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Reply 38981 of 52355, by Xicor

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devius wrote on 2021-05-06, 17:33:

You can never have too many CPUs 😆

Bought this from a friend for 25€ + shipping, but before you flip out it's non functional, very dirty and the screen is clearly messed up beyond repair. It also emits a weird smell and some kind of grease is leaking from the damaged portion of the screen. Not sure if I can fix it, but I will try someday.

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It is a beautiful machine, even with all it's faults. Congrats !!!

Reply 38982 of 52355, by Miphee

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Got a working RDRAM board at last. Can't believe I had to wait 2 years for one to pop up here.

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Reply 38985 of 52355, by flupke11

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4*1GB DDR II Corsair, for a mid XP battlestation.

1 Arctic -cooling VGA Silencer, the version that fits the 9700 Pro. I tried getting the heatsink off of my original ATI 9700 pro, but its not so easy to get it off. I'll leave it for the moment. I have another Arctic cooler on my other (Hercules) 9700 Pro, so this one is more of a backup.

1 Hot air station

1 Hakko Soldering station

1 Asrock 774i65GV/DC/AM/ASR, needs partial recap, 2*512 MB ram

1 Geforce 6600GT with bridge

Reply 38986 of 52355, by PD2JK

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You gonna love the hot air station when you have to encounter RoHS solder! Congrats. 😀

Also handy when opening phones and tablets. Did a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and 5 just yesterday.

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Reply 38987 of 52355, by cyclone3d

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PD2JK wrote on 2021-05-07, 21:00:

You gonna love the hot air station when you have to encounter RoHS solder! Congrats. 😀

Also handy when opening phones and tablets. Did a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and 5 just yesterday.

Completely agree. A hot air station and a real soldering station is a gamechanger.

Now you just need an electric vacuum pump powered solder sucker and you will be set.

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I'll be getting a few sound modules that I haven't seen any game tests with anywhere. One of the modules I have only been able to find a couple pictures of... not even a single youtube video or regular review of it anywhere that I could find.

The mfg doesn't even have any documentation for it that I could find. Couldn't even find any ads.

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Reply 38988 of 52355, by flupke11

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cyclone3d wrote on 2021-05-08, 07:32:

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Now you just need an electric vacuum pump powered solder sucker and you will be set.

Enter the Hakko FR801 😀

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I got the hot air and the Hakko soldering iron second hand, but the FR801 is newly bought.

Edit: after a full day of cleaning and arranging (a good husband spots the evil eye before it hits): this is the repair-post:

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Reply 38989 of 52355, by PcBytes

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What's that mobo? I can see 478 and PCI-E made by ASUS in a uATX format, but as far as I could find, the P4GD1 is the only one I found, and that is full ATX.

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Reply 38990 of 52355, by flupke11

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PcBytes wrote on 2021-05-08, 20:10:

What's that mobo? I can see 478 and PCI-E made by ASUS in a uATX format, but as far as I could find, the P4GD1 is the only one I found, and that is full ATX.

P4RD1-MX, it's in bad shape.

Reply 38991 of 52355, by pete8475

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PcBytes wrote on 2021-05-08, 20:10:

What's that mobo? I can see 478 and PCI-E made by ASUS in a uATX format, but as far as I could find, the P4GD1 is the only one I found, and that is full ATX.

Looks like micro atx to me.

Reply 38993 of 52355, by keropi

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mpe wrote on 2021-05-09, 15:54:

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If anyone has a newer BIOS file for the Stealth 24, please share it!

great picks!!!
there was no BIOS update on the diamond website for the Stealth24 or the speedstar pro so the only hope IF a newer bios exists is someone dumping it...

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Reply 38994 of 52355, by PC@LIVE

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Reply 38995 of 52355, by cyclone3d

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imi wrote on 2021-05-06, 22:49:
cyclone3d wrote on 2021-05-06, 22:43:
It is a dual Gameport card. The little box with the knob is for adjusting to work with different speed computers. […]
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MCGA wrote on 2021-05-06, 21:51:

What be that Eliminator Gravis? The thing with the card and dial knob? =O

It is a dual Gameport card. The little box with the knob is for adjusting to work with different speed computers.

There were two styles of adjustable gameport cards. Those with switches or jumpers and those with adjustment potentiometers like the Gravis Eliminator.

They all pretty much became obsolete as the newer gameports are not speed sensitive.

That being said, I have a bunch of Gameport cards, including a few of the Gravis Eliminator cards.

I thought that's more depending on the game wether you need a speed compensating gameport or not?

I used one of these cards back in the day on one of my computers. I don't remember even having to readjust it for different games but that was over 20 years ago so maybe my memory is failing.

I don't actually have one installed in a computer right now.

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Reply 38996 of 52355, by PC@LIVE

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Ordered today a Slot 1 AT motherboard, and a Slot1-SKT370 adapter with Celeron CPU.
Also included is a slot for PS2 and IR USB ports.
The motherboard has SiS chipset, 1 AGP 2X slot, 3 PCI slots and 2 ISA slots.
Integrated audio (crystal chip) should be present, and possibly an AMR modem connection.
I don't think it's a PCChips, but maybe it's PCPartner ?, I have to do a search to identify it exactly, and to look for the manual, if anyone knows what MB is they could kindly tell me make and model (or possibly where to find the manual).
It should ship in a couple of days, and arrive within a week.
The MB is sold as being tested, but I hope it will be functional.

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AMD 286-16 287-10 4MB HD 45MB VGA 256KB
AMD 386DX-40 Intel 387 8MB HD 81MB VGA 256KB
Cyrix 486DLC-40 IIT387-40 8MB VGA 512KB
AMD 5X86-133 16MB VGA VLB CL5428 2MB and many others
AMD K62+ 550 SOYO 5EMA+ and many others
AST Pentium Pro 200 MHz L2 256KB

Reply 38998 of 52355, by dataino.it

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ASEM-THOR-8050

What a case !!

Transparent PSU

Connection on the top

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