LewisRaz wrote on 2020-12-17, 22:33:

SW60XG midi board arrived today. Had some faffing around to get it to work but am very happy now!

Wow, very nice! That was the sound card of my dreams back in 1998 😀

Just ordered an Asus ScreenDuo Vista Sideshow screen for $20. (stock photo, it hasn't arrived yet)

Not hardware per se but I found manuals for a Commodore C1084S and an ASUS P2B-F in mint condition for next to nothing so I grabbed them.

I also grabbed four local PC magazines from 1989-1991 that I used to read cover to cover again and again as I sat in the can back in the day. I think I will go over them and make a post here later, to detail the computer market in Turkey back in those days, because it was.. amazing 😀

Bought these today - Olidata OLI-BX (it looks like this is Asus P2B) with P3 500 and some RAM, ASUS V7100 Magic (GF2 mx200), another ATI Rage Theater 128, couple of Microsoft mice, hdd rack and Saitek ST110.

And these TEAC speakers that follow iMac G3 style 🙂

Another E-waste pickup

-AOpen AX6BC Slot 1 mobo
My Asus P3B-F mobo hasn't been taking kindly to my Coppermine 1ghz (SL4BS) processor. Even after upgrading the BIOS. I was hoping this AOpen board would do better, but it seems to only have a max FSB of 100mhz. Damn. 🙁
-Socket 3 Chicony CH-491F mobo
Still looking for that perfect 486 mobo. I'm not finding much info on this one. Its in great condition though so I had to take it.
-Intel i740
I was always curious about these cards. This one unfortunately doesn't have its slot cover.
-Pentium 166mhz with attached heatsink
I dunno what kind of power cable I'd need to power the fan. I searched Ebay for "2-pin female-to-female power cable", but I'm not getting what I'm looking for.

I bought this ti 4600 off Ebay for ~$30. I only really bought it for the heatsink. I have like 7 broken ti 4600s that I pulled from e-waste, but they are all so difficult to fix. I figure, I'll be able to fix at least one of them.
Anyways, the seller says this ti4600 has artifacting. On closer inspection, seems like some of the capacitors are swollen. Might be an easy fix. Everything else looks fine.
EDIT: Spoke too soon. Found a broken trace.

I also bought this new/old Slot 1 Titan cooler. Looks great on my 1ghz P3.

Aublak wrote on 2020-12-19, 18:00:

I dunno what kind of power cable I'd need to power the fan.

I have a Pentium 120MHz that has a similar system. It looks like this:

devius wrote on 2020-12-19, 18:27:

Aublak wrote on 2020-12-19, 18:00:

I dunno what kind of power cable I'd need to power the fan.

I have a Pentium 120MHz that has a similar system. It looks like this:

pentium120.jpg

Ah, okay. I figured it went straight to the motherboard.

Aublak wrote on 2020-12-19, 18:00:

Another E-waste pickup […]
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Another E-waste pickup

-AOpen AX6BC Slot 1 mobo
My Asus P3B-F mobo hasn't been taking kindly to my Coppermine 1ghz (SL4BS) processor. Even after upgrading the BIOS. I was hoping this AOpen board would do better, but it seems to only have a max FSB of 100mhz. Damn. 🙁
-Socket 3 Chicony CH-491F mobo
Still looking for that perfect 486 mobo. I'm not finding much info on this one. Its in great condition though so I had to take it.
-Intel i740
I was always curious about these cards. This one unfortunately doesn't have its slot cover.
-Pentium 166mhz with attached heatsink
I dunno what kind of power cable I'd need to power the fan. I searched Ebay for "2-pin female-to-female power cable", but I'm not getting what I'm looking for.

My DX33 rig runs on a CH-471A and it is fairly good despite some minor issues (Y2K bug and no PS/2 mouse header being the top of my list). I'd be interested to hear how 491 fares for you.

Also, use Dupont female to male jumper wires for that fan and connect them to +12V and G on a Floppy molex.

devius wrote on 2020-12-19, 18:27:

Aublak wrote on 2020-12-19, 18:00:

I dunno what kind of power cable I'd need to power the fan.

