texterted wrote on 2020-05-31, 10:40:

The fans are pretty much universal for that era of VGA card. Search for "Coral VGA cooler" on the 'bay. […]
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darry wrote on 2020-05-31, 04:12:

texterted wrote on 2020-03-18, 18:14:

Today's project. […]
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Today's project.

A Radeon 9500 vanilla. It has the L shaped memory chip arrangement on the card.
These can, often times, be soft-modded with the Omega drivers, into a full fat 9700 with all the pipelines unlocked.
This was a success with this card and of course, I removed the stock cooler and that bloody die shim! I had to soak that yellow thermal cement they used in WD40 for quite a while before I could remove the shite. WTF?

Anyway, stuck on one of those cheap Chinesium vga coolers on there. They work a treat and are inexpensive. A vast improvement over stock. I'll stick some ram-sinks on if postie ever brings them.

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Thanks for the WD40 suggestion. I previously tried isopropyl alcohol and lighter fluid unsuccessfully . As for those fans, do you have model or description I could use to find one similar to yours or did you just go by the distance between retention clips ?

The fans are pretty much universal for that era of VGA card. Search for "Coral VGA cooler" on the 'bay.

I soaked a piece of kitchen paper towel in the good old WD40, pressed on with a small weight. It was still difficult to remove but I didn't have to resort to a hammer and chisel.

Good luck!

Thank you very much.

mpe wrote on 2020-05-31, 10:32:

Early Diamond Stealth ISA with S3 924 and VRAM.

Put it to basket on eBay when it was £50. Forgot to check it out and eventually got £20! offer from seller which I gladly accepted.

o, very nice :3

appiah4 wrote on 2020-05-31, 10:15:

imi wrote on 2020-05-30, 21:45:

got this nice package from the bay […]
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got this nice package from the bay

míro DC30 and a Terratec Profimedia that is in nicer condition than the one I already had
also two nice MS DOS dome stickers and one of those DS12887 replacements from the same seller :3
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oh yeah, and this Soyo SY-P4 I845PE ISA, P4 ISA board, one of the ISA slots is a bit crushed but I hope it's fine otherwise.
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I need one of those cards in my Terratec collection 🙁

I just realized that the other one I have is not a V2.23 and has the Crystal CS4248 chip instead of the AD1845
so I got both variants of the Maestro 16 now :3

they pop up here and there for cheap, just watch out for them, and don't buy the one that's listed way overpriced just because "ISA soundcard"

I ordered 2 spare 3C905 variant Ethernet cards from Eastern Europe . These things have really gone up in price too .

Scrap lot for $25. Can't really see what all is in it, but I'm sure there might be at least $25 worth of stuff, 🤣. If anything, I can use it for salvaging ports, connectors, SMD components, memory chips, etc.

Lot was listed as:
16 motherboards, 5 hard drives, 41 sticks of RAM,
13 processors, 7 floppy drives, 15 disc drives, 24 other random boards such as GPUs and other random boards.

Edit, oh snap, I spot a MHz display in the pile of add-in cards hahaha. And 3, possibly 4 older mobo's with ISA. Several ISA and AGP cards.

darry wrote on 2020-05-31, 18:00:

I ordered 2 spare 3C905 variant Ethernet cards from Eastern Europe . These things have really gone up in price too .

Just last week, I got 9 PCI ethernet cards locally for $20 AU, and an old swollen cap Athlon 64 (754 pin socket) motherboard and CPU thrown in 😀 It included 4 x 3c905 cards and 4 x Realtek 8139 cards (can't win them all I guess)

So I'm all good for PCI network cards now.

But got really lucky there.

wiretap wrote on 2020-05-31, 20:45:

Edit, oh snap, I spot a MHz display in the pile of add-in cards hahaha. And 3, possibly 4 older mobo's with ISA. Several ISA and AGP cards.

