This Jewel, I love to have a B/N screen, starting to become rare.... Plastic OK, The only thing missing is a rear door covering the ports, original psu working, external floppy working... Every time I want to boot it from the hard drive, I have to boot it from the floppy disk first because it doesn't keep the date. I've read that the problem is a bit more complex than simply replacing the backup battery...if anyone knows the solution...

This Jewel, I love to have a B/N screen, starting to become rare.... Plastic OK, The only thing missing is a rear door covering the ports, original psu working, external floppy working... Every time I want to boot it from the hard drive, I have to boot it from the floppy disk first because it doesn't keep the date. I've read that the problem is a bit more complex than simply replacing the backup battery...if anyone knows the solution...

This Jewel, I love to have a B/N screen, starting to become rare.... Plastic OK, The only thing missing is a rear door covering the ports, original psu working, external floppy working... Every time I want to boot it from the hard drive, I have to boot it from the floppy disk first because it doesn't keep the date. I've read that the problem is a bit more complex than simply replacing the backup battery...if anyone knows the solution...

Just pulled the trigger on a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 that will go beautifully with the Win98 machine I’m planning 🤗

Nvidia Quadro NVS280 PCI (FX5200 PCI). Goes to one Win9x RetroPC with driver 45.23. Also low profile, without low profile bracket. Has DMS-59 -> 2xVGA converter.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro- … s-280-pci.c1455

tehsiggi wrote on 2026-05-26, 20:11:

Here it is.. Not a 2800 but a 2500. Still very nice and in great condition. I'll keep it as my small formfactor xp machine. […]
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MattRocks wrote on 2026-05-22, 14:43:

tehsiggi wrote on 2026-05-21, 19:51:

I just bought a TARGA notebook with an Athlon XP-M 2800 inside. Just for the CPU, but you can't get that CPU for 25€ alone 😁

Show off! 😉

Here it is.. Not a 2800 but a 2500. Still very nice and in great condition. I'll keep it as my small formfactor xp machine.

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I bought one of those just for the CPU, too, some years ago. Quite a heavy machine.
Came with a 2000+ but the case was in a very bad shape. Broken display hinges, broken shell, a real mess all in all and not really fixable.
After all it still works, that's why I'm hesitating to dispose of it...

ChrisK wrote on 2026-05-27, 11:42:

I bought one of those just for the CPU, too, some years ago. Quite a heavy machine. Came with a 2000+ but the case was in a very […]
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tehsiggi wrote on 2026-05-26, 20:11:

Here it is.. Not a 2800 but a 2500. Still very nice and in great condition. I'll keep it as my small formfactor xp machine. […]
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MattRocks wrote on 2026-05-22, 14:43:

Show off! 😉

Here it is.. Not a 2800 but a 2500. Still very nice and in great condition. I'll keep it as my small formfactor xp machine.

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I bought one of those just for the CPU, too, some years ago. Quite a heavy machine.
Came with a 2000+ but the case was in a very bad shape. Broken display hinges, broken shell, a real mess all in all and not really fixable.
After all it still works, that's why I'm hesitating to dispose of it...

It just screams LIDL 2000s all over it. The style, the fact that you have an "off-line" mp3 player with the disk drive it seems. Just hilarious. Those were wild times and the one I have is in pretty good shape. I didn't expect it to be, I honestly just wanted a cheap Athlon XP-M for some overclocking (and it's been going to 2,3GHz without lots of trouble) - but this thing just hijacked itself into my heart 😁

tehsiggi wrote on 2026-05-27, 12:25:

... but this thing just hijacked itself into my heart 😁

Haha, so hard to believe but since I'm having two of those myself now (the one like this and another one with socket 370 and SIS 630ST chipset - IPC MagicNote U 340S8T) I can absolutely feel with you! 🤣

ChrisK wrote on 2026-05-27, 11:42:

Came with a 2000+ but the case was in a very bad shape. Broken display hinges, broken shell, a real mess all in all and not really fixable.
After all it still works, that's why I'm hesitating to dispose of it...

Yeah there was quite an epidemic of broken hinges in Socket A class notebooks and laptops. I think maybe due to construction getting cheaper while screens were larger and heavier. I always think that's the reason for Athlon XP notebooks being hard to find now. You will probably note a similar gap in northwood era P4 notebooks.... if you are looking at it right, will be somewhat drowned out by later P4M and such that were actually contemporary with early Turions not XPs, before they gave up the P4 mobiles as suckage and went onto dothan etc.

Actually picked this up a few weeks back and finished up a whole retrofit on it. (also picked up but not pictured is a Symantec Velociraptor 1100 aka Cobalt RAQ 3)

A Cobalt Qube 2 (the 2 has the 250mhz 64bit MIPS cpu in it.).

