nice.... Congrats. 😀

Nvm1 wrote:

I hit the jackpot last week while searching the web and the items arrived today :evil: 1: Asus P5A-B with a PS2/Printerport bra […]
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I hit the jackpot last week while searching the web and the items arrived today 😈
1: Asus P5A-B with a PS2/Printerport bracket missing the PS2 part 😐
2. Gigabyte GA-5AX with AMD K6 233 and cooler
3. Asus P2L97 with a P2 333mhz and some ram
4. Asus P2B-DS with 2x 400mhz P2 and some ram
5. Slotket adapter for all except Tualatins with an unknown cpu on it under a fan and cooler
6. Unknown 486 VLB mobo with a DX33 and 256k cache (and a minorly leaking barrel battery 😵 ) must be salvagable. Has SIS 461 chipset
7. QD-U486DX mobo with a 33mhz 486DX and full cache banks (unknown size). Barrel battery did more damage on this one, but it looks te be only on the surface. Gonna try and rescue this one too. Also has 8mb RAM.
8. Unknown 486 ISA mobo with another 33mhz 486 and 256k cache. Barrel battery just started to show some crystals growing on one side but no damage to the board. This chipset is a SIS-BTQ 401 (never saw this one before)
9. 486-HC-HD motherboard with 128kb cache and unknown RAM size (probably 16mb). CPU is also unknown because it sits under a very odd looking cooler. Board has a Dallis RTC soldered onboard and a VIA chipset. Gonna test it and will solder a socket for a newer or modded dallas RTC on it.
10. Diamond Viper V550 16MB AGP Nvidia Riva TNT in very good looking condition
11. Matrox Mystique MY220P/4l 4MB PCI vga card
12. ATI Rage Fury 128 8MB AGP vga card in a pretty used condition. Lots of dirt on it, missing screw from the backplate and by the looks of it had a hard life.

And all this for €100 shipped... 🤣
Gonna have busy evening testing and cleaning everything! Will post pics asap.

You got some nice parts there....
I have a 16mb V550 PCI in my collection and it is fast for what it is.
And you got a P2B-DS. Those are not cheap you know.
Hope it is in working condition. The one I had was DOA. 🙁

P2L97 - really cool HW. Everyone has i440BX... but LX was never very common and today isn't easy to find. I have two - P2L97-S (SCSI , yay 🤣 ) and P2L-B (AT). Maybe I'll use one of them for win98 build. Both are nice boards, just beware - with older than latest BIOS it locks up when connecting >32GB IDE HDD. And flashing the latest beta BIOS might be tricky using the included Asus flash tool. I don't remember exactly what happened but the board ended up bricked and I had to perform hotflash using uniflash and another MB.

Got myself a trio of free yellowed goodness, 3 old ATX cases, x2 Chieftec Apollo and a unknown Antec, all came with 3,5 floppy drives and some CD/DVD rom drives, which to my surprise are still working 🤣

Also free was this Compaq Socket 370 motherboard which seems to be useless without its proprietary 24pin Compaq psu, and even if I had it, that PSU is only 200watts which won't be enough to install anything beyond a weak pci video card a floppy drive 🤣

Nice find! Did you find it in our nice small country or somewhere else? Also if the 5AX or the P2B-DS is looking for a new home please let me know 😁

Nvm1 wrote:

I hit the jackpot last week while searching the web and the items arrived today 😈 .

copados33 wrote:

Also free was this Compaq Socket 370 motherboard which seems to be useless without its proprietary 24pin Compaq psu, and even if […]
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Also free was this Compaq Socket 370 motherboard which seems to be useless without its proprietary 24pin Compaq psu, and even if I had it, that PSU is only 200watts which won't be enough to install anything beyond a weak pci video card a floppy drive 🤣

You can try modding an ATX extension/20 to 24 pin adapter cable to make a compaq to atx converter

Carlos S. M. wrote:

You can try modding an ATX extension/20 to 24 pin adapter cable to make a compaq to atx converter

From what I have read so far is not that easy, I would need to build a voltage regulator circuit.

You might have to Y some of the conductors, but every voltage required by the Compaq plug is provided via ATX.