While my inner hardware saviour is screaming at how the boards and cards and just haphazardly stacked on each other, I think you got $25 worth of something there 😀

canthearu wrote on 2020-06-01, 01:37:

wiretap wrote on 2020-05-31, 20:45:

Edit, oh snap, I spot a MHz display in the pile of add-in cards hahaha. And 3, possibly 4 older mobo's with ISA. Several ISA and AGP cards.

While my inner hardware saviour is screaming at how the boards and cards and just haphazardly stacked on each other, I think you got $25 worth of something there 😀

Supposedly the seller is going to individually wrap each component for shipping and use several boxes, so we'll see how it ends up, haha. I have no idea how he's going to ship it across the country for so cheap.. maybe it will end up getting canceled. Who knows.

canthearu wrote on 2020-06-01, 01:35:

Just last week, I got 9 PCI ethernet cards locally for $20 AU, and an old swollen cap Athlon 64 (754 pin socket) motherboard and […]
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darry wrote on 2020-05-31, 18:00:

I ordered 2 spare 3C905 variant Ethernet cards from Eastern Europe . These things have really gone up in price too .

Just last week, I got 9 PCI ethernet cards locally for $20 AU, and an old swollen cap Athlon 64 (754 pin socket) motherboard and CPU thrown in 😀 It included 4 x 3c905 cards and 4 x Realtek 8139 cards (can't win them all I guess)

So I'm all good for PCI network cards now.

But got really lucky there.

Wow, that was a nice deal .

wait that's with shipping?

is the black CRT also included? x3

Just won this Asus P2B-DS auction with a Make Offer deal for $119. (including RAM and CPU's) Now I can build my dually tually with two Upgradeware Slot-T slocket adapters. Going to load the beta BIOS, do the multiplier and voltage mods, then it should be good to go. I only have to modify one of my Upgradeware cards since it needs the 0 ohm resistor moved to enable SMP. Apparently my other is good to go from a previous owner since it is a rev 1.0 but already in the correct position.

Wiretap that is a awesome find. Definitely looking forward to see the dual Tually build

wiretap wrote on 2020-06-01, 01:55:

Just won this Asus P2B-DS auction with a Make Offer deal for $119. (including RAM and CPU's) Now I can build my dually tually wi […]
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Just won this Asus P2B-DS auction with a Make Offer deal for $119. (including RAM and CPU's) Now I can build my dually tually with two Upgradeware Slot-T slocket adapters. Going to load the beta BIOS, do the multiplier and voltage mods, then it should be good to go. I only have to modify one of my Upgradeware cards since it needs the 0 ohm resistor moved to enable SMP. Apparently my other is good to go from a previous owner since it is a rev 1.0 but already in the correct position.

witch rev? If I recall only the latter ones work with two tuallys.

austinham wrote on 2020-06-01, 02:26:

wiretap wrote on 2020-06-01, 01:55:

Just won this Asus P2B-DS auction with a Make Offer deal for $119. (including RAM and CPU's) Now I can build my dually tually wi […]
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Just won this Asus P2B-DS auction with a Make Offer deal for $119. (including RAM and CPU's) Now I can build my dually tually with two Upgradeware Slot-T slocket adapters. Going to load the beta BIOS, do the multiplier and voltage mods, then it should be good to go. I only have to modify one of my Upgradeware cards since it needs the 0 ohm resistor moved to enable SMP. Apparently my other is good to go from a previous owner since it is a rev 1.0 but already in the correct position.

witch rev? If I recall only the latter ones work with two tuallys.

It is a rev 1.06, latest revision. But any of the revisions will work with Tualatins if you do the proper hardware mods and beta bios. There have been tons of people use improper slockets that say something doesn't work because they feed the wrong voltages or don't do the SMP mod.

Technically not a purchase, but an exchange (with a fellow Vogoner and outside of the forum). So other rare parts had to go in the other direction. But this has a new home now:

A few days ago I bought this Compaq Deskpro XE 560

It came in a pretty bad shape, the front plastic is very yellowed.
It has a Pentium 60 MHz SX948, a Conner CP3421 540 Mb HDD and a Sony MPF420-4 FDD.
Unfortunately it came with a non original heatsink, glued directly to the CPU with some kind of super glue or something. Anyway, it fell off, but luckily didn't do any damage to the mainboard.

