ODwilly wrote:

Looks like the scsi cable is salvagable. I wonder how twisted that poor mobi is 😢

From what I remember, it was covered in dirt and one of the EIDE slots was toast, but it wasn't bad.

If I go back and offer the guy to take it, I'll fully disassemble it and take more than just what I could before anyone noticed.

The RAM's all toast. None of the 6 sticks work, even after testing the slot I was using after every stick.

🙁

cj_reha wrote:

One thing an abandoned, crushed and deserted computer is good for besides parts is photography opportunities 🤣

Any idea what might have happened to that machine? I own a Digital Celebris XL 590 (if that's a twin Pentium could you pull the CPU daughter board from it. That's on the list of rare parts I need for mine) and those cases are solid steel. Not easy to bend. It looks like someone threw it out of there car going 80MPH and it hit a rock when it landed or something.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

One thing an abandoned, crushed and deserted computer is good for besides parts is photography opportunities 🤣

Any idea what might have happened to that machine? I own a Digital Celebris XL 590 (if that's a twin Pentium could you pull the CPU daughter board from it. That's on the list of rare parts I need for mine) and those cases are solid steel. Not easy to bend. It looks like someone threw it out of there car going 80MPH and it hit a rock when it landed or something.

I'm going back soon and will ask the guy if I can have the whole machine and try to fully disassemble it. I believe it's only a single CPU though.

Frankly, seeing how incredibly rusted the whole case is, I doubt you will be able to salvage much functional beyond maybe cables/jumpers...

cj_reha wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

One thing an abandoned, crushed and deserted computer is good for besides parts is photography opportunities 🤣

Any idea what might have happened to that machine? I own a Digital Celebris XL 590 (if that's a twin Pentium could you pull the CPU daughter board from it. That's on the list of rare parts I need for mine) and those cases are solid steel. Not easy to bend. It looks like someone threw it out of there car going 80MPH and it hit a rock when it landed or something.

I'm going back soon and will ask the guy if I can have the whole machine and try to fully disassemble it. I believe it's only a single CPU though.

I can get pictures of mine for reference if you need them. Mine is fairly similar, I wouldn't be surprised if they use the exact same motherboard.
I accidentally damaged the CPU Daughterboard on mine though (Its a board with some capacitors and 2 Sockets on it). Also if you pull the hard drive, get pictures of that connector. I think my Celebris has a socket on its motherboard fitting that general description. I'm almost sure the Celebris XL590 is the workstation version of that Server.

EDIT: Is this what the frontpanel looked like? If so I can confirm it atleast uses the same case as the Celebris XL590

Not dumpster finds,but I got them for free and didn't know where to put this,since I didn't exactly buy them - got them for free 😀

-MSI 845E Max w/ Pentium 4 2.4GHz S478.
-Samsung SP2504C 250GB SATA HDD
-FX5200 w/ TV outputs
-dead Premier LC-C400ATX - replaced with a brand new LC-B350ATX that was a bit better built than this Premier.
-ASUS DRW-1608P3S DVD-RW drive
-2x512 Sycron DDR400 RAM
-ASRock P4i65G w/ Celeron 2GHz S478.
-SATA to Molex adapter (which doesn't look too crappy like the others I've seen.)
-ASUS IDE cables (even the floppy cable is from ASUS,yay)
-BenQ FP71W+ 17" LCD
-ASUS A7V600-X w/ Sempron 2600+

And that's pretty much it. The Premier and the HDD come from a friend's 939 system (uATX,ASUS A8V-VM SE)which I fixed and installed Windows 7 32 bit on(I reused his 80GB WDC drive in it), and the S478 CPUs are both Northwood cores.

I can get pictures of mine for reference if you need them. Mine is fairly similar, I wouldn't be surprised if they use the exact same motherboard.
I accidentally damaged the CPU Daughterboard on mine though (Its a board with some capacitors and 2 Sockets on it). Also if you pull the hard drive, get pictures of that connector. I think my Celebris has a socket on its motherboard fitting that general description. I'm almost sure the Celebris XL590 is the workstation version of that Server.

