Shponglefan wrote on 2024-07-06, 00:43:

The other case, I'm not sure yet. Maybe a Pentium III build? […]
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The other case, I'm not sure yet. Maybe a Pentium III build?

I’m so jealous you can walk into a store and grab retro gear.

It's a numbers game. I've probably done between 5o to 100 visits to thrift stores this year alone.

Rarely is there any hardware worth getting, but once in awhile I get lucky. Mostly I'm just after old computer games.

I think I have one if not two of the "other" here but with a vertical slot silver grille bit. One came with a P4 in it, one was an XP/K7s5A I think, IDK long time back that one came in. Useable with care not super well vented for anything a bit furnacy, so maybe PIII is good.

Yeah the numbers game... I am hitting up yard sales tomorrow, upwards of 20 maybe due to two neighborhood sales, but it's a slim chance I'll even see anything. Generally though each Saturday pays off with some "new" shirts, or bits and pieces for the household, finally found a doorknob I needed to match a stripped out one (oldskool latch type) for an old door last week. So retro stuffs is icing on the cake really.

Found this magnificently ugly beautiful beast at thrift center for 15$, CPU's included!! You think it will post?? 😁

I'll cross some appendages for you, but it looks like it needs to be deep fried in deoxit or something.

Except for quite a lot of grime on the board and ports, I don't see why wouldn't it POST for now.

You might want to look into a future recap though - I see Nichi HM/HN caps right smack from the bad batches, all crowded near the CPU sockets.

It looks just grimy until you get past the 4th PCI down and then there's some gnarly looking corrosion, like maybe the BIOS isn't making contact for one thing.

Picked up this Osborne 1 from Craigslist today for a solid price ($100). By far the oldest in my collection now.

I have no software for it. I am thinking of either getting a set of Osborne software from eBay ($40) or buying a 5.25 drive for one of my other machines and making my own floppies for it. Or going with a GoTek floppy emulator. I am probably going to start by ordering the Osborne software, then see if the drives work, and maybe install the GoTek emulator later. What would you do?

Ultimately I plan on using this machine to SSH into my homelab server by way of Raspberry Pi and a serial connection.

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-07-07, 03:15:

It looks just grimy until you get past the 4th PCI down and then there's some gnarly looking corrosion, like maybe the BIOS isn't making contact for one thing.

Hahah yea it is wicked nasty!, but I still think there's hope for a post . I'm gonna get after it tomorrow with a toothbrush and alcohol ect. 👍 I also don't have 2 socket 370 coolers 🙁

PcBytes wrote on 2024-07-07, 03:11:

Except for quite a lot of grime on the board and ports, I don't see why wouldn't it POST for now.

You might want to look into a future recap though - I see Nichi HM/HN caps right smack from the bad batches, all crowded near the CPU sockets.

Surprisingly the caps all look pretty good, no bulging or leaking, considering the state of the rest of the board. Time to get out the multimeter!

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-07, 06:04:

I also don't have 2 socket 370 coolers 🙁

Socket A coolers also work if you have any of those.

devius wrote on 2024-07-07, 09:49:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-07, 06:04:

I also don't have 2 socket 370 coolers 🙁

Socket A coolers also work if you have any of those.

recently I was also looking for a decent S370 cooler and ofcourse I had some socket-a ones at hand
but I noticed that the retention clip of the athlon coolers is more rigid than the intel ones - it was made to apply more pressure on the cpu for better heat transfer
but AFAIR the socket-a athlon cpus had pads on their 4 corners to protect the die from cracking due to pressure / install of the heatsink
such pads do not exist (or needed) on the intel cpus
so maybe something to consider

keropi wrote on 2024-07-07, 09:53:

recently I was also looking for a decent S370 cooler and ofcourse I had some socket-a ones at hand but I noticed that the retent […]
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devius wrote on 2024-07-07, 09:49:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-07, 06:04:

I also don't have 2 socket 370 coolers 🙁

Socket A coolers also work if you have any of those.

recently I was also looking for a decent S370 cooler and ofcourse I had some socket-a ones at hand
but I noticed that the retention clip of the athlon coolers is more rigid than the intel ones - it was made to apply more pressure on the cpu for better heat transfer
but AFAIR the socket-a athlon cpus had pads on their 4 corners to protect the die from cracking due to pressure / install of the heatsink
such pads do not exist (or needed) on the intel cpus
so maybe something to consider

I make shims from bits of dense foam for this, little square ones that I just stick to the substrate. They pretty much serve the same purpose as the ones on Athlon CPUs, dense foam is pretty easy to have at hand if you do any sort of shipping or store CPUs, but I guess some normal foam would work too.

I guess you could also use the 3M double sided sticky pads but only remove the backing from one side and just cut them to size.

Recent car boot sale scores:

- ABIT NF7-S v2.0 - the RAID variant to my actual NF7 v2. Gets stuck on POST C1C0 regardless whether I have RAM installed or not. Any ideas?

- Luckystar 6BX2/P2 350 SL2S6/Intel 740 AGP/S3 soundcard (literally, the chip reads S3)/6.4GB WD Caviar -POSTs have not tested further

- Sapphire X1950 Pro PCI-E - untested, hope it works as I'd love doing a 478+PCI-E build with an ASRock P4Dual-915GL 😀

First time owner of a SLOT A computer.

devius wrote on 2024-07-07, 09:49:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-07, 06:04:

I also don't have 2 socket 370 coolers 🙁

Socket A coolers also work if you have any of those.

Hmmm, I might have actually. Thanks for the tip!

to3cutter wrote on 2024-07-07, 14:06:

First time owner of a SLOT A computer.

Congratulations 🎉👏! looks fun!

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-07, 15:14:

to3cutter wrote on 2024-07-07, 14:06:

First time owner of a SLOT A computer.

Congratulations 🎉👏! looks fun!

Thx 💪🙌🍻

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-07, 01:53:

Found this magnificently ugly beautiful beast at thrift center for 15$, CPU's included!! You think it will post?? 😁

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Did it post?

zuldan wrote on 2024-07-07, 20:50:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-07, 01:53:

Found this magnificently ugly beautiful beast at thrift center for 15$, CPU's included!! You think it will post?? 😁

Did it post?

Unfortunately no 😂, no beeps or anything. It does power on? And yes that pic is real LoL! To be fair I don't think I have the right/correct psu for the job. Nor did I test the CPU's individually, but even if they were bad I would get a beep I suppose. 🧐 🤔

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-08, 00:17:

zuldan wrote on 2024-07-07, 20:50:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-07, 01:53:

Found this magnificently ugly beautiful beast at thrift center for 15$, CPU's included!! You think it will post?? 😁

Did it post?

Unfortunately no 😂, no beeps or anything. It does power on? And yes that pic is real LoL! To be fair I don't think I have the right/correct psu for the job. Nor did I test the CPU's individually, but even if they were bad I would get a beep I suppose. 🧐 🤔

That's a shame. I don't suppose you have a post code analyzer card?

zuldan wrote on 2024-07-08, 00:21:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-08, 00:17:

zuldan wrote on 2024-07-07, 20:50:

Did it post?

Unfortunately no 😂, no beeps or anything. It does power on? And yes that pic is real LoL! To be fair I don't think I have the right/correct psu for the job. Nor did I test the CPU's individually, but even if they were bad I would get a beep I suppose. 🧐 🤔

That's a shame. I don't suppose you have a post code analyzer card?

** Update, Both CPU's Tested good in another machine**

I do not have any special diagnostic tools unfortunately. 🙁