Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bitter]

4 hours ago, adarw said:

some things i got for free on kijji! 

couldent get the cooler off but i think the cpu is a athlon xp since this came with it.

got a bunch of ide harddrives - idk if there are any viruses so i cant test them.

i seriously dont know this is so any help would be nice.

there was also this (idk what it is)

 

 

and this but again i dont know what it is. has some bad capacitors tho.

Thing with the card in it looks like it may be a board from a satellite TV and DVR box, possibly. Card is kind of like a SIM card that tells the box what channels you're allowed to view.

 

Tan colored board with bad caps looks like a power supple for *something* but I don't know what.

[Kilrah]

23 hours ago, adarw said:

i seriously dont know this is so any help would be nice.

That's a satellite TV receiver.

[Spotty]

On 8/27/2021 at 4:32 AM, adarw said:

and this but again i dont know what it is. has some bad capacitors tho.

That looks a lot like an AC to DC power supply. Samsung branding on the board. Out of a TV likely? 

[adarw]

7 hours ago, Kilrah said:

That's a satellite TV receiver.

why does it have a card tho?

7 hours ago, Spotty said:

That looks a lot like an AC to DC power supply. Samsung branding on the board. Out of a TV likely? 

oh ok thanks, would it have any uses or should i throw it away?

[da na]

1 minute ago, adarw said:

why does it have a card tho?

oh ok thanks, would it have any uses or should i throw it away?

The card basically tells it what channels it can and can't play AFAIK.

And it probably doesn't have any uses. Especially if it's got bad caps.

[Kilrah]

5 hours ago, adarw said:

why does it have a card tho?

The feed is encrypted. The card contains decryption keys for the channels you are allowed to watch with the subscription you purchased. If you change to a different channel package you'll get a new card that corresponds.

 

 

[da na]

I saved a bunch of computers from a scrap pile at school, most notably these 2 XP systems (there are still some core2 systems floating around on campus, xp machines were recently replaced.) 
This ones case really caught my eye…

Sadly it won’t turn on, and there are a few dead caps - I will attempt to get it running again.

Then there’s this one, a Pentium 4 HT system that’s twice as heavy as it looks. It turns on but HDD is making sounds it shouldn’t. Don’t know clock speed but it has an 80gb Samsung HDD and 1024 mb of ram.

[Corrupt_Liberty]

21 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

I saved a bunch of computers from a scrap pile at school, most notably these 2 XP systems (there are still some core2 systems floating around on campus, xp machines were recently replaced.) 
This ones case really caught my eye…

OMG,  I used to have this exact case.  Although I painted gray flames on the side and hot glued a skull to the front vents. Even wired red leds for the eyes that blinked with hdd activity.  I wish I still had that thing.  The CPU cooler I had sounded like jet engine though. 

 

Oh the hours I spent playing Unreal Tournament 2004 on this thing.  

[da na]

Starting refurbishing work on the MSI PC. Today I cleaned it with an electric air duster, disassembled the whole system, blew off every part again, tried to remove the cooler for 10 minutes and finally got the whole thing apart so I could solder those new caps on and replace the psu (tested it with the it departments tester and it didn’t give anything on +12v). 


And the p4 system I picked up along with this one boots into xp but it is password locked and no one can remember it.

[da na]

3 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

You can use Hiren's Boot CD to modify the SAM file or enable the "Super Admin" account which'll allow you to create another admin account.

Thanks for the tip! I’ll try this in tomorrow’s free period.

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, Mel0nMan said:

Starting refurbishing work on the MSI PC. Today I cleaned it with an electric air duster, disassembled the whole system, blew off every part again, tried to remove the cooler for 10 minutes and finally got the whole thing apart so I could solder those new caps on and replace the psu (tested it with the it departments tester and it didn’t give anything on +12v). 

 

-snip

 

And the p4 system I picked up along with this one boots into xp but it is password locked and no one can remember

Double post

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, Mel0nMan said:

Starting refurbishing work on the MSI PC. Today I cleaned it with an electric air duster, disassembled the whole system, blew off every part again, tried to remove the cooler for 10 minutes and finally got the whole thing apart so I could solder those new caps on and replace the psu (tested it with the it departments tester and it didn’t give anything on +12v). 