It has only the 8 Mb of RAM soldered to the board, and no cache memory on the COASt slot.
So far I've cleaned the whole system, I need to change the CMOS battery(unfortunately it's soldered to the mainboard) but for now I'm using an external battery.
With the help of a Compaq Diagnostics/Setup disk(sp1363.exe softpaq) I managed to save the BIOS settings and boot the system with a Win95 startup disk.
I have some issues with the floppy drive, sometimes it doesn't want to read the disk.
So far I couldn't boot it from the hard drive, it has DOS 6.22 and Win95 on it, but the system searches for an SO only on the FDD... If I remove the startup disk, it says something like "Missing operating system..."
Also, I need to find an appropriate heatsink/cooler and a way to attach it to the CPU. It's a LIF socket, so it will be challenging. For now I'm using a 486 heatsink with a 40 mm fan, hold in place only by the thermal paste I applied... It's ok for testing, but not for a permanent solution...
For 45 euros I'm happy with it...

mpe wrote on 2020-06-01, 08:07:

Technically not a purchase, but an exchange (with a fellow Vogoner and outside of the forum). So other rare parts had to go in t […]
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Technically not a purchase, but an exchange (with a fellow Vogoner and outside of the forum). So other rare parts had to go in the other direction. But this has a new home now:

Never seen one with my own eyes. I'd love to get my hands on NexGen one day.

mpe wrote on 2020-06-01, 08:07:

Technically not a purchase, but an exchange (with a fellow Vogoner and outside of the forum). So other rare parts had to go in t […]
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Technically not a purchase, but an exchange (with a fellow Vogoner and outside of the forum). So other rare parts had to go in the other direction. But this has a new home now:

How cool is that? Congratulations on getting a very rare piece of hardware!

Nice arrival today, Turtle Beach Maui Wavetable Card. Comes with a Midi cable and i think its populated with 2x4mb modules as the have 4 stickers on them. Will have to confirm later. Very happy to finally own one of these.

What is it with people finding cards I so badly covet today!

bearking wrote on 2020-06-01, 09:25:

A few days ago I bought this Compaq Deskpro XE 560 Compaq_Deskpro_XE_560.jpg It came in a pretty bad shape, the front plastic is […]
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A few days ago I bought this Compaq Deskpro XE 560
Compaq_Deskpro_XE_560.jpg
It came in a pretty bad shape, the front plastic is very yellowed.
It has a Pentium 60 MHz SX948, a Conner CP3421 540 Mb HDD and a Sony MPF420-4 FDD.
Unfortunately it came with a non original heatsink, glued directly to the CPU with some kind of super glue or something. Anyway, it fell off, but luckily didn't do any damage to the mainboard.
Pentium_60_SX948.jpg
It has only the 8 Mb of RAM soldered to the board, and no cache memory on the COASt slot.
So far I've cleaned the whole system, I need to change the CMOS battery(unfortunately it's soldered to the mainboard) but for now I'm using an external battery.
With the help of a Compaq Diagnostics/Setup disk(sp1363.exe softpaq) I managed to save the BIOS settings and boot the system with a Win95 startup disk.
I have some issues with the floppy drive, sometimes it doesn't want to read the disk.
So far I couldn't boot it from the hard drive, it has DOS 6.22 and Win95 on it, but the system searches for an SO only on the FDD... If I remove the startup disk, it says something like "Missing operating system..."
Also, I need to find an appropriate heatsink/cooler and a way to attach it to the CPU. It's a LIF socket, so it will be challenging. For now I'm using a 486 heatsink with a 40 mm fan, hold in place only by the thermal paste I applied... It's ok for testing, but not for a permanent solution...
For 45 euros I'm happy with it...

Bearking,

Been searching the ebay for long time and this is not among these. Where did you get this Deskpro XE?

Cheers,