I've been staring at it for a while and still can't figure out what it is. Maybe that's why do many people passed it up. What is it?

smtkr wrote on 2025-01-23, 03:23:

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-22, 10:21:

Guess I'm closer with each step I take to resto-upgrading my childhood PC 😁

Geforce 3 Ti200, 64MB tho. It's good as it is, given I hardly come across anything else than Geforce 2 and 4. The thing above it is a VGA-HDMI adapter so I can use it on my capture card.

Is that a Palit card? I vaguely remember someone making those purple PCBs, but I can't remember who it was.

Palit indeed. There's a somewhat "rare" sticker on the back that fully says "PALIT DAYTONA Original Board" right around where the VGA port is placed. I'd say it's kinda rare since most purple cards from them used to either have no "Original Board" label at all, or simply have Palit without the Daytona text.

acl wrote on 2025-01-23, 00:12:

...
- Sealed P3 1000/100/Slot1 (i will not keep it sealed forever)
...

Just beware of the "Important Configuration Message".
Once it is unboxed you can't return it!
And according Murphy's law it WILL damage your important any other board and equippment and you WILL loose any warranty.
Unless...you buy one of those Intel boards.
Wait...you already have one of these!?
😉

Wes1262 wrote on 2025-01-22, 08:21:

Found this in a random joblot on FB. Went unnoticed for months. I still haven't received it. I hope it works.

Yes please, tell us what this mysterious fan behind ESD foil belongs to.
Or no, better wait some more and let's have some more guessing here to make it a bit more entertaining.
Curious what ideas people come up with.
(Don't have any idea myself, honestly, other than it beeing some kind of graphics card.)

ChrisK wrote on 2025-01-23, 08:01:

Once it is unboxed you can't return it! And according Murphy's law it WILL damage your important any other board and equippment […]
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Once it is unboxed you can't return it!
And according Murphy's law it WILL damage your important any other board and equippment and you WILL loose any warranty.
Unless...you buy one of those Intel boards.
Wait...you already have one of these!?
😉

And the plagues of Egypt, rivers of blood, locust swarms and days of darkness.
Thank you for warning us Intel.

As a 12 year old, I opened up a lot of old PC cases. One time, there was this thin/flat HP system. Inside was an i960 CPU. Never saw one, so learned about differences between CISC and RISC. At the time, for me the system was completely useless, so I scooped the processor out, and tossed the rest of it. Now, if I search for pictures it was probably an HP 700/RX X-Terminal / Netstation (?)

Years later, I took interest in i960 accelerated hardware. Already have a big ass SCSI RAID controller, but a NIC was missing. So:

acl wrote on 2025-01-23, 08:15:

ChrisK wrote on 2025-01-23, 08:01:

Once it is unboxed you can't return it! And according Murphy's law it WILL damage your important any other board and equippment […]
Show full quote

Once it is unboxed you can't return it!
And according Murphy's law it WILL damage your important any other board and equippment and you WILL loose any warranty.
Unless...you buy one of those Intel boards.
Wait...you already have one of these!?
😉

And the plagues of Egypt, rivers of blood, locust swarms and days of darkness.
Thank you for warning us Intel.

"RETURN THE CPU, OR SUFFER MY CURSE!"

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-23, 12:42:

acl wrote on 2025-01-23, 08:15:

ChrisK wrote on 2025-01-23, 08:01:

Once it is unboxed you can't return it! And according Murphy's law it WILL damage your important any other board and equippment […]
Show full quote

Once it is unboxed you can't return it!
And according Murphy's law it WILL damage your important any other board and equippment and you WILL loose any warranty.
Unless...you buy one of those Intel boards.
Wait...you already have one of these!?
😉

And the plagues of Egypt, rivers of blood, locust swarms and days of darkness.
Thank you for warning us Intel.

"RETURN THE CPU, OR SUFFER MY CURSE!"

Yeah but soon after release you could disable the serial number that marked you and your kin unto the 7th generation... ... unless it went on an Intel board where they "forgot" to put that in the BIOS.

Not exactly today but within the last couple of weeks:

Sellers pic.
Came with a 3.4GHz Northwood and 2x 512MB DDR.
Not that I needed this but it was cheap and it's supporting even Willamettes which I've had no other board for.