EDIT: Is this what the frontpanel looked like? If so I can confirm it atleast uses the same case as the Celebris XL590

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Well actually the bezel was gone except for the small part with the logo as shown in the pics.

also, the payout afaik is different. I'll see if anything is salvageable when I go there though 😀

Went back to the place today and quickly saw nothing is salvageable. The motherboard's got a few destroyed slots and is covered in dirt, and the only thing looking mildly salvageable is that CD drive which is welded in the case. Even the SCSI hard drive's board is rusted.

Sad, honestly. 😢

Poor thing. At least you tried. 😵

Did someone run that over with a monster truck ??

It wasn't a dumpster pickup, but a friend of mine was clearning his garage, and he called me when he found all of these old computer stuff.

List:
Power Macintosh 8500/120 (dead, PSU exploded) - Power PC 604 120 mhz, 208 MB RAM (6x 32 MB + 2x 8 MB EDO DIMM), Seagate ST32430N 2 GB SCSI, VRAM maxed out, Apple CD-ROM SCSI
Power Mac G3 B&W (working) - Power PC G3 400 MHz, 640 MB RAM (2x 256 MB + 2x 64 MB PC100), 2x Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST340016A 40 GB, IDE CD-ROM, ATI Rage 128 GL PCI, Adaptec PCI SCSI Controller, Mac OS X 10.3.9
Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet (dead, 1 cap exploded on the motherboard) - Power PC G4 400 MHz, 1.5 GB RAM (3x 512 MB PC133), Seagate U10 ST310212A 10.2 GB + Seagate Barracuda ST340016A 40 GB + Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3120022A 120 GB, LG CD-RW Drive, ATI Rage 128 Pro w/ ADC, Adaptec PCI SCSI Controller
Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 2002 (PSU dead, rest untested) Power PC G4 933 Mhz, 640 MB RAM (512 MB +128 MB PC133), Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3120026A 120 GB, Geforce 2 MX w/ ADC
PC1 (partial) - Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz (Prescott, SL7E4), ASUS P4S800, no RAM, no videocard, no HDD, Soundblaster Audigy 4 SB0610, ALI M5283 PCI SATA Controller, Floppy drive, no CD/DVD Drive, no PSU
PC2 (complete, covers missing) - Pentium 4 2.0 GHz (Northwood, SL66R), ASUS P4B533, 512 MB DDR 266, Geforce 4 MX 440, Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3120022A 120 GB + Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST380021A 80 GB, Soundblaster Live! 5.1 SB0100, Realtek RTL8139D PCI Fast Ethernet Network card, Floppy Drive, Plextor PlexWriter PX-W4824TA + LG DVD Drive, Sycom 300 watt PSU, Windows XP
PC3 (no HDD) - Pentium 4 2.66 GHz (Northwood, SL6SK), ASUS P4P800 Rev 2.0, 512 MB DDR 333, Geforce 4 MX 440-8x, no HDD, Realtek RTL8169S-32 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Network card, Floppy Drive, LG CD-RW Drive, Maxpower 300 watt PSU
Laptop (battery dead + CPU locked to 800 mhz issue) - Fujitsu Amilo M3438G: Pentium M 750 1.86 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 17 inch 1440x900 screen, Geforce Go 6800, Seagate Momentus 5400.4 100 GB SATA, Windows XP
Extras: Power cables, Apple Pro Keyboard, old laptop briefcase

All of this for free, some of these stuff will be used for spares for other of my PCs

cj_reha wrote:

Went back to the place today and quickly saw nothing is salvageable. The motherboard's got a few destroyed slots and is covered in dirt, and the only thing looking mildly salvageable is that CD drive which is welded in the case. Even the SCSI hard drive's board is rusted.

Sad, honestly. 😢

Not only that, the top destroyed socket is the socket for the CPU daughterboard.

Not just found in the trash, but saved from certain death - my uncle's PC from mid 90s, who has decided to discard it and give it to me, knowing about my passion for old hardware. I still remember how I was envious of this PC, which at the time cost very much - counting the CDRW, one of the first models. The motherboard looks like unnamed BX-440 based, perhaps rebranded Asus P2B-F; the processor is a Pentium II 300mhz, 64MB RAM PC I-100, Quantum hard drive 5GB, Matrox Millennium G200 video card, sound card Creative AWE64 - how many hours playing the first Carmageddon! Fortunately, everything seems to work.

