Show off your old and retro computer parts

[da na]

30 minutes ago, Beerzerker said:

An old battlestation setup dating way back from WW "IdunnonorhaveaclueSomethingoranother".



There were casualties of course but the objective was met, mission accomplished.

 

Nice GPU. That an 8000/9000 series? 

I raise you my never used AGP card on a very similar board

Same heatsink, capacitors on yours are in different places but my card has the solder pads for them so I'd think it's a very similar accelerator. 

[Beerzerker]

Just now, Mel0n. said:

Nice GPU. That an 8000/9000 series? 

I raise you my never used AGP card on a very similar board

Same heatsink, capacitors on yours are in different places but my card has the solder pads for them so I'd think it's a very similar accelerator. 

It's a 9200 as well, nothing special about it and works fine as a standard PCI slotted card. Only has 128MB of memory so the card you have is of a higher model regardless of slot.
Need to find a couple more PCI slot cards one day, at least one more to have as a spare for situations when I need one.

The CPU itself is an XP-M 3000+, a rare CPU since not many of those were made with other XP-M models like the XP-M 2800+ being a far more common chip to find.
Barton cored mobiles are scarce these days - You can still find plenty of T-Bred mobiles but running across a Barton cored mobile of a good date and stepping these days is almost like finding buried treasure somewhere.

[dell fanboy 1111]

Well this is my daily driver a dell optiplex 755 

Core 2 duo

[da na]

3 minutes ago, dell fanboy 1111 said:

Well this is my daily driver a dell optiplex 755 

Core 2 duo

Sweet! I have refurbished many Optiplex 760 and 780 SFFs. personally using a 760 MT as my HTPC. I usually build them with 8gb of RAM and a Core 2 Quad Q9550.

And nice WD800 HDD. 

[dell fanboy 1111]

1 minute ago, Mel0n. said:

Sweet! I have refurbished many Optiplex 760 and 780 SFFs. personally using a 760 MT as my HTPC. I usually build them with 8gb of RAM and a Core 2 Quad Q9550.

And nice WD800 HDD. 

yeah they are reliable machines

[Jonny_hikingferal]

On 12/19/2013 at 9:26 PM, Lanoi said:

E4500? yum. Currently have DDR2 in my system, so I can't show it off. Don't have anything old because I'm 12.

 

EDIT -- 23-7-14 I do not run my system with DDR2 anymore. I still have a Core 2 Quad Q9500, a E7500, and a E5300.

Oh wow I was around your age when I started to become interested in computers, we got a brand new Packard Bell with Windows 95 and I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic all day lol, by the time you are 35 like me we will probably have 500GB of DDR8 RAM, 10 PB SSD's, Holographic projections in 10k instead of monitors and neural interfaces instead of Mouse and keyboard hahah

[Mitko_DSV]

Well, I was buying something else in an online store and saw this wireless keyboard and mouse set for 12 lv. (~$6.5), I just had to buy it.

Tested it on a PC with Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64 and it works perfectly (all buttons work). The mouse has back and forward buttons on the sides and the keyboard has a bunch of extra buttons. From what I saw on the stickers these seem to be made in 2002. Might use them with my Medion PC even though it's made in 2009 and it's black. Anyone have any idea how long should I expect the batteries to work (keyboard uses 3xAA and mouse 2xAAA)? There are no On/Off buttons anywhere, so will the batteries drain when not in use? After testing I took the battteries out and stored everything, don't have a use for these for now.

[8tg]

18 year old stock thermal paste anyone?

screw it it’s good enough, it’s still sticky, I know because I got it all over my fingers 

there’s a feeling of satisfaction when you plug several hundred dollars of vintage hardware together into a power supply from 2004 and don’t start a fire

and it looks mega cool, it’ll look better in a case with uv cathodes everywhere 

the ram has a utilization meter and you can actually translate the pattern it displays on post to diagnose general post issues, but this cycled all the way through to 3 green and 2 red per dimm, meaning no cmos battery, which there is no cmos battery

 

i still need a case and drives and a tiny vga monitor

[da na]

3 minutes ago, 8tg said:

18 year old stock thermal paste anyone?

screw it it’s good enough, it’s still sticky, I know because I got it all over my fingers 

there’s a feeling of satisfaction when you plug several hundred dollars of vintage hardware together into a power supply from 2004 and don’t start a fire

and it looks mega cool, it’ll look better in a case with uv cathodes everywhere 

the ram has a utilization meter and you can actually translate the pattern it displays on post to diagnose general post issues, but this cycled all the way through to 3 green and 2 red per dimm, meaning no cmos battery, which there is no cmos battery

 

i still need a case and drives and a tiny vga monitor

Wow, wish I had that RAM...