And those two:

32MB was advertised as working, 64MB as not working.
At first they behaved odd...

...but after a good cleaning of the larger one (the smaller one was in perfect condition) and on another board they obviously both work just fine.

So everything good this time.

Now I'm thinking about changeing the Riva TNT against one of them in my K6-III+ system.
But not sure if that's a good idea.

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-23, 07:14:

I've been staring at it for a while and still can't figure out what it is. Maybe that's why do many people passed it up. What is it?

it's a

Wes1262 wrote on 2025-01-23, 14:51:

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-23, 07:14:

I've been staring at it for a while and still can't figure out what it is. Maybe that's why do many people passed it up. What is it?

it's a

Spoiler

6800 ultra

I see it now. Just barely. Good eye! 😂

PD2JK wrote on 2025-01-23, 08:41:

Years later, I took interest in i960 accelerated hardware. Already have a big ass SCSI RAID controller, but a NIC was missing. So:

Seen them on RAID cards, but never on a NIC... Nice

Found hiding in a job lot of random stuff...

Wes1262 wrote on 2025-01-23, 14:51:

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-23, 07:14:

I've been staring at it for a while and still can't figure out what it is. Maybe that's why do many people passed it up. What is it?

it's a

Spoiler

6800 ultra

Ah! I got it! I was going to say I haven't looked yet and then post that it was a 6800 Ultra, but when I hit quote it reveals your spoilers in text so... yeah. Definitely a 6800 Ultra.

Any idea if it's PCI-E or AGP? Can't quite make out whether it has an SLI connector or not.

Either way, nice find! 😁

Got myself an interesting one:

A Cyrix MediaGX board with Cx5530 chipset, but which one... it doesn't match with any of the ones on TheRetroWeb. And then there's this:

General Software Inc. Embedded BIOS 4.3 instead of the usual AMI/Award/Phoenix. Inside the BIOS setup, there's an 'About' tab that says this is an evaluation board, so possibly specific to General Software.

Unfortunately only a very limited number of EBIOS modules were compiled for the image on it, so only drives and ROM shadow config can be set, nothing about the integrated devices like SB16.

If I can ever find sources to build my own EBIOS I could have a lot of fun with this. But I haven't been able to so for. So...

After backing up the EEPROM, I flashed it with ECS P5GX-M BIOS, given that the boards appear functionally identical and yes, it works.

Audio is interesting, a very metallic-sounding FM synth, but pretty decent SB16 otherwise, with absolutely no software needed to work in DOS - just set resources in BIOS and point games to it. Haven't been able to test compatibility a lot yet, Civilization failed to produce any audio (old AdLib game, maybe the audio is only listening to 0x220 not 0x388...), Ascendancy failed to run due to failed memory check (60MB free was too much for it 😉 ) and OMF also failed to run without error message. Will try a bit more (including MIDI) tomorrow...

Bought this Bondwell B310 at a thrift store (needs a charger brick and it'll get inspected and repaired before fully testing it).

My ultimate goals are to give the display a major upgrade to an IPS, HDD replaced with flash storage, design or find a sound card that I can use for games and stuff, and above all, use it to write novels.

Bought these items this week locally. Not for Evilbay prices but a nice price.

Roland LAPC-I + MCB-1 (Both boxed)
Roland RAP-10 + MCB-10 + 3 of the 5 install disks.

JvV wrote on 2025-01-24, 08:02:

Bought these items this week locally. Not for Evilbay prices but a nice price.

Roland LAPC-I + MCB-1 (Both boxed)
Roland RAP-10 + MCB-10 + 3 of the 5 install disks.

Ultra lucky. Worth we’ll over $1000.

JvV wrote on 2025-01-24, 08:02:

Bought these items this week locally. Not for Evilbay prices but a nice price.

Roland LAPC-I + MCB-1 (Both boxed)
Roland RAP-10 + MCB-10 + 3 of the 5 install disks.

Ah, I think I spotted those too - but too late of course. Good to see they went to a Vogon 😀

Danggg. Good score. Welcome to the Roland LAPC-I club!

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-24, 09:06:

Danggg. Good score. Welcome to the Roland LAPC-I club!

Thanks! Already had an Roland RAP-10 boxed in my collection. So real Roland lover here, also owner of an MT-32 REV0 and Roland MA-12C speakers.