I've got 3 machines, this afternoon - 1x Pentium II build, on usual BX-440 - motherboard not branded, it seems something like ASUS P2B-F but without name. The Pentium II found aboard is a 300mhz model.

The 2nd one is a more interesting to me Pentium 100 build, inside a little minitower - I can't see usual S3 VGA, heatsink and more - I'll take some pics later, this night will be one of those lab-nights...

And... the 3rd, nice machine - desktop case, labelled HP Vectra 4/100 - so I'm guessing it's a 486 DX4-100mhz, in good conditions, and fully working. Some SoundBlaster ISA model inside, S3 VGA integrated on motherboard, and in good shape, after all - it boots directly on Windows 98 installed on hard-disk, the OS says that CPU is AMD model, I've to do a good cleaning and take out the heatsink, yet - Here's the pics:

I've seen the same HP old 486 high-priced on Internet, is there any real motivation for that? I'll take care of this, after the restoration it could become a nice retro-station, maybe I'll swap it with my current 100mhz-ish pure DOS build for home retrogaming.

No, brand name computers are actually pretty horrible, even today.
Usually they are well built hardwarewise (but they tend to use risers and purposemade mainboards) but their BIOSes are stripped, compatibility with newer processors is not present (they just released a new model).

Ebayers requesting high prices for these simply hope someone will bite based on the brand.

Just like the Pentium Pro HP Vectra I found, I think the only things worth salvaging from that machine is the CPU, heatsink, RAM, and the Sound Blaster 16. 🙁

Unless you plan to keep in intact and use it, of course.

Kadath wrote:

I've got 3 machines, this afternoon - 1x Pentium II build, on usual BX-440 - motherboard not branded, it seems something like AS […]
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I've got 3 machines, this afternoon - 1x Pentium II build, on usual BX-440 - motherboard not branded, it seems something like ASUS P2B-F but without name. The Pentium II found aboard is a 300mhz model.

The 2nd one is a more interesting to me Pentium 100 build, inside a little minitower - I can't see usual S3 VGA, heatsink and more - I'll take some pics later, this night will be one of those lab-nights...

And... the 3rd, nice machine - desktop case, labelled HP Vectra 4/100 - so I'm guessing it's a 486 DX4-100mhz, in good conditions, and fully working. Some SoundBlaster ISA model inside, S3 VGA integrated on motherboard, and in good shape, after all - it boots directly on Windows 98 installed on hard-disk, the OS says that CPU is AMD model, I've to do a good cleaning and take out the heatsink, yet - Here's the pics:

I've seen the same HP old 486 high-priced on Internet, is there any real motivation for that? I'll take care of this, after the restoration it could become a nice retro-station, maybe I'll swap it with my current 100mhz-ish pure DOS build for home retrogaming.

That BX-440B seems to be made by Atrend. I got a couple Voodoo 2 cards made by that company, didn't know they ever made a motherboard. Don't really know anything else about that board though, never even seen one (not hard to remember, most BX boards have 3 memory slots at the most and most 4-slotted BX boards have their memory slots spaced differently).

Your Pentium 2 system looks like to be made in around 1998. The case is very typical for that year, they seemed to change the position the PSU was mounted in in later cases when systems switched back to using socketed CPUs.

c0keb0ttle wrote:

Just like the Pentium Pro HP Vectra I found, I think the only things worth salvaging from that machine is the CPU, heatsink, RAM, and the Sound Blaster 16. 🙁

Unless you plan to keep in intact and use it, of course.

Yes, it would be a shame to rip it off, as it is in good condition - I'll take it entirely, maybe I'll do some upgrade, if the machine will support. The SoundBlaster is a CT2950, 16 Vibra PnP if I'm right (just too MANY models of this soundcard). BIOS, as you've said, is proprietary - motherboard, fortunately, mounts 'standard' battery, so easily swappable.

Well.... I kind of like that HP 4/100 machine.
HP and IBM are my favorite brands from that era, yet nothing beats a good home build machine.