Pictures of the seller, symbolic price so there is no loss, but was there a voodoo 2 with no memory on the back of the card? The solder points appear factory-tinned.

Law212 wrote on 2021-11-09, 18:39:

Found this bad boy the other day. Whats a good way to clean it up?
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This is the best all-purpose cleaner I'm using to clean plastic and metal (painted) cases. I'm pretty sure it's available in your country too, although the name may differ. Remove the electronics from the case and use this and some brush you would usually use for cleaning the bathroom appliances. It will shine and smell like new after that.

You can also use all purpose cleaner you can get at automotive detailer store. It comes concentrated so you will want to mix it with water - 1 part of APC to 3-4 parts of water.

appiah4 wrote on 2021-11-09, 21:08:

Joakim wrote on 2021-11-09, 20:15:

Law212 wrote on 2021-11-09, 18:39:

Found this bad boy the other day. Whats a good way to clean it up?

I think you want to open that bad boy up and see if he's got a tummy ache as well. The batteries tend to leak.

That is an A500 not a A500+, those do not have batteries.

Well unless it's got a clock or RAM/clock or RAM/Accelerator/clock card in the trapdoor slot.

My favorite cleaner is "yellow stuff" with some varieties of Acetyl and Dimethyl Ammonium Chloride in. Usually lemon flavor and sold as general purpose cleaner/disinfectant. This used to be the active ingredients in Mr Clean some way back in the day, but only the generic types seem to have it in now. Use neat if surface really bad, ground in dirt/dinge, but diluted it shifts most gunk.

Law212 wrote on 2021-11-09, 18:39:

Found this bad boy the other day. Whats a good way to clean it up?

I cleaned mine with alcohol and a toothbrush. Probably because of laziness.

I had planned don removing the keys and using dish washing soap, which is how I normally clean keyboards, but decided against doing so after removing the enter key. What a pain in the arse to get it off and then back on.

Did your Amiga have the expanded memory? If so, how's the battery? My memory board is completely corroded, but luckily it barely made its way on to the connector on the A500 mobo, so was easy to clean up.

I just picked up a Quadro 4 750 (Ti4400) for a reasonable price because it has some visibly bad capacitors. On arrival it works, gave me a 3D Mark 2001 score a little below 12,000 in my Socket A system, so I now feel confident I won't be wasting my time replacing the failing caps. I had two different Ti4200s back in the day - a 64 megabyte and a 128, but I never had anything higher than the 4200 before I moved on to a 9800 Pro in the beginning of 2005.

Picked up this GX620 for $12 today. I normally don't buy P4s, but (a) it's getting cold outside and (b) this thing is in such good, clean shape inside and out that even if I decide against keeping it, it might be fun to play around with for a while. I won't even have to blast it with the air compressor first!

It has a fresh copy of Win7 Pro , and a quick peek at Device Manager reveals the 3.6GHz P4, 3.5GB of RAM, GeForce 9800GT, and 3.5" floppy drive lurking within. Yep, practically yawning with excitement.

The problem isn't that it's a p4, but the likely custom form factor, motherboard, psu and case. P4s are great, although not exactly rare.

Law212 wrote on 2021-11-09, 18:39:

Found this bad boy the other day. Whats a good way to clean it up?

I just use plain white Cif, microfiber cloth and toothbrush. After a good rubbing and scrubbing I give it a good rinse and let it dry.

dulu wrote on 2021-11-09, 21:40:

Pictures of the seller, symbolic price so there is no loss, but was there a voodoo 2 with no memory on the back of the card? The solder points appear factory-tinned.

You got a later card with 1MB chips instead the usual 512K.

A couple of impulse purchases. Got a new old stock Tseng ET4000AX and a cool little 386sx sbc-card (JUKI-730-M4-R3). Oh and the seller of the Tseng Labs card also gifted me a nice c64 keychain 😀

Impressive that they were still making 386sx type CPUs (well, SoC) in 2005. I've got a similar one but purely PC104, so I use it with a riser & soundcard & videocard. Looks like your one already has integrated VGA?
386SX with easy to use PS/2 mouse is great 😀

I've been picking up Toshiba Docks for a while now - trying to learn a bit about them. Here's the Toshiba Card Station I, II and III - I really wish I could find a manual for any of them, there's some weird selector dial on the CS-I have no idea what it does.

Well I managed to find a server Tualatin, and a Winbond IO card that I can hopefully solder in to being a not-so-fast floppy and ide solution for the eventual 486 I want to put together. I do wonder what the 1.45 means, though.

The 1.45 is the voltage.

I have a PIII-S 1400/512/133/1.45 myself and it works on my Shuttle board.

Twin Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM cards in VLB and PCI varieties, same S3 Vision 968 chipset + TI TVP3026 DAC's... they even have matching BIOS versions and almost matching FP vram.

Amazing. I don't believe these are EDO VRAMs though. KM428C256J-6 is a 8bit FPM VRAM.

EDO VRAMs are on newer version of this card with four 256k x 16 chips.

mpe wrote on 2021-11-10, 23:10:

Amazing. I don't believe these are EDO VRAMs though. KM428C256J-6 is a 8bit FPM VRAM.

EDO VRAMs are on newer version of this card with four 256k x 16 chips.

Hmm, I was relying on the sellers description, thank you for the correction!

How's that Nexgen system running? I recently acquired an Alaris built NX5x86 based system (also a P90) with the VLB board that features a NCR chipset / "Skyeagle" VLB video card. Looking forward to putting it through it's paces.

Thermalwrong wrote on 2021-11-10, 22:08:

Impressive that they were still making 386sx type CPUs (well, SoC) in 2005. I've got a similar one but purely PC104, so I use it with a riser & soundcard & videocard. Looks like your one already has integrated VGA?
386SX with easy to use PS/2 mouse is great 😀

Yes, this one has got integrated VGA adapter so it should be possible to power it up standalone without backplane or any add on cards. I was thinking that it would make a fun little 386 DOS machine: http://www.attro.com/download/datasheet/JUKI-730-M4-R3.pdf

Funny coincidence was also that CPU Galaxy made just recently a video about ROCKY-318-M4-R3 that is the same card but without vga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyjeVx_YOLE

MN_Moody wrote on 2021-11-11, 00:38:

How's that Nexgen system running? I recently acquired an Alaris built NX5x86 based system (also a P90) with the VLB board that features a NCR chipset / "Skyeagle" VLB video card. Looking forward to putting it through it's paces.

Let me know how does it perform. I do have quite a few of VLB VGA cards, but none with NCR chipset.

MN_Moody wrote on 2021-11-10, 22:50:

Twin Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM cards in VLB and PCI varieties, same S3 Vision 968 chipset + TI TVP3026 DAC's... they even have matching BIOS versions and almost matching FP vram.

Nice catch 😀

Do they work? I have a bunch of PCI version cards and mostly all have problems. I have only one VLB and it works flawlessly 😀