Carlos S. M. wrote:

copados33 wrote:

Also free was this Compaq Socket 370 motherboard which seems to be useless without its proprietary 24pin Compaq psu, and even if […]
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Also free was this Compaq Socket 370 motherboard which seems to be useless without its proprietary 24pin Compaq psu, and even if I had it, that PSU is only 200watts which won't be enough to install anything beyond a weak pci video card a floppy drive 🤣

You can try modding an ATX extension/20 to 24 pin adapter cable to make a compaq to atx converter

I recognize that board. in fact I have one in my main retro PC. It's from a Deskpro EN series machine. Mine is currently running a 900MHZ Coppermine, a TNT2 Ultra, 256MB of RAM, and a Sound blaster LIVE Value. Runs well for OEM quality stuff. All on the stock 250 watt. Those power supplys are actually decent all factored.

If you need information on the board refer to the documentation for Deskpro EN series machines. I'll add a link to the PDF when I'm on my desktop.

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Also it's possibly of note that (According to Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs 11th edition) PC Power and Cooling made power supply's up to 450 watt for those proprietary compaq machines. I can try to upload a picture of the exact text if needed. I have had no success in finding one however, then again i didn't look hard.

I actually have a spare 250 watt compaq PSU that I pulled from an Evo 300 series. Message me if youre interested, maybe we can work out a trade for something stupid and worthless 🤣.

Skyscraper wrote:

I own a SuperMicro SUPER S2DGU Slot 2 motherboard that won't post with my Xeon 900 2m 2.8V*, 0.18um Cascades CPUs. The motherboa […]
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I own a SuperMicro SUPER S2DGU Slot 2 motherboard that won't post with my Xeon 900 2m 2.8V*, 0.18um Cascades CPUs. The motherboard has some bad caps but my gut feeling tells me that it isn't the reason for the boards failure to even post.

*I guess there are some VRMs in the cartridge as 0.18um CPUs don't like 2.8V.

I think that the S2DGU do not support Cascades CPUs, at least not the 900 MHz 2M ones with it's current BIOS. I found a decent deal on a full house of the 2M 2.0V version of Tanner family CPUs which is the older 0.25um kind of Slot 2 Xeons and I hope I will have better luck with these.

I don't want to spend time and money on recapping the motherboard until I know that it works as it will be both expensive because there are strict limitations on the size of the caps and there are 40 of them and a real pain to solder as the solder pads are really small and close together.

Seen on the picture are 4x Xeon 500 2M 2.0V and 4x Xeon 550 2M 2.0V. It's the sellers picture but the CPUs should be here in the middle of next week I hope.

Full House of Tanner family CPUs.jpg

There was a thread on SPCR that confirms S2DGU can handle the 700Mhz P3 Xeons. I see no reason the board can't handle the 900Mhz 2.8v Xeons other than bios not allowing them, unless you are on the latest bios.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39793

m1919 wrote:

There was a thread on SPCR that confirms S2DGU can handle the 700Mhz P3 Xeons. I see no reason the board can't handle the 900Mhz 2.8v Xeons other than bios not allowing them, unless you are on the latest bios.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39793

Thanks for the link.

I think I read that thread the last time I tinkered with the SuperMicro board but it could depend on motherboard revision aswell as BIOS revision. I think with the Asus XG-DLS some early board revisions won't run any of the 2.8V CPUs, at least not if you ask Asus while the later revisons do run them but officially only up to 700 MHz (inofficially all 2.8V CPUs work with the later revisons).

Skyscraper wrote:

m1919 wrote:

There was a thread on SPCR that confirms S2DGU can handle the 700Mhz P3 Xeons. I see no reason the board can't handle the 900Mhz 2.8v Xeons other than bios not allowing them, unless you are on the latest bios.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39793

Thanks for the link.

I think I read that thread the last time I tinkered with the SuperMicro board but it could depend on motherboard revision aswell as BIOS revision. I think with the Asus XG-DLS some early board revisions won't run any of the 2.8V CPUs, at least not if you ask Asus while the later revisons do run them but officially only up to 700 MHz (inofficially all 2.8V CPUs work with the later revisons).