I have a Pentium 120MHz that has a similar system. It looks like this:

pentium120.jpg

Where can you buy such a cable?

appiah4 wrote on 2020-12-19, 18:50:

Aublak wrote on 2020-12-19, 18:00:

Another E-waste pickup […]
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Another E-waste pickup

-AOpen AX6BC Slot 1 mobo
My Asus P3B-F mobo hasn't been taking kindly to my Coppermine 1ghz (SL4BS) processor. Even after upgrading the BIOS. I was hoping this AOpen board would do better, but it seems to only have a max FSB of 100mhz. Damn. 🙁
-Socket 3 Chicony CH-491F mobo
Still looking for that perfect 486 mobo. I'm not finding much info on this one. Its in great condition though so I had to take it.
-Intel i740
I was always curious about these cards. This one unfortunately doesn't have its slot cover.
-Pentium 166mhz with attached heatsink
I dunno what kind of power cable I'd need to power the fan. I searched Ebay for "2-pin female-to-female power cable", but I'm not getting what I'm looking for.

My DX33 rig runs on a CH-471A and it is fairly good despite some minor issues (Y2K bug and no PS/2 mouse header being the top of my list). I'd be interested to hear how 491 fares for you.

Also, use Dupont female to male jumper wires for that fan and connect them to +12V and G on a Floppy molex.

I didn't know there was a CH-471A. Maybe its manual could shed some light on this mobo for me.

devius wrote on 2020-12-19, 18:27:

Aublak wrote on 2020-12-19, 18:00:

I dunno what kind of power cable I'd need to power the fan.

I have a Pentium 120MHz that has a similar system. It looks like this:

pentium120.jpg

I think this might work for my power needs.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Pin-Molex-IDE-to-3 … gwAAOSwi8VZUqSo
or this
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Micro-3-Pin-Fan-Conn … bgAAOSwoX5asqEH

Chances are CH-491E is more likely to help you. Yours may just be a 5V/3.3V version.

appiah4 wrote on 2020-12-19, 19:08:

Chances are CH-491E is more likely to help you. Yours may just be a 5V/3.3V version.

Yup, I do see some 3.3v jumpers. I wonder how I could get one of my AM5x86s to run on it?

Set it up as an Am486DX2 and try it. You won't damage the chip, and it might just work. It is an AmDX2 with a 4x internal multiplier after all.

appiah4 wrote on 2020-12-19, 19:42:

Set it up as an Am486DX2 and try it. You won't damage the chip, and it might just work. It is an AmDX2 with a 4x internal multiplier after all.

Alright. I just want the "Ultimate 486 Doom Machine".

I also have a Pentium Overdrive, but I might as well go Socket 7 then. Would be interesting to how this board could handle Quake on a POD83 though.

Never had any Gateway gear, now I do.

WOL cables are same 3 pin connectors. I bought this way and gives you two ends by cutting the wire in half, to reconnect retail pentium heatsink by soldering together this to any connector needed at hand.

Cheers,

Aublak wrote on 2020-12-19, 19:02:

I think this might work for my power needs. https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Pin-Molex-IDE-to-3 … gwAAOSwi8VZUqSo or this https://www […]
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I think this might work for my power needs.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Pin-Molex-IDE-to-3 … gwAAOSwi8VZUqSo
or this
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Micro-3-Pin-Fan-Conn … bgAAOSwoX5asqEH

The connectors seem the right ones, but the pins on the smaller connector are not in the right order. Pentiumspeed ‘s suggestion might be easier depending on what tools you have available.

Last retro hardware purchase for 2020, arrived today... Sonnet Encore/ST G4 Duet 1.3GHz - two 1.3GHz PPCs on a G4 CPU card
This went in a side-of-the-road find 400MHz Sawtooth PowerMac which had its HDDs taken out and a dead PSU. I have already restored/upgraded it with:

• a bigger PSU (ATX pinout rearranged as described here)
• more 100MHz SDRAM (the sweet spot might be 768MB to 1GB, above it some apps tend to glitch)
• a flashed Club3D ATi Radeon 9250 AGP running 1920x1080x32 just fine in OS9 (64KB firmware here)
• 2x80GB WD blacks
• an ATAPI ZIP with the original graphite-case front panel borrowed from another G4 whose case was on worse condition
• a PC SoundBlaster Live (patched drivers) with MIDI through OMS (scratch that, Creative's extensions made it take ages to boot, I'd rather use an Audiophile or a USB MOTU interface)
• a new clock/nvram battery

It is currently running MacOS 9.2.2, I'm considering moving to MorphOS but as far as I can tell, the second CPU will be left unused.
Don't care about OS X at all, after all I still keep my Intel unibody at 10.6.8 with Rosetta, so it's either MOS or OS9 on this thing.
Next upgrade would possibly be a OS9-boot-compatible SATA card...

Acquired this beauty a couple of days ago. Needed a clean but works like a charm.