beautiful..
1| 386DX40
2| P200mmx, Voodoo 1
3| PIII-450, Voodoo 3 3000
Got this sweet beauty. For a change not broken. But I've got some plans with it.
These Blue PCBs are really nice! Congrats.
Searching anything Nexgen, PM me if you have one. Also ATI Rage 128 PCI cards.
schmatzler wrote on 2026-02-25, 13:12:And it was not properly wiped, leaving behind a fully preserved OS/2 install with presentations, spreadsheets, Word documents and ancient software, frozen in time somewhere around 1999.
Please don't arrest me. 😀
Any chemistry programs in there or just office apps?
Collector of old computers, hardware, and software
I finally have a version of intel's great embarrassment. Well, beyond the most recent ones. And the government bailout. Actually, intel seems to not be doing too well...
Anyways, Itanium.
It's a 9540, so nothing too spectacular. But it's still a nice addition to my CPU collection.
Got this for my KG7-RAID. XT flashed X850Pro. Unfortunately doesn't do XTPE.
"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB
BetaC wrote on 2026-02-25, 18:20:I finally have a version of intel's great embarrassment. Well, beyond the most recent ones. And the government bailout. Actually […]
I finally have a version of intel's great embarrassment. Well, beyond the most recent ones. And the government bailout. Actually, intel seems to not be doing too well...
Anyways, Itanium.
It's a 9540, so nothing too spectacular. But it's still a nice addition to my CPU collection.
I had a few of them in my collection but I have never seen a running Itanium system sadly.
Searching anything Nexgen, PM me if you have one. Also ATI Rage 128 PCI cards.
In your humbled and crumbled opinions, would it be worth the 3-4 hour round trip to pick these up? Compaq Portable II and IBM 5153 monitor...for £75.
giantenemycat wrote on 2026-02-25, 22:17:In your humbled and crumbled opinions, would it be worth the 3-4 hour round trip to pick these up? Compaq Portable II and IBM 5153 monitor...for £75.
Yes, if you plan correctly in order to do some sight seeing and a good meal in between.
Make it the cherry on top of your journey.
PC#1 Pentium 233 MMX - 98SE
PC#2 PIII-1Ghz - 98SE/W2K
- "One hates the specialty unobtainium parts, the other laughs in greed listing them under a ridiculous price" - kotel studios
- Bare metal ist krieg.
giantenemycat wrote on 2026-02-25, 22:17:In your humbled and crumbled opinions, would it be worth the 3-4 hour round trip to pick these up? Compaq Portable II and IBM 5153 monitor...for £75.
They look pretty rough, but... as long as it isn't expensive or dangerous for you to travel that distance right now I don't think it's a bad deal if the monitor isn't totally dead or worn out. I'm not that familiar with the Portable II but they seem to be fairly valuable, so even if it is all a bust and nothing works and you don't have the time\experience to fix it all then they are at the very least worth this much as-is to someone who knows how to do the repairs.
Make sure to ask ahead of time if they have anything else if you're making the trip. 😀
BetaC wrote on 2026-02-25, 18:20:I finally have a version of intel's great embarrassment. Well, beyond the most recent ones. And the government bailout. Actually […]
I finally have a version of intel's great embarrassment. Well, beyond the most recent ones. And the government bailout. Actually, intel seems to not be doing too well...
Anyways, Itanium.
It's a 9540, so nothing too spectacular. But it's still a nice addition to my CPU collection.
Nice. Back in the Win2k days there was a version for Itanium processors...and I always wanted to tinker with one with win2k.....unfortunately the project never took off.
If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.
Ozzuneoj wrote on 2026-02-25, 22:27:giantenemycat wrote on 2026-02-25, 22:17:In your humbled and crumbled opinions, would it be worth the 3-4 hour round trip to pick these up? Compaq Portable II and IBM 5153 monitor...for £75.
They look pretty rough, but... as long as it isn't expensive or dangerous for you to travel that distance right now I don't think it's a bad deal if the monitor isn't totally dead or worn out. I'm not that familiar with the Portable II but they seem to be fairly valuable, so even if it is all a bust and nothing works and you don't have the time\experience to fix it all then they are at the very least worth this much as-is to someone who knows how to do the repairs.
