wrote:X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Can't see attached image, but Xtreme Audio model was a cheap trash card from Creative. Not a good sound card by any definition.
wrote:It powered-up just fine
That's obviously different unit.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
wrote:wrote:It powered-up just fine
That's obviously different unit.
No, it's the same unit, but thanks for thinking that I have so little to do that I'd want to be pointlessly deceptive. Wow.
The volume knob is a spare that I had from a "parts" SC-88, if that's what's throwing you off.
I have been looking for 2-3 years now for a spare lcd+shell for a 55mk2 mobo I have but nothing comes up - I really want a dead unit to fix mine, no point harvesting a working one 😀
if that's what's throwing you off
No, noticeable scratch between PART and INSTRUMENT.
that I have so little to do that I'd want to be pointlessly deceptive
Or seller sent you different unit by mistake.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
wrote:wrote:X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Can't see attached image, but Xtreme Audio model was a cheap trash card from Creative. Not a good sound card by any definition.
Its Xtreme MUSIC not Audio sorry my error, so its a genuine XFi chipsrt card.,
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I guess this is from the early 00's and classifies as retro. A Numark DM1001X mixer with a couple of speakers, 10e from recycling.
wrote:No, noticeable scratch between PART and INSTRUMENT.
Everything OK with you? Frankly I'm a little worried.
Life? Don't talk to me about life.
Some RIMMs, I don't really know why but I want to do a build with RIMMs someday.
1982 to 2001
wrote:I guess this is from the early 00's and classifies as retro. A Numark DM1001X mixer with a couple of speakers, 10e from recycli […]
I guess this is from the early 00's and classifies as retro. A Numark DM1001X mixer with a couple of speakers, 10e from recycling.
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Those were definately around in '98. Keep searching though... banging on corrugated iron induces more of a sense of music than what eminates from that piss poor excuse for a transducer o.0
They originally came with 2 x Numark belt-drives and that mixer. My mate got them for xmas, but in blue (blue DM1001X too)!
My first foray into mixing. Listening to drum&bass through those speakers was pretty rough, in fact might as well drop the 'bass' part of the name. Good for beat-matching 😵
wrote:My first foray into mixing. Listening to drum&bass through those speakers was pretty rough, in fact might as well drop the 'bass' part of the name. Good for beat-matching 😵
There is the very occasional mention of retro music hardware on here. I cut my teeth on a pair of SoundLab DLP-3R belt drives and a crappy Kam mixer. Cash converters jobby. Fortunately I had half decent speakers. And by half decent I mean big but underpowered with low impedance. The impedance set my first amp on fire and the low power led to their own death by fire while the amp laughed like a maniac. I was playing DJ Zinc in the pub last night!
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wrote:No, noticeable scratch between PART and INSTRUMENT.
That "scratch" was a white paint scuff. It came right off with rubbing alcohol.
Thank-you for wasting my time further. Really appreciate it.
My lot of untested cards arrived... I'm pissed. 8 out of 10 are completely dead including the main reasons I purchased aka the GTX 285 and the 7800GS OC agp.
I expected 2 or 3 to be dead but I expected to easily still get at least 6 or 7 working 20-50 dollar GPUs out of my $25 dollar investment. That seller tested these cards and found they were dead so I'm expecting the other 2 that posted to fail there 3D tests. 8 out of 10 is out side of the usual range of failure for a non-recycler sold lot of cards.
The 7800GS is absolutely filthy but looks intact. I'm hoping a good solid cleaning will do the trick for it. I just need to research the proper way to clean GPUs. At least 3 others are missing caps so those might be easily fixed when I get around to getting a proper soldering kit. The 8800GTX artifacts on post so I suspect the RAM is bad, again probably fixable just not as easy. The 8600GT is missing caps and the cooler is mangaled. Might be fixable. The others are visually intact which means either the core on them are dead or they didn't like my testing board (Dell OEM ASUS M2N nForce4 board). So I guess I'll keep them all around for the future.
