Bought this Dell Latitude D820 (sold for spares) and some old laptop spares for 15 €, the laptop is actually working except for the HDD which came dead

Specs of the Latitude (as now) are:
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66 ghz (upgradeable to T7xxx FSB 667)
2 GB RAM (originally 512 MB, up to 4 GB)
Intel GMA 950
15.4 inch screen 1280x800
80 GB Samsung HDD (originally a dead Seagate 160 GB)
Windows 7 Pro x64

carlostex wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Personally, I am only buying if the price is low. And the way the market has become pricewise, I am more or less only trading these day's.

Nothing wrong with trying to find a good deal. Keep lookin'! 😀

Doing it every day.... 😁 It's like my night time reading.

c0keb0ttle wrote:

Anyone know anything about these motherboards, are they any good? The Asus looks a bit special, with those proprietary connectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Media_Bus

Really have to stop buying big lots... bought 12 motherboards with ram and cpu's just because i wanted one i new was along them: a spare for my Asus p55t2p4.

All others are slot1 and socket7, Chaintech to Msi, Intel to Via chipsets. Will test them and sell them along as i have no use for them 🤣

Huh, I think I spotted that lot also, but I never realised there was a p55t2p4 in it. It was an interesting lot!

meljor wrote:

Really have to stop buying big lots... bought 12 motherboards with ram and cpu's just because i wanted one i new was along them: a spare for my Asus p55t2p4.

All others are slot1 and socket7, Chaintech to Msi, Intel to Via chipsets. Will test them and sell them along as i have no use for them 🤣

boxpressed wrote:

I saw this NIB Hercules card on eBay and threw in the minimum bid of $5. No one else bid, and I ended up winning. I don't read G […]
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I saw this NIB Hercules card on eBay and threw in the minimum bid of $5. No one else bid, and I ended up winning. I don't read German, but as far as I can tell, this is a proprietary EGA-like card that needs to be specifically supported by applications. I don't have an EGA monitor or cable, so I can't test it right now. Still, a neat old NIB piece for the collection.

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I might be a little bit late, but only the front side of the box is in German, it means:

High resolution color graphic card for the IBM PC/AT/XT

All the text on the back side is written in French, but this is mostly like an ad, there's no useful information, except the supported resolution (720*348, 16 colors), the text modes, and the supported software.
The last part also lists what's included in the box:

[*]Fontman: design your own fonts for use with Ramfont [*]Hprint: driver for Epson printers [*]Sample fonts, that should be self […]
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[*]Fontman: design your own fonts for use with Ramfont
[*]Hprint: driver for Epson printers
[*]Sample fonts, that should be self explanatory
[*]Diagnostics software

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Huh, I think I spotted that lot also, but I never realised there was a p55t2p4 in it. It was an interesting lot!

meljor wrote:

Really have to stop buying big lots... bought 12 motherboards with ram and cpu's just because i wanted one i new was along them: a spare for my Asus p55t2p4.

All others are slot1 and socket7, Chaintech to Msi, Intel to Via chipsets. Will test them and sell them along as i have no use for them 🤣

It was a bit more interesting at first as there were 16 boards . I asked about Asus boards in the lot but they were gone (atleast one p3b-f and a Cuv4x). So he offered the remaining 12 and i saw the p55t2p4 in the photo and he said it was still there so i bought the whole lot. I hoped for some more interesting ones but to me they are not. And i can not keep everything all the time 🤣

meljor wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Huh, I think I spotted that lot also, but I never realised there was a p55t2p4 in it. It was an interesting lot!

meljor wrote:

Really have to stop buying big lots... bought 12 motherboards with ram and cpu's just because i wanted one i new was along them: a spare for my Asus p55t2p4.

All others are slot1 and socket7, Chaintech to Msi, Intel to Via chipsets. Will test them and sell them along as i have no use for them 🤣

It was a bit more interesting at first as there were 16 boards . I asked about Asus boards in the lot but they were gone (atleast one p3b-f and a Cuv4x). So he offered the remaining 12 and i saw the p55t2p4 in the photo and he said it was still there so i bought the whole lot. I hoped for some more interesting ones but to me they are not. And i can not keep everything all the time 🤣

Which boards did you end up getting?

