yawetaG wrote:

Just received this, which ended up costing me way more than expected because it was a lot larger and heavier than expected (and […]
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Just received this, which ended up costing me way more than expected because it was a lot larger and heavier than expected (and got intercepted by customs):

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It's a NEC Packard Bell machine with a Pentium 166 MHz on board, 32 Mb RAM, working CD-ROM (a pretty neat one too) and floppy drive, LAN card, on-board sound, no hard disk though...(wonder if I could revive the 1Gb SCSI drive I've kept in storage for 20 years...). I'll start a thread in the system specs forum.

It unfortunately suffered some damage during transport:

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Being paranoid here, but I wouldn't doubt that the damage was from overzealous customs agents checking inside.

xplus93 wrote:

yawetaG wrote:

Just received this, which ended up costing me way more than expected because it was a lot larger and heavier than expected (and […]
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Just received this, which ended up costing me way more than expected because it was a lot larger and heavier than expected (and got intercepted by customs):

IMG_7148.jpg

It's a NEC Packard Bell machine with a Pentium 166 MHz on board, 32 Mb RAM, working CD-ROM (a pretty neat one too) and floppy drive, LAN card, on-board sound, no hard disk though...(wonder if I could revive the 1Gb SCSI drive I've kept in storage for 20 years...). I'll start a thread in the system specs forum.

It unfortunately suffered some damage during transport:

IMG_7151.jpg

Being paranoid here, but I wouldn't doubt that the damage was from overzealous customs agents checking inside.

The parcel was not opened by customs. However, despite five layers of bubblewrap, the front and rear side of the case were basically directly against the cardboard of the box, so one bad bump...

On the other hand, I also discovered the power supply was being held to the rest of the case with only three screws because a special bracket part is missing - seems the power supply was replaced at one point and it wasn't mounted back the correct way. So I'm lucky the screws held, otherwise the motherboard would likely have been toast.

TheMobRules wrote:

Rhuwyn wrote:

Two Socket 3 motherboards 1 PCI and 1 VLB. Both untested but I got it for 40 shipped so even if just one works it's a decent deal.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221981808499

Did you end up getting those Socket 3 boards? If so, the PCI+VLB board (the one on the right in the first picture) seems to be the (in)famous PCChips M919, and it has the custom COAST-like cache module! 😲

Even if the boards are not working, that cache module is very rare, and probably very expensive.

I got them for 40 bucks on an offer. Have not recieved it yet. I hope your right about it being that board.

@xplus93

Oh that is a sharp looking case. Shame they had to mess it up with a Dell logo.

A couple of MSI MS-6551 arrived to day. With IO shields, not bad. No idea why the seller included the SATA cables..

Scraphoarder wrote:

A couple of MSI MS-6551 arrived to day. With IO shields, not bad. No idea why the seller included the SATA cables..

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Wonderfull.... P4 with ISA slot. 😜

Was rather surprised to see the a Nvidia ES sample today, so I picked it up. No idea if it works or not. Looks like G72M is a mobile chip (Go 7400/7300/7200 series).

brostenen wrote:

Wonderfull.... P4 with ISA slot. 😜

Willamette only. Well, maybe Northwoods with the 400 MHz FSB too.

P.S. MBs with 1 unmounted edge still bug me...

xplus93 wrote:

Found this baby hiding in the CPU section of ebay. Cheaper than the one I was watching and in near mint condition. Popped the service tag into dell support and checked the original build. Supposedly it shipped with a P4 EE 3.4/800. It's a bit off from what the seller described, but I really don't see a reason why anybody would downgrade a CPU.

CPU failure and insufficient funds to replace the original model with another like it. or maybe the CPU was dead when the seller received it and he repaired it with a lower end part due to the price and rarity of the EE.

dexvx wrote:

Was rather surprised to see the a Nvidia ES sample today, so I picked it up. No idea if it works or not. Looks like G72M is a mo […]
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Was rather surprised to see the a Nvidia ES sample today, so I picked it up. No idea if it works or not. Looks like G72M is a mobile chip (Go 7400/7300/7200 series).

Keep us posted. I've never seen a mobile chipset on a PCI-E card. Sadly, it almost certainly will either require custom drivers not open to the public and at the very least will likely have an unsupported device ID. Where did you even find that? I don't think that stuff is ever suppose to leave the hands of who it originally went to.

dexvx wrote:

Was rather surprised to see the a Nvidia ES sample today, so I picked it up. No idea if it works or not. Looks like G72M is a mo […]
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Was rather surprised to see the a Nvidia ES sample today, so I picked it up. No idea if it works or not. Looks like G72M is a mobile chip (Go 7400/7300/7200 series).

What is the small, silver (aluminum tape?) connector at the top for?

Looks like a LCD cable connector found in laptops.

Yes, it looks like an LVDS flat cable.

Strange. Card used in a test rig for laptop screens?

Bought bundle:

- NEC Multispin 8V

- Pentium MMX 166
- some unknown chip marked "IBM"

- 3dfx Voodoo3 1000
- ATI 3D Rage II+ DVD which is pci
- ESS ES1868F based (SC1868)
- usb controller on ALI M5273 chip

I hope you get a chance to try the ESS card!

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Keep us posted. I've never seen a mobile chipset on a PCI-E card. Sadly, it almost certainly will either require custom drivers not open to the public and at the very least will likely have an unsupported device ID. Where did you even find that? I don't think that stuff is ever suppose to leave the hands of who it originally went to.

I found it at a local tech surplus shop. Since I work with hardware, the most logical guess that happened is some Nvidia employee/contractor went to dispose of it and literally put it in the wrong bin. Usually there's one bin for scrap/waste that goes to auction or a waste disposal company. The other bin is for confidential materials (like HDD/SSD, pre-production HW) that gets destroyed.

Edit:

Looks identical to the card here (bottom row).

http://www.yjfy.com/Museum/video/G72_ES.htm

Finally found a Geforce3 ti500 and i'm very happy with it. It's exactly the same as this picture from google (Asus deluxe version), works like a charm!

20 euro incl. so a very nice deal i think.

gdjacobs wrote:

I hope you get a chance to try the ESS card!

For sure,i have same card but other revision (2.1) with bit different layout,that came with wavetable daughterboard.

p.s "new" card revision is 1.10

meljor wrote:

Finally found a Geforce3 ti500 and i'm very happy with it. It's exactly the same as this picture from google (Asus deluxe version), works like a charm!

20 euro incl. so a very nice deal i think.

Soooo JEALOUS!!