I maxed the ram at 256mb, replaced the proprietary PSU that nobody makes anymore with a barrel jack (qube2 only needs 12VDC to work)... threw in a SATA drive. and restored the original 1998 software on it. (got more info on my blog if anyone is interested here

BitWrangler wrote on 2026-05-27, 16:36:

ChrisK wrote on 2026-05-27, 11:42:

Came with a 2000+ but the case was in a very bad shape. Broken display hinges, broken shell, a real mess all in all and not really fixable.
After all it still works, that's why I'm hesitating to dispose of it...

Yeah there was quite an epidemic of broken hinges in Socket A class notebooks and laptops. I think maybe due to construction getting cheaper while screens were larger and heavier. I always think that's the reason for Athlon XP notebooks being hard to find now. You will probably note a similar gap in northwood era P4 notebooks.... if you are looking at it right, will be somewhat drowned out by later P4M and such that were actually contemporary with early Turions not XPs, before they gave up the P4 mobiles as suckage and went onto dothan etc.

Very likely. These hinges are so tight you can't turn them by hand. No wonder that little plastic stubs they were screwed on to had to break sooner or later.
These machines were also extremely heavy, loud and what not. Those mobile socket A CPUs, just like their P4M counterparts (not even talking about anything without "M" or "mobile" in its name), had around 30W to 45W TDP.
That's nothing anyone should ever put into something "mobile" imho.

The motherboards I bought are no more.
Seller told me someone offered more and changed his mind.

Now I have to open a ticket to get my money back.
Christ, some people are stupid.

Needed to vent.

Nexxen wrote on Yesterday, 18:20:

The motherboards I bought are no more. Seller told me someone offered more and changed his mind. […]
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The motherboards I bought are no more.
Seller told me someone offered more and changed his mind.

Now I have to open a ticket to get my money back.
Christ, some people are stupid.

Needed to vent.

I hope you told them what your maximum bid had been.. the one no other bidder came close to 😉

That's why I only post stuff I actually have in my possession in this thread. Don't want to jinx it 😅

AndreaColombo86 wrote on 2026-05-27, 08:20:

Just pulled the trigger on a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 that will go beautifully with the Win98 machine I’m planning 🤗

Nice. I also got one a couple months ago. They are quite hard to find these days (for reasonable prices at least)

I bought a nice PSU with 30A on the 5V rail, DELTA DPS-350PB-2 C. All caps look good and all voltages are stable when (small) load is added

MattRocks wrote on Yesterday, 19:48:

Nexxen wrote on Yesterday, 18:20:

The motherboards I bought are no more. Seller told me someone offered more and changed his mind. […]
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The motherboards I bought are no more.
Seller told me someone offered more and changed his mind.

Now I have to open a ticket to get my money back.
Christ, some people are stupid.

Needed to vent.

I hope you told them what your maximum bid had been.. the one no other bidder came close to 😉

Well, they knew my offer. But they aren't using ebay but something like Vinted. Not knowing how it works they thought I was delaying payment when in fact I had paid and waiting for the delivery.
Delivery was in person, and after checking I'd click on "pay" and send the funds to them.
Sorry for the bad english, I'm still very pissed.

devius wrote on Yesterday, 20:36:

That's why I only post stuff I actually have in my possession in this thread. Don't want to jinx it 😅

Man, I'm taking yours as serious advice. Note to self with bald and capitals: "NEVER POST ABOUT WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE"
I feel like I dodged a bullet. I'm pissed but also relieved. Go figure.

devius wrote on Yesterday, 20:36:

That's why I only post stuff I actually have in my possession in this thread. Don't want to jinx it 😅

I learned my lesson on the "mystery box" postings where I included photos as soon as my offer had been accepted - before the item had been dispatched.

It was listed by a seller of many boxes who promises they never open the box. It was photo'd for eBay with panels cleanly sealed and no plastic out of place, yet somehow arrived with trapped plastic housing protruding from where panels had been hastily forced on and screwed shut.

Having now added that seller to my blacklist, I recently purchased another mystery box for a fraction of the price. It probably won't qualify as vintage.

Just got some Infineon AT6!!! IYKYK

supercordo wrote on Yesterday, 21:28:

Just got some Infineon AT6!!! IYKYK

Is it a specially overclockable chip?

Nexxen wrote on Yesterday, 23:47:

supercordo wrote on Yesterday, 21:28:

Just got some Infineon AT6!!! IYKYK

Is it a specially overclockable chip?

I has BH-5 chips. Very overclockable with 3.3v