appiah4 wrote:

Received an AT Slot 1 motherboard + CPU + RAM combination, which turned out to be absolute junk. The CPU is a Celeron 300 of the 0 cache variety, 3 SD-RAM Sticks of 16/64/64MB capacity (16MB SD-RAM, REALLY?), and a Jamicon 643E-AT motherboard with over a dozen swollen Yahey brand capacitors. The CPU will go into collection, SD-RAMs will be discarded, not sure if the AT motherboard is worth recapping. It doesn't look anything special, just a regular LX AT Slot 1 board, I'm thinking of throwing it away.. Any reason to keep it?

I have a few more items in the mail, I'll post the photos later.

Maybe the SDRAMs will be the kind that work okay in really old/weird motherboards? Like 430TX/VX/etc boards for example? I would keep them, especially since they don't take much space.

I do not own a AT Slot 1 board, so would probably keep it, but also would probably not invest time&money in a recap.

My name is Cyrix200+ and I'm a hoarder. 🤣

Haven't gotten around to taking pictures, but I went to RE-PC and bought the following goodies:

- A DVD-/+RW drive module for Dell Latitude D-series laptops
- A 24x CD-ROM drive module for Dell Latitude C-series laptops
- A floppy drive module for my Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet)
- An NEC ND-3550A IDE DVD-RW drive with a black bezel (has a broken eject button, so is being used as a bezel+tray donor)
- An external parallel ZIP100 drive with cables (not getting power from the AC adapter, so it may be dead)
- Microsoft Sidewinder Freestyle Pro gamepad
- 3.5" floppy drive cleaner
- A new power supply for my Dell Optiplex GX520
- and a few other not so interesting items

Not really suitable, but there doesn't seem to be a thread for other HW related things, so here it goes.

A flea market find for 1e.

appiah4 wrote:

Received an AT Slot 1 motherboard + CPU + RAM combination, which turned out to be absolute junk. The CPU is a Celeron 300 of the 0 cache variety, 3 SD-RAM Sticks of 16/64/64MB capacity (16MB SD-RAM, REALLY?), and a Jamicon 643E-AT motherboard with over a dozen swollen Yahey brand capacitors. The CPU will go into collection, SD-RAMs will be discarded, not sure if the AT motherboard is worth recapping. It doesn't look anything special, just a regular LX AT Slot 1 board, I'm thinking of throwing it away.. Any reason to keep it?

I have a few more items in the mail, I'll post the photos later.

Throwing away a Baby AT Slot-1 motherboard... Madness!

I even keep my PC Chips Ali Apollo chipset Slot-1 boards just because they use the Baby AT form factor.

Sound Blaster 16 ASP CT1740 (DSP v4.04) arrived today. This is the exact card I had back then on the 486-DX40 in the early 90s. Ah, the memories. ASP chip is hard soldered in. They started to make them optional right after this. There are models with the same date stamp that have a socket instead.

Bought some Alliance srams - made in 96'.
For comparison there's also the fake chinese shite pictured.

Nice. I can tell the difference between the two: one works, and the other one doesn't. Learnt that the hard way when I purchased IDT chips for my 486. Purchased Winbond SRAM chips on eBay.

Skyscraper wrote:

Throwing away a Baby AT Slot-1 motherboard... Madness!

I even keep my PC Chips Ali Apollo chipset Slot-1 boards just because they use the Baby AT form factor.

There are 9 caps on it that are swollen and for safety's sake I would probably change all the caps of the same brand and capacity so that means 20 capacitors to change. Worth the investment and effort? If you really say so, I will do this.

In the meantime, here's the rest of the haul:

I can not for the life of me identify the Socket 370 motherboard. It's a PLE133T chipset, so it can run Tualatin, which makes it fairly interesting to me despite the lack of AGP (I have enough well performing PCI cards) but I can't seem to find out what it is. The only markings I can find are on the bottom of the ISA slot:

PLE133/MATX(370) MADE IN CHINA
(BARCODE)
JBF 9T898039434

I have the exact TNT2 card, minus the composite and S-video ports. Every game (minus the ones that require the GeForce2 or higher) has amazing frame rates, except NFS HP2 requires a Pentium 3 (with the SSE instruction set).

bjwil1991 wrote:

Nice. I can tell the difference between the two: one works, and the other one doesn't. Learnt that the hard way when I purchased IDT chips for my 486. Purchased Winbond SRAM chips on eBay.

How do you tell the difference? Are there any obvious clues?

appiah4 wrote:

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Fancy! I'm interested to see if the RF shield cuts down on stray noise.

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I can not for the life of me identify the Socket 370 motherboard. It's a PLE133T chipset, so it can run Tualatin, which makes it fairly interesting to me despite the lack of AGP (I have enough well performing PCI cards) but I can't seem to find out what it is. The only markings I can find are on the bottom of the ISA slot:

PLE133/MATX(370) MADE IN CHINA
(BARCODE)
JBF 9T898039434

The caps look OK - have you tried booting it? If so the BIOS string might be informative...

appiah4 wrote:

I can not for the life of me identify the Socket 370 motherboard.

It's a Shuttle MV21 or MV21N.

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I can not for the life of me identify the Socket 370 motherboard. It's a PLE133T chipset, so it can run Tualatin, which makes it fairly interesting to me despite the lack of AGP (I have enough well performing PCI cards) but I can't seem to find out what it is. The only markings I can find are on the bottom of the ISA slot:

PLE133/MATX(370) MADE IN CHINA
(BARCODE)
JBF 9T898039434

The caps look OK - have you tried booting it? If so the BIOS string might be informative...

It has one swollen cap I will change soon. I didnt get around to booting it yet.

Two big boxes full of mainboard, CPUs, and RAM. Oh my... 😁 😁 😁

derSammler wrote:

Two big boxes full of mainboard, CPUs, and RAM. Oh my... 😁 😁 😁

OOOhhhh, nice. What all is in there exactly?

I'm still checking. Lots of CPUs (that ASUS mainboard box is full of Slot 1 CPUs!), lots of RAM (SIMM, PS/2, SDRAM, DDR), even more CPUs for various sockets, a Slotket, and some very nice mainboards. Found some 486 VIP boards already, even with manuals. But every single mainboard is wrapped, so this will take some hours before I know about all the nice stuff. 😁

Intel Little Valley 2 with onboard Celeron 220 (1.2 GHz Conroe-L) and single stick of 512MB DDR2.

The plan is to design my own case for it and make very small Voodoo PC. V3 or V4 PCI should fit perfectly. Also this board is win98 compatible 😀

havli wrote:

Intel Little Valley 2 with onboard Celeron 220 (1.2 GHz Conroe-L) and single stick of 512MB DDR2.
The plan is to design my own case for it and make very small Voodoo PC. V3 or V4 PCI should fit perfectly. Also this board is win98 compatible 😀

had one of these boards for 24/7 internet stuff - really good. update us when you make a case 😀

havli wrote:

Intel Little Valley 2 with onboard Celeron 220 (1.2 GHz Conroe-L) and single stick of 512MB DDR2.

Nice. May want to double-check the CPU fan; the stock fans have a habit of dying quickly.