TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[lexluthermiester]

Also modded my Soyo 6BA+IV's standby LED as its original one was broken off when I got it

You mean this?

You should have picked a red or green LED. That sucka would be the first thing that got some heat-shrink tubing on it, and I mean in a hurry...

 

[MaxiPro800]

I have both a red and a green, and both lit up just as bright. They were from some RGB LED lightbulb that had a quarter of the LEDs shorted, which killed some IC on it that is almost unobtanium, so I figured I'd salvage the LEDs at least.

I've tested the LEDs with a 3v RTC battery and they don't get hot, neither does this one, despite being "blindingly" bright. And after all, red and green LEDs are kinda boring - what mobos of that era (440BX - i815E) have you seen with a blue standby led? None.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I have both a red and a green, and both lit up just as bright. They were from some RGB LED lightbulb that had a quarter of the LEDs shorted, which killed some IC on it that is almost unobtanium, so I figured I'd salvage the LEDs at least.

I've tested the LEDs with a 3v RTC battery and they don't get hot, neither does this one, despite being "blindingly" bright. And after all, red and green LEDs are kinda boring - what mobos of that era (440BX - i815E) have you seen with a blue standby led? None.

In that case, yup, I'd going with the heat-shink tubing option. LOL! But that's just me..

 

[Keullo-e]

Interesting. An AMD K6-2+ can be modified to K6-3+ (aka enable the full 256k L2 instead of just 128k)

 

[Audioave10]

for Apple Lovers...

 

[lexluthermiester]

Interesting. An AMD K6-2+ can be modified to K6-3+ (aka enable the full 256k L2 instead of just 128k)

Those were the days! Good times. I think I did this once or twice. Or maybe it was a Duron/Sempron... It's been too long! The epoxy was a bad idea though. I used SuperGlue. Worked great.

 

[Keullo-e]

Those were the days! Good times. I think I did this once or twice. Or maybe it was a Duron/Sempron... It's been too long! The epoxy was a bad idea though. I used SuperGlue. Worked great.

The Applebred Durons were actually Thoroughbreds, their L2 could be unlocked from 64k to 256k Socket A Semprons had the full cache* but clocked lower than Athlon XPs.

*except Thorton which was a Barton core with half of its 512k cache disabled. And it can be also unlocked.

 

[Greenslade]

What do people think of this. Retro Beige Dell Optiplex GX1 Windows 98, P3 450 CPU, 64MB Ram, Floppy, USB
Updated to include USB compatibilty with drives, pen drives, keyboards and mice etc.
A rare and sought after retro Dell PC. This Optiplex GX1 is built for Windows 95/98 from scratch and has a fresh install of 98 SE, 64MB ram, 30GB HDD, Crystal Soundcard and cleaned CD and floppy and a Slot 1 450Mhz Pentium 3 MMX Intel CPU. Perfect system for retro Windows 98 gaming, they don't come much better. Cleaned, serviced and ready to go. Updated so you can use USB drives, mice and other devices. Given the age, the system obviously has marks and yellowing consumate with age.
I will include a Windows 98 SE CD GPU: ATI Rage 3D As you can see it looks in good nick.Of course you don,t know until you try i It is 100 pounds make an offer 10 pounds shipping.Is that good value for the product?It does not look like any caps have blown.I suppose the thing to worry about is the Psu.Or i could try and get win98 on my thin client but that would be a big task for me.or i could get an XP PC and downgade it to Win 98.

 

[Keullo-e]

What do people think of this. Retro Beige Dell Optiplex GX1 Windows 98, P3 450 CPU, 64MB Ram, Floppy, USB
Updated to include USB compatibilty with drives, pen drives, keyboards and mice etc.
A rare and sought after retro Dell PC. This Optiplex GX1 is built for Windows 95/98 from scratch and has a fresh install of 98 SE, 64MB ram, 30GB HDD, Crystal Soundcard and cleaned CD and floppy and a Slot 1 450Mhz Pentium 3 MMX Intel CPU. Perfect system for retro Windows 98 gaming, they don't come much better. Cleaned, serviced and ready to go. Updated so you can use USB drives, mice and other devices. Given the age, the system obviously has marks and yellowing consumate with age.
I will include a Windows 98 SE CD GPU: ATI Rage 3D As you can see it looks in good nick.Of course you don,t know until you try i It is 100 pounds make an offer 10 pounds shipping.Is that good value for the product?It does not look like any caps have blown.I suppose the thing to worry about is the Psu.



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If it doesn't have AGP, I wouldn't take it.

 

[Trekkie4]

What do people think of this. Retro Beige Dell Optiplex GX1 Windows 98, P3 450 CPU, 64MB Ram, Floppy, USB
Updated to include USB compatibilty with drives, pen drives, keyboards and mice etc.
A rare and sought after retro Dell PC. This Optiplex GX1 is built for Windows 95/98 from scratch and has a fresh install of 98 SE, 64MB ram, 30GB HDD, Crystal Soundcard and cleaned CD and floppy and a Slot 1 450Mhz Pentium 3 MMX Intel CPU. Perfect system for retro Windows 98 gaming, they don't come much better. Cleaned, serviced and ready to go. Updated so you can use USB drives, mice and other devices. Given the age, the system obviously has marks and yellowing consumate with age.
I will include a Windows 98 SE CD GPU: ATI Rage 3D As you can see it looks in good nick.Of course you don,t know until you try i It is 100 pounds make an offer 10 pounds shipping.Is that good value for the product?It does not look like any caps have blown.I suppose the thing to worry about is the Psu.Or i could try and get win98 on my thin client but that would be a big task for me.or i could get an XP PC and downgade it to Win 98.



