Meatball wrote on 2022-09-07, 00:26:

Won the trifecta on this one: […]
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Won the trifecta on this one:

Physical damage
Electrical damage (NO ESD protection)
Water damage

Tested a few of the contents and nothing worked.

Oof, that really sucks. What was in the box?

BetaC wrote on 2022-09-06, 22:42:

I’d love to find a manual for it, but that’s apparently not easy to do

This looks like it?

Shponglefan wrote on 2022-09-07, 00:51:

Meatball wrote on 2022-09-07, 00:26:

Won the trifecta on this one: […]
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Won the trifecta on this one:

Physical damage
Electrical damage (NO ESD protection)
Water damage

Tested a few of the contents and nothing worked.

Oof, that really sucks. What was in the box?

A bunch of 4, 5, 6, and 7 series AGP cards.

Artex wrote on 2022-09-07, 01:13:

BetaC wrote on 2022-09-06, 22:42:

I’d love to find a manual for it, but that’s apparently not easy to do

This looks like it?

Thanks.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2022-09-05, 20:33:

Acquired a BUNCH of stuff via 2 seperate 300 mile round trips. One to STL and one to Indiana. Noteworthy catches include:

* 21" Inch Apple Studio Display (CRT; Trinitron type)

Curious what model the 21" apple is.

Nothing big, but a brand new sealed AT keyboard for my 486 DX4 DOS/Win95 PC.

Meatball wrote on 2022-09-07, 01:16:

Shponglefan wrote on 2022-09-07, 00:51:

Meatball wrote on 2022-09-07, 00:26:

Won the trifecta on this one: […]
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Won the trifecta on this one:

Physical damage
Electrical damage (NO ESD protection)
Water damage

Tested a few of the contents and nothing worked.

Oof, that really sucks. What was in the box?

A bunch of 4, 5, 6, and 7 series AGP cards.

I bought a 256 megabyte X800 AGP a few days ago, and it arrived today. Inside of the box it was sealed in a cellophane envelope (which is the envelope equivalent of a Van de Graaff generator) and the next thing I noticed was when I tried to give the fan a spin, something was interfering with it. I realized that one of the two choke coils was stuck inside the fan rather than soldered to the board! I then noticed that the other one was barely hanging on. I messaged the seller, and he promptly gave me a refund.

I tried soldering the choke back one, and I tried the card in a machine. It had a display on POST, but the fan wasn't spinning and the display had some strange artifacts when it got to the Win98 splash screen. I didn't give up, and I found that one of the tiny rectangular capacitors on the top of the card was broken. I salvaged one from another DOA ATI card I got for free from an Ebay vendor, and I also swapped the fan over. It now had a spinning fan, and I was able to get to the desktop, but even in safe mode it had some artifacts, so I finally gave up.

Tonight I found an even better deal on an X800, $20.00 shipped. I hope this one works.

BetaC wrote on 2022-09-06, 22:42:

Well I guess I’m replacing my Socket 1 system for the time being, since I now have a rather nice 2002(with Audigy 2ZS from 2003) build ready to go thanks to finding this P4 motherboard. I’d love to find a manual for it, but that’s apparently not easy to do without ads or watermarks.
CE921AF5-44D2-4ADF-B55C-A3D46B3230C6.jpeg

It came with a gigabyte of DDR and a 2.6Ghz P4, which I don’t really think needs to be upgraded. Of course, I’m already edging at too much for 2002, so I might as well find a 3.0.

MSI still maintains drivers and documentation for older pieces of hardware on its web site, all without watermarks or registration. Your board should be here:
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PT880_NeoFSR/support

Meatball wrote on 2022-09-07, 00:26:

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Won the trifecta on this one:

Physical damage
Electrical damage (NO ESD protection)
Water damage

Tested a few of the contents and nothing worked.

WTF, was that being delivered by submarine?

Meatball wrote on 2022-09-07, 00:26:

Won the trifecta on this one: […]
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Won the trifecta on this one:

Physical damage
Electrical damage (NO ESD protection)
Water damage

Tested a few of the contents and nothing worked.

Jesus, what kind of shit is that... If idiots ship stuff like that, they wont get money any time soon... These ebay scrub sellers will never cease to amaze me, with their retarded shipping BS .... They sell vintage PC HW for collectors, not potatoes, stones or chopped wood, but guess some scrubs will never learn...

But it also show me that, worldwide shipping SUCKs... Since i never did order stuff from outside the world, i had no issues. Here on the local delivery companies, never had problem with broken parts, they just arrive, and if they were working on the seller, they just work, never had broken or busted parts from mobos or cards... But yet brand new video cards and mobos also ship worldwide, yet nothing is messed up most of the time, that only shows how important the shipping materils are. Using bubble wrap and similar things over a part, and then some other stuff to fit in the box, and make the thing not to shake at all, and ofc the box to be somehow solid, if not x2 boxes and gg...

Ydee wrote on 2022-09-07, 09:52:

Meatball wrote on 2022-09-07, 00:26:

Won the trifecta on this one: […]
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Won the trifecta on this one:

Physical damage
Electrical damage (NO ESD protection)
Water damage

Tested a few of the contents and nothing worked.