I have a 2004 PSU, but it's not cool like yours. It's just a bomb, not a cool bomb

[Takumidesh]

Found my old EeePC, need to find power for it and try to boot it up.

 

This thing was excellent back in the day, super portable and "light", 3 USB 2.0 ports, VGA output.

 

I basically daily drove this thing for like a year.

[Dabombinable]

Working on my Uncle's old PC (mine now of course).

• Board still works well (hates my 512MB PC133 sticks though)
• Managed to get my dual rank PC133 256MB SDRAM working (and a different single rank kit, which doesn't have proper SPD)
• Replaced the noisy (worn ball bearing) akasa fan with one from an old AM2 Sempron cooler that I had lying around
• Cleaned the worst of the salt from 3rd RAM slot (still dead though - living near beaches is bad for computers)
• Going to be using my Samsung SV2001H and the 40GB IBM deskstar that came with the computer (currently have one of the first V series Spinpoint in for testing)
• New Duron 1000 stays under 40 degrees celcius with the better cooler (original one can only cool a Pentium 667 properly - not even PIII 1000)
• Going to be using an Awe64 Value+early Intel 100Mb TX nic (98SE comes with the drivers)
• Also upgrading to my 52x CD burner + 8x DVD burner (slight upgrade with the CD burner - just newer 52x version, and CD-ROM drive)
• Front fan is a ball bearing Powerlogics unit from a 2004 computer case (was extremely high quality for 2004)
• PSU has had the sticker+ rubber plug over fan bearing removed for oiling (very quiet now) and plug replaced.
• Brand new clock battery - far lighter than the original one and the one that came with my NOS Socket A board (well over 3V after nearly 20 years in storage - beats the 10 years shelf life of the new energizer ones)

[abit-sean]

I have been rearranging my workshop, splitting out in to two areas. One for general work and one for working on PCs. The PC workshop is pretty much done but needs something to make it look better.

When I worked at abit motherboards I used to trade a lot with other tech companies (Intel, AMD, Corsair, Tagen, XFX, Zalman and OCZ). We did this mainly for compatibitly and testing. I would recommend there stuff and they mine. I kept a few bits and peices and I have put them together to make some working art. Plan is to mount it on the wall but also have the ability to pull it down and power it up to have a play every now and then. If this goes well I might do some more retro builds. 

Parts list (estimated age 2007)

abit IP35 pro motherboard

Intel confidential CPU. (No idea what it is yet)

Corsair dominator 2gb Kit

Zalman 9700 cpu cooler

XFX geforce 6600

Tagen 480w PSU

WD raptor 72gb SATA

Was planning to use 4gb kit of OCZ gold but it was all dead. All my OCZ mermory died over the years.

I will be installing Vista ultimate x64 as this was the last supported OS for the motherboard.

 

I will post the finished build tomorrow when I put it all together.

 

 

[abit-sean]

Quick power on test, everythings working but still have no idea what the CPU is? Will have to wait until I can fire up CPU-Z.

[Bitter]

33 minutes ago, abit-sean said:

I have been rearranging my workshop, splitting out in to two areas. One for general work and one for working on PCs. The PC workshop is pretty much done but needs something to make it look better.

When I worked at abit motherboards I used to trade a lot with other tech companies (Intel, AMD, Corsair, Tagen, XFX, Zalman and OCZ). We did this mainly for compatibitly and testing. I would recommend there stuff and they mine. I kept a few bits and peices and I have put them together to make some working art. Plan is to mount it on the wall but also have the ability to pull it down and power it up to have a play every now and then. If this goes well I might do some more retro builds. 

Parts list (estimated age 2007)

abit IP35 pro motherboard

Intel confidential CPU. (No idea what it is yet)

Corsair dominator 2gb Kit

Zalman 9700 cpu cooler

XFX geforce 6600

Tagen 480w PSU

WD raptor 72gb SATA

Was planning to use 4gb kit of OCZ gold but it was all dead. All my OCZ mermory died over the years.