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I used to have the same model a while ago... For what it's worth, it was a great performer. I gave it a new CPU (733MHz), DVD-RW drive, nVidia TNT2 PCI card & SB Live soundcard which transformed it into a decent retro gaming system!

 

[Greenslade]

I used to have the same model a while ago... For what it's worth, it was a great performer. I gave it a new CPU (733MHz),DVD-RW drive, nVidia TNT2 PCI card & SB Live soundcard which transformed it into a decent retro gaming rig!

That is all extra exspence.I will lleave it then.I can only see this one
HP NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 16MB AGP 1.0 2.0 GRAPHIC CARD VIDEO CARD DIRECT 3D OPENGL 1x 2 25 pounds it includes 12 78 postage from germany.Intel Pentium III SL3XY 733MHz/256KB/133MHz FSB Socket/Socket 370 CPU Processor again from germany 11 pounds.

 

[Keullo-e]

That is all extra exspence.I will lleave it then.I can only see this one
HP NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 16MB AGP 1.0 2.0 GRAPHIC CARD VIDEO CARD DIRECT 3D OPENGL 1x 2 25 pounds it includes 12 78 postage from germany.Intel Pentium III SL3XY 733MHz/256KB/133MHz FSB Socket/Socket 370 CPU Processor again from germany 11 pounds.View attachment 247428View attachment 247427

That's useless if the system doesn't have AGP.

 

[Trekkie4]

That's useless if the system doesn't have AGP.

Exactly! You'd need PCI version and not the AGP one. I already had one laying around (at the time), so for me it wasn't an issue. Oh and by the way - you need Slot 1 cartridge CPU not the S370 one. Unless you want to use the Slocket conversion inside Dell, which is something I wouldn't recommend.

 

[Greenslade]

Exactly! You'd need PCI version and not the AGP one. I already had one laying around (at the time), so for me it wasn't an issue. Oh and by the way - you need Slot 1 cartridge CPU not the S370 one. Unless you want to use the Slocket conversion inside Dell, which is something I wouldn't recommend.

Thanks for your advice i will give it a miss. I don,t want to spend extra ,i want it ready to go.

 

[Keullo-e]

An easy find would be a FX 5500 PCI from ebay. It's a little overkill for P3-733, but FX cards are pretty good for Win98 gaming.

 

[onemanhitsquad]

I found some old pics of the RevoDrive X2 I bought...love it , worked great for some time then lost one of the 4 "raid" modules...sent it in under warranty and got a replacement that ran great for about a year and then did the same thing. I still have the second one , may have to get it out and make sure it is still dead!

 

[Greenslade]

An easy find would be a FX 5500 PCI from ebay. It's a little overkill for P3-733, but FX cards are pretty good for Win98 gaming.

Thanks again Lenne Does anyone have any idea what make of pc this is. It is XP 50 on Facebook for all of it
i don,t want the printer just the pc no details of the PC apart from it being XP.I don,t know why people don,t go into details about it.I have never seen a PC like it before

 

[Keullo-e]

Thanks again Lenne Does anyone have any idea what make of pc this is. It is XP 50 on Facebook for all of it
i don,t want the printer just the pc no details of the PC apart from it being XP.I don,t know why people don,t go into details about it.I have never seen a PC like it before



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No problem. I have no idea, I'd guess that it's just a generic case and could have anything inside of it.


edit: Now let's put together a XP/7 dual-boot system as I have a spare case and PSU. Xeon X3230 (similar to Q6700), P5Q Pro, 8GB DDR2-800 & HD 7850 1GB.
edit2: I'll put two systems as I have enough hardware. Xeon, 8GB & HD 4890 CF (for Win7), and 955 BE, 4GB & HD 7850 (for XP).

 

[Greenslade]

No problem. I have no idea, I'd guess that it's just a generic case and could have anything inside of it.


edit: Now let's put together a XP/7 dual-boot system as I have a spare case and PSU. Xeon X3230 (similar to Q6700), P5Q Pro, 8GB DDR2-800 & HD 7850 1GB.
edit2: I'll put two systems as I have enough hardware. Xeon, 8GB & HD 4890 CF (for Win7), and 955 BE, 4GB & HD 7850 (for XP).

I have just messaged the person asking for a photo of the system info .,and whether it has a sound card ,and GPU in it.I am only interested in buying the PC depending what is in it.I don,t drive so i have to use public transport .


Edited out the political stuff - Mussels

 

[Keullo-e]

But yeah, I put 2x 4890 on that setup as having an one card is boring. I'll set up this later. Have to use molex->PCIe adapters as I bought the PSU used and didn't receive all the modular cables, I could do my own though.

 

[Trekkie4]

[Edited content]

I too, like puppies and kittens

 

[Greenslade]

I too, like puppies and kittens

Me too. I sure am glad we aren't talking about politics on a tech forum and risking bans, infractions and getting this thread shut down

 

[framebuffer]

Yee I finally got a GeForce FX 5950 Ultra!

...well, at least this is what I thought until I saw it

This thing was watercooled, delidded and caught fire at some point of his life

...after some serious amount of IPA and paper towels I managed to clean it at this level

The previous owner sold me the card in a set (MB/CPU/RAM/VGA) and at first he was sure the system booted some times ago, but when we discovered the barbecue he was not so much sure

Anyways, what do you think?
Should I try to see if the card is able to POST before replacing the roasted components? Any idea if those components are vital for a POST / no load?
Is it even possible that this thing is not dead after part of the power delivery exploded?
(btw Cxxx stands for capacitor?)

 

[Keullo-e]

Damn, that card has been tortured hard..

I'm not a pro in electronics but if all the broken components are changed, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. And AFAIK, yeah, Cxxx does stand for caps.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Throw that away.