Cyrix200+ wrote:

Yes, ABIT BP6, ASUS P2B-D, and many more 😀

It could also be a LX board, might explain the Celerons.

Looks like a Supermicro P6DBE, so it's a BX one.

Found this nice big beige (<== this part is crucial) ATX case. Inside was a 2002 P4 1.6A setup with badcaps. My s754 stuff suddenly has a home:

Cooling may be a problem, though. Might have to find one of those PCI slot blowers.

Summit Direct is a local PC dealer here in Ontario. I remember finding a P75 minitower with their badge a while ago.

The hard drive controller in the security camera DVR at work died, so I salvaged a couple potentially useful bits out of it.

Removable IDE drive bay caddy with a 250GB WD Blue drive inside it. SMART (Via a USB adapter) claims the drive itself is ok, but I don't know how much I'd trust it considering the heavy continuous load it's been under for the past several years. At the very least I can use the bay and caddy in a future vintage build.

IDE to Compact Flash adapter. It has no Master/Slave jumpers on it so I presume it's hard-wired to either Cable Select or Slave (It was on the same IDE channel as the hard drive, which always showed up as Master during the power-on test). I'll have to make a new power cable for it since the current one ends in a proprietary connector. I might need a little help wiring up the new connector though, because according to my multimeter the three ground wires are not connected. I presume they will be when a card is inserted though, correct? If so, then I should be able to just join two of the ground wires together when I replace the connector with a standard Molex plug, right?

As for the rest of the DVR, the electronics that control the cameras still work, it's just not able to record video under its own power anymore. This is no real big deal though since I can set it up to stream the video via LAN to another system for recording.

Not a dumpster find per say, but according to the lady I just picked this up from this 1995 Packard Bell 812CD was headed for the scrapper until she googled it and saw my youtube video on the other one I pulled out of the garbage a while back. She got in contact with me earlier in the week and I just went to go meet her today since she also happened to live in the same area! 😁

Can't believe it, this is just another example of how these computers find me rather than I find them. 🤣

The computer came with the keyboard, monitor, speakers, speaker power adapter and surge protector. She also said if she finds the mouse she will let me know. 😁

Judging by the screen saver I'd say it was last used in 1999. 🤣

Found an Acer G246HL 24" fullHD monitor. Nothing too exiting, but works fine as my secondary monitor. Main monitor is also 24", and secondary was 19" before this.

Aideka wrote:

Found an Acer G246HL 24" fullHD monitor. Nothing too exiting, but works fine as my secondary monitor. Main monitor is also 24", and secondary was 19" before this.

Who throws out a 24" monitor?

And it sounds like it's time for you to try out triple monitor

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Aideka wrote:

Found an Acer G246HL 24" fullHD monitor. Nothing too exiting, but works fine as my secondary monitor. Main monitor is also 24", and secondary was 19" before this.

Who throws out a 24" monitor?

And it sounds like it's time for you to try out triple monitor

I kinda have a triple monitor setup already, one "monitor" is a 42" TV, but that is on a separate table. My computing table is so small that I can't fit 3 monitors here no matter what. That 42" TV was a dumpster find too, by the way, only problem is that it's missing the stand, so I just put rubber pieces under it so it doesn't move around the table, and put it at a slight angle against the wall 😁.

Aideka wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Aideka wrote:

Found an Acer G246HL 24" fullHD monitor. Nothing too exiting, but works fine as my secondary monitor. Main monitor is also 24", and secondary was 19" before this.

Who throws out a 24" monitor?

And it sounds like it's time for you to try out triple monitor

I kinda have a triple monitor setup already, one "monitor" is a 42" TV, but that is on a separate table. My computing table is so small that I can't fit 3 monitors here no matter what. That 42" TV was a dumpster find too, by the way, only problem is that it's missing the stand, so I just put rubber pieces under it so it doesn't move around the table, and put it at a slight angle against the wall 😁.

You can buy universal stands that screw into the vesa mount.

I know about the stands, but locally they cost like 70€ a piece. That is somewhere around 70€ more than I would want to pay for a stand I don't really need 😁. I do have a wallmount for the TV, but it's old and heavy, and my walls aren't exactly great, being made of drywall.

Aideka wrote:

I know about the stands, but locally they cost like 70€ a piece. That is somewhere around 70€ more than I would want to pay for a stand I don't really need 😁. I do have a wallmount for the TV, but it's old and heavy, and my walls aren't exactly great, being made of drywall.

Holy sh*t, that's a ripoff. I swear i've seen them for 20-30 USD online

Got this setup from craigslist for free:

My very first new case I ever had was this case for Xmas 2001. I happily put my Asus P3B-F and P2-450 (@600) and it was a very happy xmas.

Now I have the case again. Inside was a 1.2ghz AMD chip in an MSI K7T turbo2 with blown caps. A diamond viper 2, 10/100 3com and some ess pci modem.