 

-snip

 

And the p4 system I picked up along with this one boots into xp but it is password locked and no one can remember it.

What GPU you planning to put in the AGP? 

[da na]

8 minutes ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

What GPU you planning to put in the AGP? 

No idea. Don't have experience with or much knowledge of GPUs of this era - I probably won't be adding any GPU as it has integrated graphics, probably a Rage XL, and integrated audio. 

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Mel0nMan said:

Starting refurbishing work on the MSI PC. Today I cleaned it with an electric air duster, disassembled the whole system, blew off every part again, tried to remove the cooler for 10 minutes and finally got the whole thing apart so I could solder those new caps on and replace the psu (tested it with the it departments tester and it didn’t give anything on +12v). 


And the p4 system I picked up along with this one boots into xp but it is password locked and no one can remember it.

Super easy to bypass the password by just resetting it, you'll need a bootable Linux media and swap out a file for cmd.exe so you can call that up with admin access and change the password by clicking for ease of access stuff. Easy to do, easy to find on Google.

[SimplyChunk]

30 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

No idea. Don't have experience with or much knowledge of GPUs of this era - I probably won't be adding any GPU as it has integrated graphics, probably a Rage XL, and integrated audio. 

Integrated will give you a display out but I think you'll have to watch the resolutions it supports.  I think you'll be limited 4:3 aspect at least

[Bitter]

@Mel0nMan

utilman.exe, delete it, paste a copy of cmd.exe and rename it to utilman.exe and when you reboot you click the ease of access thing for login and boom admin command prompt.

[Gianthamster]

On 8/31/2021 at 10:13 PM, Mel0nMan said:

I saved a bunch of computers from a scrap pile at school, most notably these 2 XP systems (there are still some core2 systems floating around on campus, xp machines were recently replaced.) 
This ones case really caught my eye…

Sadly it won’t turn on, and there are a few dead caps - I will attempt to get it running again.

Then there’s this one, a Pentium 4 HT system that’s twice as heavy as it looks. It turns on but HDD is making sounds it shouldn’t. Don’t know clock speed but it has an 80gb Samsung HDD and 1024 mb of ram.

I have one of those HP machines. Mine is a Pentium 4 630. 1gb of ram and a 40gb WD drive. I did put an Nvidia 8400GS in it. Was the only SFF pci-e card that i had.

[adarw]

does anyone know what this is? its for sale locally for 5 bucks

[WhitetailAni]

4 minutes ago, adarw said:

does anyone know what this is? its for sale locally for 5 bucks

An old (and probably bad) PCIe video card

 

Do you have pictures of the back?

[adarw]

1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

An old (and probably bad) PCIe video card

 

Do you have pictures of the back?

yea ik tho it looks cool. no i dont.

[Gianthamster]

2 hours ago, adarw said:

does anyone know what this is? its for sale locally for 5 bucks

Looks like a Sapphire Radeon X1300 Pro after some googling for you.

[Jonathan Chau]

Back in the days where notebook CPU can be swapped and upgraded easily, I do notebook upgrade a lot:

I do also have some MXM GPUs taken out from old notebook, I just forgot where I placed them...

And these should be the oldest CPUs and RAM I have right now:

 

No they are not ebay 2nd hands, I kept them from my old PCs for "future use"

But then I just didn't keep any parts in my first PC which was a 486SX, hmmm...

[8tg]

Anyone got any idea what case I could put this in that would really show it off and a transparent power supply?

I’m thinking cooler master elite 130 but with the plastic side panel mod so you can see into it.

It has to be an itx case that has room for a longer than normal itx board, for example a fractal design nano S has a lift of sorts towards the front of the case and the board wouldn’t fit.

[Bitter]

3 hours ago, 8tg said:

Anyone got any idea what case I could put this in that would really show it off and a transparent power supply?

I’m thinking cooler master elite 130 but with the plastic side panel mod so you can see into it.

It has to be an itx case that has room for a longer than normal itx board, for example a fractal design nano S has a lift of sorts towards the front of the case and the board wouldn’t fit.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000561173350.htm

 

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32891495160.html

 

Either of those would be pretty appropriate.

[da na]

Someone in the English department actually knew the password for this PC… very happy!