i bought this little retro old gem

i tried to boot it like 3 times and no go, then i moved the card a little bit to the bottom and started to work just fine.
NOTICE HOW THE HEAT of the voltage regulator has changed the blue color on the pcb.... bad design? maybe needs some kind of heatsink glued on the back.

its a gigabyte TNT2 PRO.

An HP LaserJet 5MP locally.

Here's the printer. Good shape.

From above

All the goodies it came with!

Test page

Another test, this time from Windows 3.11. Note the 4,780-something page count!

Windows 95 test page

Installing it in 95. Works perfectly!

Katmai500 wrote:

Grabbed a Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition AGP card. It looks like it will need a thorough cleaning from the seller's photo, but it's tested and working. The "Platinum Edition" moniker always seemed out of place and a bit funny to me. It feels like the start of the era of crazy video card naming. I still remember wanting one of these pretty bad back in 2004.

It looks like it's missing a capacitor right next to the molex connector. Does anyone know the specs on that capacitor so I could source a replacement? 😀

Looked up whats on my card and its marked "47 485". I'm guessing 4.7V and 485 uF?

Munx wrote:

Katmai500 wrote:

Grabbed a Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition AGP card. It looks like it will need a thorough cleaning from the seller's photo, but it's tested and working. The "Platinum Edition" moniker always seemed out of place and a bit funny to me. It feels like the start of the era of crazy video card naming. I still remember wanting one of these pretty bad back in 2004.

It looks like it's missing a capacitor right next to the molex connector. Does anyone know the specs on that capacitor so I could source a replacement? 😀

Looked up whats on my card and its marked "47 485". I'm guessing 4.7V and 485 uF?

P_20180730_200725[1].jpg

I can't find anything about that cap. Maybe it's 47uF.

Munx wrote:

Katmai500 wrote:

Grabbed a Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition AGP card. It looks like it will need a thorough cleaning from the seller's photo, but it's tested and working. The "Platinum Edition" moniker always seemed out of place and a bit funny to me. It feels like the start of the era of crazy video card naming. I still remember wanting one of these pretty bad back in 2004.

It looks like it's missing a capacitor right next to the molex connector. Does anyone know the specs on that capacitor so I could source a replacement? 😀

Looked up whats on my card and its marked "47 485". I'm guessing 4.7V and 485 uF?

P_20180730_200725[1].jpg

Thanks for the quick reply! 😀 Based on that picture it should be the following:
47 uF
j = 6.3V, FK = Panasonic series FK
lot number 485

These should be what I need: https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/315/ABA000 … 1175-947561.pdf

I just need to figure out if it's the 4mm or 5mm diameter cap version. I haven't done much soldering since my undergrad days. So tackling an SMD capacitor should be fun. 🤣

I was correct on the uF, and I thought the 485 was an Ohm measurement.

I have same marking on my X800 PRO for this cap
and some other cards this week 😀

FX5900U - G4 Ti4200
G3 TI200 64MB - FX5950U
X800 PRO - 7800 GS

9600PRO - 9800PRO
G3 Ti200 128MB - SiS 315 64 MB
HD2400 PRO - SiS 6326 - S3 Trio32

2x 6800GT
2x 6800U
2x 6800GT

I picked up this beast 🤣

Designjet 450C

Also got an Ultimate II+ for c64 delivered 😀

These are probably the last bits of hardware I will be buying/restoring until Q4 unless I run into something really enticing (although I have just a few more items still in the mail and in restoration process to share in a day or two)..

Some PCI graphics cards.

• The grand prize here is the Radeon 7500 PCI which is apparently an Alpha compatible card worth quite a few bucks.
• Either the Rage Pro PCI or the Millennium PCI will replace the Virge/DX in my K6-2 Win98 build. Does the Millennium have really significantly better image quality than Rage Pro?

A Radeon 9100 AGP

• To replace the beloved 8500 I traded away for 486 stuff

Some restored hardware that was bought damaged a short while back

• The AWE32 had broken SIMM slots, missing backet, missing regulator and missing/blown caps. It is now near-mint. The CHIPS F64300 VLB card had a broken SDRAM socket that was removed and the module was soldered onto the mainboard.

chose007 wrote:

I have same marking on my X800 PRO for this cap and some other cards this week :-) […]
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I have same marking on my X800 PRO for this cap
and some other cards this week 😀

FX5900U - G4 Ti4200
G3 TI200 64MB - FX5950U
X800 PRO - 7800 GS

9600PRO - 9800PRO
G3 Ti200 128MB - SiS 315 64 MB
HD2400 PRO - SiS 6326 - S3 Trio32

2x 6800GT
2x 6800U
2x 6800GT

😮 that's a sweet spread right there.