Hmm, was not aware early revisions of XG-DLS could not run 2.8v. Both my XG-DLS boards run the 2.8v procs.

copados33 wrote:

Got myself a trio of free yellowed goodness, 3 old ATX cases, x2 Chieftec Apollo and a unknown Antec, all came with 3,5 floppy d […]
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Got myself a trio of free yellowed goodness, 3 old ATX cases, x2 Chieftec Apollo and a unknown Antec, all came with 3,5 floppy drives and some CD/DVD rom drives, which to my surprise are still working 🤣

Also free was this Compaq Socket 370 motherboard which seems to be useless without its proprietary 24pin Compaq psu, and even if I had it, that PSU is only 200watts which won't be enough to install anything beyond a weak pci video card a floppy drive 🤣

Those Chieftec cases look pretty snazzy. Got some pics of the interiors on those?

m1919 wrote:

Hmm, was not aware early revisions of XG-DLS could not run 2.8v. Both my XG-DLS boards run the 2.8v procs.

XG-DLS board revisions older than 1.03 do not support the Xeon 700 2.8V 1M/2M CPU, at least not offically and that is the only 2.8V CPU supported officially by any of the board revisions even if Asus do admit that the 900 MHz 1M/2M version could work as they have marked it as a "?" in the compatibility list.

I don't know if the early boards VRMs don't support 2.8V CPUs at all or if Asus just thinks the VRM circuits are not up to the task.

"Die Pentium III Xeon 700 CPU ( 2,8Vcore ) kann nur genutzt werden wenn
das XG-DLS die Platinen Revision "1.03" und PCBA Nummer "A03" oder höher besitzt."

https://eu-rma.asus.com/support/FAQ/faq084_CPU_Upgrade_I.htm

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

I recognize that board. in fact I have one in my main retro PC. It's from a Deskpro EN series machine. Mine is currently running […]
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I recognize that board. in fact I have one in my main retro PC. It's from a Deskpro EN series machine. Mine is currently running a 900MHZ Coppermine, a TNT2 Ultra, 256MB of RAM, and a Sound blaster LIVE Value. Runs well for OEM quality stuff. All on the stock 250 watt. Those power supplys are actually decent all factored.

If you need information on the board refer to the documentation for Deskpro EN series machines. I'll add a link to the PDF when I'm on my desktop.

[Reserved for link]

Also it's possibly of note that (According to Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs 11th edition) PC Power and Cooling made power supply's up to 450 watt for those proprietary compaq machines. I can try to upload a picture of the exact text if needed. I have had no success in finding one however, then again i didn't look hard.

I actually have a spare 250 watt compaq PSU that I pulled from an Evo 300 series. Message me if youre interested, maybe we can work out a trade for something stupid and worthless 🤣.

Yes, Compaq Deskpro "EN", this one came with a Geforce 256, Sb Live and P3 1ghz, thanks for the offer but I can also have the PSU if I want to, but I decided not to for space saving purposes, although the cables on those PSUs are routed in a way that prevents them to be mounted on retail cases, you need the original Compaq case, also the cables are way too short, this stuff came out of a horizontal baby ATX model, there's also a vertical desktop tower version, which one do you have?

m1919 wrote:

Those Chieftec cases look pretty snazzy. Got some pics of the interiors on those?

I still could not figure out how to mount the HDD on these things, its main features are: a 12x12mm fan mounting hole on the rear, a chassis intrussion switch on the side and screwless detachable extension drive bays, they are very sturdy and even empty weigh a ton.

Bought an Zalman VF 900 CU led
No more overheating, no more ugly noise from OEM cooler on my ATI 9800pro@XT ...

Got this today 😁 The place I got it from has scraped literally tons of old PCs 😠 😢 😢
They still have one storage place full of PCs. So I hope I get lucky.
These items were picked out of many of what they had with them.

Is this retro enough for this thread?
Anyway i bought Nintendo DS Lite for 25$ together with 6 games and charger.

Ordered 3 CPUs today:

Celeron 1100 SL5XU (Coopermine-128, Socket 370)
Athlon XP-M 1500+ AXMH1500FQQ3C (45 watt TDP)
Athlon XP-M 1500+ AXMD1S00FQQ3C (35 watt TDP)

Paid 12 € for the 3 CPUs

keropi wrote:

not retro but for retro use... got a package from Serdaco some days ago and after some soldering: […]
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not retro but for retro use... got a package from Serdaco some days ago and after some soldering:

Very nice. I did not know the last batch of the CHiLL MIDI interface PCBs was blue! Mine are all in green.

Ohhh, I'm dreaming of a General MIDI daughterboard on a blue PCB. That would make a perfect match for my beloved SQ2500...