I will be installing Vista ultimate x64 as this was the last supported OS for the motherboard.

 

I will post the finished build tomorrow when I put it all together.

 

 

 

Why not mount it with something like these to a board so it can remain an assembled system on the wall with a power button and PSU up there with it?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015CAP9F8/

I've got a little cabinet someone gave me that shares some dimensions with ITX, been meaning to put a computer in it for fun on the wall.

[Dabombinable]

Now to find where the Presario R3000 is being stored. I wonder if its "worst of the Radeon 9000 series" iGPU will actually output a signal through the S-Video and AV connectors.

Expensive laptop for the time, pretty much had the fastest desktop CPU back then (only when hyperthreading was usable and if Athlon 64 motherboard excluded), a decent 512MB RAM and 40GB HDD (spindle shattered unfortunately). DVD+R/RW drive was fantastic at the time and the 3.5" FDD a welcome oddity (that+being one of the lightest laptops at the time was why my Mum was willing to pay so much for it).
Ati's RS350 though should never have been a thing - though at least I now know why it used to lock up in Halo. Shame it didn't get the 9600 Pro like other variants.

[Dabombinable]

18 minutes ago, abit-sean said:

Quick power on test, everythings working but still have no idea what the CPU is? Will have to wait until I can fire up CPU-Z.

Probably a P4 HT 3.2GHz (some computer manuals call them DT instead)

[Dabombinable]

This will always be the best 9x install CD. Under 400MB though due to being optionless versions. The disc even has the CD keys pop up before install.

[Dabombinable]

Fuck yeah:

Some game disks were backedup to 3.5" diskette back before my Mum gave me the 386. Wolfenstein3D was installed from its 5.25" disk to a 3.5" disk to save space on the computers 80MB HDD (that's still OK).

 

Also excuse the 16 colours - the SiS 305 behaves wierdly on this board without drivers.

[abit-sean]

PC all built and working, the CPU turned out to be a P4 540 engineering sample. I might swap the case as the PSU can't breath and I need 5.25 drive bay for the uGuru panel.

[da na]

Have I made myself clear?

 

 

[frozensun]

I was trying to repair this old dads PC.

It eas showing memory errors with memtesy86 so I cleaned all the contacts on sticks and tested each stick one by one no errors.

But now I am stuck at this screen (pic).

Any chance to skip it?

Is there an option in BIOS for it?

I asked the dad how did it work before.

He told me it passed the test just the issue was it was not recognizing all installed memory usually 386 MB instead of 512MB.

 

[da na]

2 minutes ago, frozensun said:

I was trying to repair this old dads PC.

It eas showing memory errors with memtesy86 so I cleaned all the contacts on sticks and tested each stick one by one no errors.

But now I am stuck at this screen (pic).

Any chance to skip it?

Is there an option in BIOS for it?

I asked the dad how did it work before.

He told me it passed the test just the issue was it was not recognizing all installed memory usually 386 MB instead of 512MB.

 

 

So it gets stuck at that screen, checking memory? Well, it's a memory issue then. Swap the memory stick(s) and see if it's solved

From the 384mb, I assume that there are 4 128mb sticks and only 3 of them were working/properly seated? try one at a time in slot 0. 

[MrExplosion]

Powermac G4! Sadly It doesn't work, I should think a buggered power supply because it turns on but doesn't display or make the boot up sound. Any help will be appreciated!

[da na]

Just now, MrExplosion said:

Powermac G4! Sadly It doesn't work, I should think a buggered power supply because it turns on but doesn't display or make the boot up sound. Any help will be appreciated!

 

 

Solid machine there!

If it turns on at all (lights, fan spins) that means the power supply is working to some extent. Can you hear a hard drive? 
Might be a capacitor issue, but first have you tried different ram configurations? 

[MrExplosion]

1 minute ago, Mel0n. said:

Solid machine there!

If it turns on at all (lights, fan spins) that means the power supply is working to some extent. Can you hear a hard drive? 
Might be a capacitor issue, but first have you tried different ram configurations? 

I also didn't say that there is no hard drive, Would it still display without one?