Socket 370 to Slot 1 adapters.

OMG I didn't even know I had these until this afternoon. I should open boxes more often.

Problem is my friend used to feed me boxes of vintage / retro parts from his computer shop and after a while I just started putting them in the wardrobe. I mainly collected GPU's but somehow ended up with so much more...

Thanks derSammler

Sad thing is there are only a few Pentium II\III slot-1(or 370) motherboards which are in fully working condition.
- I have many motherboards but all have exploded capacitors. Good luck in changing 20+pcs of caps 😢
- I then bought a "restored" socket A motherboard online and even it had at least 1pc of cap replaced.
- Soon those slot-1 adapters will be pretty much useless.

20 capacitors.... maybye 30 minutes work

That would be a dream but nobody offers here a cap fixing service in Finland.
- Back in the 1980-90s maybe but all those electronic repair shops bankrupted or ended their business in the 2000s. ( Thanks to modern unrepairable disposable electronic designs.)
- I bet they would charge around 100+euros for replacing all 24pcs caps in a Abit P3 motherboard even if I have bought all the new caps myself.

well I can't comment on Finland.... in Australia there is always places that do soldering work on all types of electronics tv, computer, mobile phones etc its a matter looking in the right place and its something that is still quiet in demand. As for the price I guess you pay good money for labour on any non general skill.

Having said that electrolytic capacitor replacement is not a very difficult skill to master, still quiet alot of p3/p4 motherboards around and still cheap compared to 386/486 boards which are now slowly drying up

Also I believe the converters are called slotket I still got my original with a pentium 933 socket 370 cpu which I had running at 1.1 ghz years ago

I have a 386 motherboard from 1990 and it has zero=0 capacitors.
Working 100% original and no fixes made. So no worry about caps drying or leaking.
Wondering what breaks in 386 if not leaking cmos batteries or caps ?

it probably does have capacitors just different type, there is many types. You probably just associate the look of a electrolytic capacitor, but there is tantalum the round yellow balloon looking shapes and smd capacitors which are the small square chips.

Everything degrades with time unfortunately, I find on 386/486 boards alot of the solder joints crack or go bad or the traces crack somwhere internally from the board being flexed 1 too many times over the years

I agree. I have 2 identical 386 PC's, no electrolytic caps, but SMD tantalums and some popped. Also one board has issues when I tighten the screws all the way down so probably cracked/bad solder.

Yep no "cylinder"-styled caps. Probably those tiny smd capacitors.
- Interesting thing is it has worked for 30 years in 2020 which is the longest living PC I have owned ( and no fixings done to it.)

Praise yourself lucky 😀

user33331 wrote:

I have a 386 motherboard from 1990 and it has zero=0 capacitors.

I'm pretty sure it has a lot of fireworks, just not electrolytic capacitors.

haha wear safety glasses if working with a open case

treeman wrote:

20 capacitors.... maybye 30 minutes work

you must be kidding

Funny thing is that even 1989 Nintendo Gameboys still work.
Those Japan made caps are excellent.

user33331 wrote:

- I have many motherboards but all have exploded capacitors. Good luck in changing 20+pcs of caps 😢

Apart from the fact that replacing 20 caps is easy and takes maybe one hour (did 30+ in less), it has nothing to do with Slot 1 / S370 mainboards. Back then, there were bad caps produced that ended up almost everywhere. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

So far I've only had one slot 1 mobo with bad caps, and it was an easy fix, I just took the caps from another dead board and I transplanted them to the slot 1. It's not in my possession anymore, but I know it still works. Fixing caps is super easy. I'm more concerned by these leaky batteries that are slowly eating our 286/386 and 486s. Old caps are annoying but can often be fixed. Battery leakage, not always ... And when it's fixable it's often time consuming.

Hi guys. If they are of use to anyone please let me know. I don't know if they work but they look to be in perfect condition, front and back. I'm deep in the process of offloading all my retro parts save a handful of beloved projects. I have some other strange and wonderful looking things so as I find em I'll be asking more identify questions, most likely!

those are slockets

to use socket370 cpus on slot1 motherboards