Today's mail brought a big load of floppy disks, most of which are new in unopened boxes. Only 2 boxes are opened, but the floppies inside look unused, and the still have their sticky labels next to them in the box too.

Not very exciting, unless you consider that the box of Maxell 5.25" disks supposedly has inside a "special" version of the 688 Attack Sub game... a game which I've played extensively back in the day. Can't wait to play this one, but for that I need to hook up a 5.25" FDD to one of my systems, because at this time none has one. I do have a drive in one of my storage boxes somewhere. I haven't opened the shrink wrap on the 5.25" floppy box yet to check what's inside.

@Tetrium

Chaintech 6LTM2 with p2-266 and some ram
V-tech MB530N intel 430vx socket 7 with some edo
MSI ms6188 s370 intel 810 with p3-733 (bad caps, ofcourse, never see good ones from Msi?)
pcchips txpro socket7 with cyrix pr200 and some ram
Chantech 6ata2 slot1 via 133A with p3-450
PCPartner 35 8839-01 intel 440bx p2-400 128mb
AM-647BX 2 of these, micro AT/ATX 440BX boards with both p2-350 and 128mb
Soyo sy-5vc 430vx socket 7 with p1-133 with edo
Soyo sy-5va 430vx socket 7 with p1-120 with sdram
MSI 6163 via chipset p3-500 128mb (i checked and rechecked, this is one of the first msi boards i see with GOOD caps!! omg)

Asus p1/p55t2p4 430HX 512kb cache with intel 200mmx some edo ram

So yeah, a lot of fine bases for a retro but apart from the Asus i have no use for them. Still have to do a quick test on them.
A nice detail is that most AT boards actually still have the original brackets with com ports etc.! I don't see that very often.

Also some edo seems to be 16mb (4x) and 32mb (2x) which is a nice bonus as i don't have an awful lot of edo sims from these sizes.

Will make a small profit and keep the Asus so i'm good 🤣

I've finally completed a local trade for 2x 12MB STB Voodoo 2s and an SLI cable. Now I and my Dell can finally experience the insanity that is SLI.

I did actually have a reason to use this instead of a V3 3000; somehow the AGP slot on my Dell motherboard is getting flaky from switching out so many cards. I don't know if it's dirty pins or solder joints or anything like that, but I usually have to insert a card many times in a row before it gets recognized. Mostly when I wanted to play a Glide game I would have to swap in the V3, and then vice versa with the Geforce2 Ultra for later DirectX games too mighty for the Voodoo. Now I can have both, yay!

I was offered a lot of about 40 cards. There is at least a v2 and v3 and the rest is unknown. Couldn't pass it so i bought a big lot again 😵

In 2 days i will see what's inside the box 🤣

Happy New Years all! Here are some of my latest grabs:

Is that 7800 GS+ a 20PS/7VS one ?

agent_x007 wrote:

Is that 7800 GS+ a 20PS/7VS one ?

It's a G71 and has 24 pixel pipes and 8 vertex shaders

Got this case today 😁 Its in a very good condition 😊
I want to use it for my K6+

@Artex

Nice cards! Really like the 7800gs+, this is the way Nvidia should have made the 7800gs cards. I got the normal (16p/6v) version and it is having a hard time beating my 7600gt agp or 6800 ultra agp.
The 24/8 is a much better configuration for the card.

Why ask a premium for the agp version AND make it slower, i never got that. Especially since ATi had the faster card: X850XT PE

I cannot find a direct comparison between a bliss 7800gs+ and a x850xt Platinum Edition.

So, if you have both: you got some benchies to do! 🤣

I'll pick this up tomorrow. Looks like an interesting board, but it's pretty basic (isa only, needs controllers).
Seems identical to this http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/201 … motherboard.jpg board, there's some additional silkscreened info on mine.

Today I've recieved strange board... SS7 but without AGP and with 6 ISA slots (one shared with PCI)...
According to manual it can take CPU's from non MMX Pentium 90 up to AMD K6-III 550...

I ordered a Xeon X3230 today for $26 shipped. Unofficially supported in my Intel D946GZIS according to a couple of sources, so I took a chance. Apparently the absolute fastest CPU that this board will take? It's the same speed as the CPU currently in there, but double the cores and caches. I'm not counting on miracles, but it might help a little in CPU bottlenecked scenarios. And for $26, not a huge loss if it doesn't.