Intel486dx33 wrote:

Lucky Star 5A A1 Socket 7 motherboard with pentium 166mhz and 8mb ram. Via chipset. Baby AT ( really small form factor ). 8.75" […]
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Lucky Star 5A A1 Socket 7 motherboard with pentium 166mhz and 8mb ram.
Via chipset.
Baby AT ( really small form factor ).
8.75" x 8.75"

Only 8 MB RAM on a Pentium board? I'm upgrading two of my 486 to 128 MB. Will be able to run Win 95 from a ramdisk 😀

Got this nice lot in the mail today. Got them for a very reasonable price too. 😀

4x STB Velocity 3D (S3 Virge VX 4MB)
Matrox Mystique 4MB
STB Nitro 64V (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446 2MB)
Unusual Looking Tseng ET4000AX (beautiful condition... very old school layout with lots of big components and axial lead tantalums... probably going to explode when I power it on)
Diamond Stealth SE (S3 Trio32 VLB)
8x16MB matching 60ns Toshiba SIMMs
8x matching 60ns Toshiba SIMMs (haven't checked capacity yet... probably 16MB)
2 sets of 4 matching 30pin SIMMs
Some brand new, never used diagnostic cards that look very useful. I have a couple of the standard modern post code readers, but these look like they have a lot more features.
Plus a few other misc items, floppy cables, etc.

Anyone familiar with this ET4000, or any of those diagnostic cards? Also, how is the Trio32 VLB in comparison to other VLB cards?

wasnt that lot on ebay? the tseng card is awesome for isa video. cant wish for a better card. looks like its only 256k, but is trivial to upgrade to 1MB.

the diagnostic cards are dated, but probably functional. a port 80 diag card really can save the day if you have a bad part somewhere.

chose007 wrote:

2x 6800GT
2x 6800U
2x 6800GT

What a collection 😁 That's probably the most geforce 6800 GT/Ultra cards in one place on earth, congratulations!
Will they feature in one of your videos at some point?

A few days ago I got a Sony Vaio SR1K laptop - one of my favourite Sony vaio designs with this nice pretend split design:

And a weird jog dial that works as a scroll wheel sometimes and an application launcher other times:

Specifications:

• 10.4" XGA screen
• P3-500
• Intel 440BX chipset
• 64MB of RAM - via 1 microdimm (2 slots)
• original hard disk with working and clean Windows 2000 installation, with all the sony drivers
• Yamaha DS-XG audio (YMF744 I think?)
• Neomagic 256AV+ with 2.5MB of VRAM - absolutely terrible, but I can't find this model with the ATI chipset, so I'll just not look at the screen
• Working battery (wow)

Running windows 2000 is very painful at 64MB of RAM, especially with the audio and Sony drivers - thankfully I had a 128MB microdimm stored away, apparently they're rare now?

Thermalwrong wrote:

What a collection 😁 That's probably the most geforce 6800 GT/Ultra cards in one place on earth, congratulations!
Will they feature in one of your videos at some point?

A few days ago I got a Sony Vaio SR1K laptop - one of my favourite Sony vaio designs with this nice pretend split design:

This year really lucky for 6800. Many years got almost nothing (not count xxx€ pieces)
I'am awaiting more 6800s but to PCIE for compare. Can do some video battle AGP vs. PCIE. Now in plan is big compare ATi vs. Nvidia top AGP cards. Will see if everything is working.

Btw very nice Vaio. Never seen so old Sony with P3 and this "module" style is very interesting.

luckybob wrote:

wasnt that lot on ebay? the tseng card is awesome for isa video. cant wish for a better card. looks like its only 256k, but is trivial to upgrade to 1MB.

the diagnostic cards are dated, but probably functional. a port 80 diag card really can save the day if you have a bad part somewhere.

Yes it was on eBay. I didn't need the floppy drives so I made a lower offer and then I only had to pay half as much for shipping, so those two factors brought the price down a decent amount.

Frankly, I'm surprised the lot lasted as long as it did because it is full of hardware that Vogoners and other enthusiasts look for. STB Virge VX cards are great, I have one myself already and the compatibility + picture quality are excellent. The ET4000AX is one of the best ISA VGA cards, as you mentioned (this one appears to have 512K installed). VLB cards are highly sought after, especially S3. STB Nitro 64v 2MB is great. Matrox Mystique is uncommon. Plus there are some large matched sets of SIMMs.

It's all in great condition too.

I just looked up the FCC ID for that ET4000AX and it is apparently made by DFI, which is cool. Anyone know why this card has so many ROMs on it? It has two ROMs marked VCO, one XL ROM and one with no label.

2 chips are just for the normal roms. Sometimes it was cheaper/easier to use 2x 8k roms than a single 16k. Now the XL rom is to add CGA compatibility to the card. CGA titles should work perfectly with this vga card.

I was watching that auction, and I thought it was a good deal, but I already have all the items in the lot and didn't need more duplicates.

Just bought an 2mb chipram upgrade for my Amiga500. Included an Gary adaptor. The one I bought seems to be easy to install.

Only need two more things for my 500. Eighter an Wicher500i or IDE adaptor. And then an Kickstart switcher.

brostenen wrote:

Just bought an 2mb chipram upgrade for my Amiga500. Included an Gary adaptor. The one I bought seems to be easy to install.

Only need two more things for my 500. Eighter an Wicher500i or IDE adaptor. And then an Kickstart switcher.

Why not just get an ACA500plus instead?

appiah4 wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Just bought an 2mb chipram upgrade for my Amiga500. Included an Gary adaptor. The one I bought seems to be easy to install.

Only need two more things for my 500. Eighter an Wicher500i or IDE adaptor. And then an Kickstart switcher.

Why not just get an ACA500plus instead?

I don't like external stuff. The Wicher500i is internal, and has an IDE connector, so I can choose whatever storage medium that I want. Finally it has removeable memory. I think the Wicher500i fits me better, having all those chriteria covered.