WTF, was that being delivered by submarine?

No way. I bet submarines are dry AF, unless is one that sinked...

Bought a non working HP XE3, chassis in excellent condition (some scratches but nothing more).
Sent with some light padding (0.3 cm), two pieces of cardboard per side and sealed in a plastic bag.

It fell on one corner during shipping and it's kaput for the chassis, the one thing I cared about.
🙁
Another shi**y packing move that killed the purchase.

+ 1 key is now broken as the plastic hinges(?)/latches are broken.

Damn... this thread is looking more like "Received these (destroyed) hardware today" 🙁

I recently got myself an amiga 500 , I'm working on getting a setup going with an original crt.

I picked up a 1084s locally that was recapped but the deflection yoke was burnt out which is why it was as cheap as it was , unfortunately I haven't had any luck sourcing a new one.

I later got an okayish deal on a 1081 but either the HOT or the Flyback is going bad according to the seller ,
It was shipped , but luckily it survived , the seller knew what they were doing and packed the box with high density mattress foam , theres only a bit of a small cosmetic crack on the plastic but the tube , rest of the plastic and circuitry all survived.

I bought some replacement BU508s and a flyback.
So ill have to get down to repairing it.

devius wrote on 2022-09-07, 20:13:

Damn... this thread is looking more like "Received these (destroyed) hardware today" 🙁

That's what I was thinking as well. All of those pictures of ruined hardware is just heart breaking.

Spotted this QDI Socket 370 on ebay for £5 listed as spares not tested. Decided to take a shot at it. It turned up in a Cereal Box with no ESD bag and in a filthy state. Had a Celeron 1GHZ cpu in the socket. Cleaned it up, added some ram and a GPU and it booted first time. Its a QDI Advance 10T so Tualatin compatible. Pretty happy with the outcome.

Bancho wrote on 2022-09-07, 20:55:

Spotted this QDI Socket 370 on ebay for £5 listed as spares not tested. Decided to take a shot at it. It turned up in a Cereal B […]
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Spotted this QDI Socket 370 on ebay for £5 listed as spares not tested. Decided to take a shot at it. It turned up in a Cereal Box with no ESD bag and in a filthy state. Had a Celeron 1GHZ cpu in the socket. Cleaned it up, added some ram and a GPU and it booted first time. Its a QDI Advance 10T so Tualatin compatible. Pretty happy with the outcome.

Je suis speechless about parcel.
Pretty happy it works fine.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-09-07, 20:28:

devius wrote on 2022-09-07, 20:13:

Damn... this thread is looking more like "Received these (destroyed) hardware today" 🙁

That's what I was thinking as well. All of those pictures of ruined hardware is just heart breaking.

Perfectly fine hardware that becomes shyte because of carelessness.
The worst.
And don't get started the Batman guy on this, he'd probably program Skynet to find and "terminate" bad sellers.

But there are great success stories as well.

Looking at how you guys received smashed boxes, I fear for how will my ASUS F8S laptop arrive (technically today since it's already 2AM here). Here's hopes it will be intact.

gex85 wrote on 2021-01-14, 22:55:

And another good deal (at least I think so). A lot consisting of:

• Some mystery ISA interface card, looks like a PS/2 mouse connector or something. Labelled "HS - 3000 REV2", haven't found any useful info on a quick first attempt.

I know i'm very late to reply to this, but i just found this post via a random search so let's help future travellers: I got a very similar card today, labelled HSC-1000S REV.0 that has a connector that looks somewhat like PS/2 but has 8 pins in total.

The card in the quoted post above is probably a "handy scanner" interface card for the DFI HS-3000 ... hand scanner. The best site I found is http://forum.old-dos.ru/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=205 and it even has a link to all the drivers (all other links on the entire internet are dead and driverguide is as helpful as ever... not)

Then the other nice haul of today is a fully loaded Movie Machine II ISA card, incl. M-JPEG and MPEG piggyback cards, driver disks, printed manuals.

Thanks to DosFreak for the help getting these.

I've attached images and drivers in case the other sources go down.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-09-07, 20:28:

devius wrote on 2022-09-07, 20:13:

Damn... this thread is looking more like "Received these (destroyed) hardware today" 🙁

That's what I was thinking as well. All of those pictures of ruined hardware is just heart breaking.

Sadly it's what happens when these computer parts only have value as scrap, often they end up shipped as scrap too.
It can go right sometimes, I got a Toshiba Tecra 740CDT laptop shipped to me in literally just a jiffy bag - somehow it survived with only a cosmetic knock on the plastic of one corner. Screen and all other parts completely intact 😀

Of course, there was that other time with a different laptop (Kapok 6200AT) where the laptop's useless NiMH main battery knocked off a capacitor because it landed hard during shipping, that broke the CMOS circuitry and stopped it booting until I figured out what happened. Can't find spares for a weird laptop like this one. Oh and the fan cover had to be glued back together from like 7 pieces. Vintage plastic eh.