Well worth it imho!

I was tasked to recycle all my family's computers they've had since the turn of the millennium. One of the Compaq systems apparently has a K6-2/400. Pretty neat stuff. I haven't cracked them open, but once I do, I'll post some pictures. There's also a 486 tower in there somewhere that's had something sticky spilled all over the front. Yuck.

magic eraser might help that

Well i got some goodies.
First i bought for equivalent of US$5 this junk 286 motherboard, one Trident TVGA8900D and one ISA Serial,Floppy,IDE and Parallel port controller.
I have 0 hope of salvaging it because it seems to be missing a lot of ICs(maybe ram chips) and there is no information about the board, and it seems to have a propietary power connector.

I also got in a lot of AGP cards one TNT2(it isn't on the pic because i'm currently removing all corrosion and cleaning the board) , TNT2 M64, Voodoo 3 3000(it need to be cleaned and the d sub connector has a broken thing that i forgot the name that you screw the cable in, and i will probably add one 40mm to help cool this one)

I also got this celeron 333 to pair with the TNT2 M64.

And the 286 Motherboard i took a lot of pictures but i didn't bother posting here so if you wanna see more i have it on imgur http://imgur.com/a/P0OZ6

.legaCy wrote:

Well i got some goodies. First i bought for equivalent of US$5 this junk 286 motherboard, one Trident TVGA8900D and one ISA Seri […]
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Well i got some goodies.
First i bought for equivalent of US$5 this junk 286 motherboard, one Trident TVGA8900D and one ISA Serial,Floppy,IDE and Parallel port controller.
I have 0 hope of salvaging it because it seems to be missing a lot of ICs(maybe ram chips) and there is no information about the board, and it seems to have a propietary power connector.

I also got in a lot of AGP cards one TNT2(it isn't on the pic because i'm currently removing all corrosion and cleaning the board) , TNT2 M64, Voodoo 3 3000(it need to be cleaned and the d sub connector has a broken thing that i forgot the name that you screw the cable in, and i will probably add one 40mm to help cool this one)

I also got this celeron 333 to pair with the TNT2 M64.

And the 286 Motherboard i took a lot of pictures but i didn't bother posting here so if you wanna see more i have it on imgur http://imgur.com/a/P0OZ6

Toss that PoS Trident. It's literally useless. It gets 5FPS in DOOM. It will bottleneck a 386 🤣

It can be used on an XT PC ^^

There are far worse cards such as Oak video card. They could litterally slow down an 8088 😮

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Toss that PoS Trident. It's literally useless. It gets 5FPS in DOOM. It will bottleneck a 386 🤣

Why? it can be used on a 286 or 8086, and also can be use a test card.

.legaCy wrote:

Well i got some goodies. First i bought for equivalent of US$5 this junk 286 motherboard, one Trident TVGA8900D and one ISA Seri […]
Show full quote

Well i got some goodies.
First i bought for equivalent of US$5 this junk 286 motherboard, one Trident TVGA8900D and one ISA Serial,Floppy,IDE and Parallel port controller.
I have 0 hope of salvaging it because it seems to be missing a lot of ICs(maybe ram chips) and there is no information about the board, and it seems to have a propietary power connector.
[snip]
I also got in a lot of AGP cards one TNT2(it isn't on the pic because i'm currently removing all corrosion and cleaning the board) , TNT2 M64, Voodoo 3 3000(it need to be cleaned and the d sub connector has a broken thing that i forgot the name that you screw the cable in, and i will probably add one 40mm to help cool this one)
[snip]

I also got this celeron 333 to pair with the TNT2 M64.
[snip]

And the 286 Motherboard i took a lot of pictures but i didn't bother posting here so if you wanna see more i have it on imgur http://imgur.com/a/P0OZ6

pls fix ur photos my scroll wheel just ran a marathon

.legaCy wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Toss that PoS Trident. It's literally useless. It gets 5FPS in DOOM. It will bottleneck a 386 🤣

Why? it can be used on a 286 or 8086, and also can be use a test card.

I thought most 286 machines lacked 16-bit ISA slots?

I would also never use such an unreliable brand of video cards as a test card. I would use something with a better reputation.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

.legaCy wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Toss that PoS Trident. It's literally useless. It gets 5FPS in DOOM. It will bottleneck a 386 🤣

Why? it can be used on a 286 or 8086, and also can be use a test card.

I thought most 286 machines lacked 16-bit ISA slots?

I would also never use such an unreliable brand of video cards as a test card. I would use something with a better reputation.

I haven't seen any 286 machines with just 8 bit ISA slots. Hell, even the IBM AT had 16 bit slots.

Also, in my book I do not toss anything that old that still works. Doesn't matter if it's a crappy brand like Trident. In fact their 8900 chipsets could be used in XT machines with only 8 bit slots.