Make sure to ask ahead of time if they have anything else if you're making the trip. 😀
Apparently it's all working...we'll see about that. But yeah, still worth having even as a curio if not. Already asked if they had any other vintage computer bits, and they showed me a DMG Gameboy 🤣 (I suppose similar vintage, but not quite what I'm interested in). From what I can gather from their other listings, their grandad recently passed away. So must have been his as well, and everything must go.
Lots of nice stuff still apparently stored away and slowly popping up... Guess I need to look locally... never know what you might find..
Minutemanqvs wrote on 2026-02-25, 20:12:BetaC wrote on 2026-02-25, 18:20:I finally have a version of intel's great embarrassment. Well, beyond the most recent ones. And the government bailout. Actually […]
I finally have a version of intel's great embarrassment. Well, beyond the most recent ones. And the government bailout. Actually, intel seems to not be doing too well...
Anyways, Itanium.
It's a 9540, so nothing too spectacular. But it's still a nice addition to my CPU collection.
I had a few of them in my collection but I have never seen a running Itanium system sadly.
It's hard to even find a video with an Itanium system running.
My builds!
The FireStarter 2.0 - The wooden K5
The Underdog - The budget K6
The Voodoo powerhouse - The power-hungry K7
The troll PC - The Socket 423 Pentium 4
I bought a Voodoo3.
😏
After opening up, I see the board needs new caps. And the power supply is definitely going to be tossed out. I remember these exhaust hot air while doing almost nothing. They weigh as much as your generic phone charger...
i386 16 ⇒ i486 DX4 100 ⇒ Pentium MMX 200 ⇒ Athlon Pluto 700 ⇒ AthlonXP 1700+ ⇒ Opteron 165 ⇒ Dual Opteron 856
PD2JK wrote on 2026-02-26, 15:37:I bought a Voodoo3. […]
I bought a Voodoo3.
😏
After opening up, I see the board needs new caps. And the power supply is definitely going to be tossed out. I remember these exhaust hot air while doing almost nothing. They weigh as much as your generic phone charger...
Very nice. Is that a Bora?
giantenemycat wrote on 2026-02-26, 16:55:PD2JK wrote on 2026-02-26, 15:37:I bought a Voodoo3. […]
I bought a Voodoo3.
😏
After opening up, I see the board needs new caps. And the power supply is definitely going to be tossed out. I remember these exhaust hot air while doing almost nothing. They weigh as much as your generic phone charger...
Very nice. Is that a Bora?
Correct! BoraPro2 I believe, or MS-6168 VER2. I tried modifying one to 16MB once, without success. I'm not sure if I retry it in the future...
i386 16 ⇒ i486 DX4 100 ⇒ Pentium MMX 200 ⇒ Athlon Pluto 700 ⇒ AthlonXP 1700+ ⇒ Opteron 165 ⇒ Dual Opteron 856
Mandrew wrote on 2026-02-25, 10:10:Probably the same as my PA-WTEGA PCchips clone, someone already mapped it. […]
Arkadiusz wrote on 2026-02-25, 09:06:Did you find the documentation for the jumpers and DIP switches on the third card? And what's the card's name?
Probably the same as my PA-WTEGA PCchips clone, someone already mapped it.
Dipswitch 1-4 select the card video output mode:
0-1-0-0: MDA Mode (main)
1-0-0-1: CGA 40x25 (main)
1-0-0-0: CGA 80x25 (main)
0-1-1-1: EGA 200 lines (main)
0-1-1-0: EGA 350 lines (main)
1-1-1-1: CGA 40x25 (secondary)
1-1-1-0: CGA 80x25 (secondary)
1-1-0-1: EGA 200 lines (secondary)
1-1-0-0: EGA 350 lines (secondary)Dipswitch 5 selects the IO address:
0: I/O address range in 3xx (default)
1: I/O address range in 2xx0 means switch open, 1 means closed.
Thank you very much!
After many of us vulnerably exposed ourselves - what actually is in giantenemycat’s mystery box? You can't start a story and not finish it.. 😉
Flare400 wrote on 2026-02-23, 15:43:Thank you, I was able to downgrade the BIOS to Version 1.09 (KYET36WW), but I am still having the same problem.
I checked my A22p now and it's running BIOS 1.07, so I guess I also messed that one up. 1.07 is the attached file - please try that out and tell me if it works.
This should really be the correct downgrade, because I posted about that in 2020 on the German Thinkpad forum, but must've had the wrong version in my head when transferring it into the accompanying wiki.
Sorry for the hassle. 😁