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wrote:wrote:Unscrew the fan, tear the sticker on the back and then you should be in front to the fan's axis. Add just a little bit of oil or grease to make it work again. Then put back the sticker and re screw it and if you're lucky, the fan should work again
Do this! I put 2 drops of new motor oil in the fan bearing for my PCI ATI Radeon 9100, last summer. Fan still works fine at full speed. No rattle noise anymore either. Dunno how long it'll last but so far almost a year. It definitely works. Or at least extends the life of the fan a while longer.
I have WD40, will that work?
wrote:wrote:wrote:Unscrew the fan, tear the sticker on the back and then you should be in front to the fan's axis. Add just a little bit of oil or grease to make it work again. Then put back the sticker and re screw it and if you're lucky, the fan should work again
Do this! I put 2 drops of new motor oil in the fan bearing for my PCI ATI Radeon 9100, last summer. Fan still works fine at full speed. No rattle noise anymore either. Dunno how long it'll last but so far almost a year. It definitely works. Or at least extends the life of the fan a while longer.
I have WD40, will that work?
WD40 might work for a little bit but it will quickly dry up.
The best thing I have found is full Synthetic motor oil. 5w-20 or 10w-30 works fine. Been using only that for a few years now and have not had to re-oil any fans I have oiled with it.
I even have an old space heater that I got for free that the fan was completely seized up on. After taking the fan apart and cleaning out the original dried up gunk and oiling it with full synthetic motor oil it worked, and has worked fine ever since. That was over 5 years ago.
Found this Turtle Beach Tropez Classic v2.0 on eBay for a song - apparently right after it was listed. Pretty sure nobody else here saw it or else it would have been gone.
The RAM slots look like the alignment pieces are messed up on the bottom of the card, but it should still work fine.
Other than that, it looks pristine.
Anybody have any idea on where to get wavesets to load onto this thing?
The specs say it can take a max of 12MB of RAM. Is that the real limit? Has anybody tried larger than 4MB sticks?
wrote:wrote:wrote:Unscrew the fan, tear the sticker on the back and then you should be in front to the fan's axis. Add just a little bit of oil or grease to make it work again. Then put back the sticker and re screw it and if you're lucky, the fan should work again
Do this! I put 2 drops of new motor oil in the fan bearing for my PCI ATI Radeon 9100, last summer. Fan still works fine at full speed. No rattle noise anymore either. Dunno how long it'll last but so far almost a year. It definitely works. Or at least extends the life of the fan a while longer.
I have WD40, will that work?
Don't ever use wd-40. It's a penetrating oil and will make the problem worse in the long big run as will will eat the grease in the bearings. A better thing to do(if the bearing arnt sealed) is to re grease the bearings. Or just replace them and clean the impeller shaft and a dap of 3n1 oil, bearings for RC cars would work if you get the right size.
Cleaned the 7800GS OC inside and out. Waiting for it to dry completely before trying it. Some of the screws that held the cooler on were rusted and the cooler was full of this black gunk crap I cannot identify. Not good signs.
I'm going to try the bake trick on the two 8800 and the GTX285. The others aren't worth the trouble/waste of thermal paste or need caps first. At least by the time I'm done with all this I should be a master in GPU repair.
Does anybody here have experience baking GPUs?
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That's the nice things about untested lots. You get to test your repairing skills.
wrote:Cleaned the 7800GS OC inside and out. Waiting for it to dry completely before trying it. Some of the screws that held the cooler on were rusted and the cooler was full of this black gunk crap I cannot identify. Not good signs.
I'm going to try the bake trick on the two 8800 and the GTX285. The others aren't worth the trouble/waste of thermal paste or need caps first. At least by the time I'm done with all this I should be a master in GPU repair.
Does anybody here have experience baking GPUs?
Yeah, and it was a bad experience. I tried baking a couple different dead cards and I guess I had the temp up too high because it melted all the plastic bits. The cards weren't really worth anything even if they did work so it wasn't really a loss.
What you really want is a soldering station with a hot air gun. Reflowing using one of those is a piece of cake.
Tried it with some ATi card (long time ago), used the method with aluminum foil and hot air gun, it wasn't showing anything before, after it developed tons of artifacts. The card went to dumpster.
