Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bitter]

28 minutes ago, Hikingferal said:

Oh god, that looks like a mouldy old cork haha - I don't know much about electronics when we get down to that level but that just looks vile.

That's the inside of a capacitor THE INSIDE LOL. It should look like the one above it on the board. C47 and C48 are input caps that something or other and this is a common fail on these speakers with age for some reason. I've got caps to do all the caps on the input/amp board and power supply board, but I'll just do the one bad input cap and make sure that solves my issue before going forward with all the rest. These speakers are about....last gen Core2/1st gen Core i era.

[Bitter]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/bluescreen

Can someone try this out? Looks pretty fun!

[da na]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/bluescreen

Can someone try this out? Looks pretty fun!

Built a pc for my roommate, he left his pc unlocked when he was out of the room one day so I downnloaded a BSOD PNG and set it fullscreen. He tried to return the computer to me and was so confused when I told him to alt f4 the blue screen and it went away

[Dabombinable]

The MSI KT6V has the microcode for mobile Socket A cpu:

[Bitter]

5 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

Built a pc for my roommate, he left his pc unlocked when he was out of the room one day so I downnloaded a BSOD PNG and set it fullscreen. He tried to return the computer to me and was so confused when I told him to alt f4 the blue screen and it went away

It works on 10 but shows an old school BSOD and the fake boot screen doesn't really work. Overall 7/10 would fool almost anyone.

[Alexcomputinggpus]

On 1/9/2023 at 4:25 AM, ApolloX75 said:

Ahaha man...  I still have my X850 XT, I bought it new from Canada Computers launch week. I still have the box.

 

It's my favorite card, I've kept it safe and it works flawlessly still. I use it in all my Athlon XP systems when I'm having some overclocking fun.

I got it for like 3$ 

 

[Dabombinable]

Gotta love pencil mods:

KT133 boards would be utterly shit if it weren't for ISA support

[ArTex311]

Usually when I build PCs I can get just about almost a full 10 years out of them, that is when I build high end rigs. I came across these old photos, kind of hard to see, sorry for the blurriness. Awe yeah GTX 280 baby!! Actually I hated that damn card, I remember having to take it a part every so often and cook it in the oven. It was made by PNY and when I first started having issues with it was still covered under warranty and I sent it to them. Whenever I do stuff like this I will put my initial somewhere small just in case. They sent it back telling me they sent me a new refurbished GPU, long behold my initials where still on it so they actually sent me my original damn card back. Never have I ever wasted money on a PNY product after that. 

 

 

[ApolloX75]

27 minutes ago, ArTex311 said:

 

I do not miss the days of the rats nests. And the ketchup and mustard cabling. And the 80mm or 92mm fan mounts. And the lack of airflow. And the drive bays riveted together.

 

I do not miss a lot of stuff lol.

[Deanio46]

It's becoming a bit of a hobbie is collecting up old PC's & components. I enjoy tinkering with tech new & old 

[ApolloX75]

In my never ending mission to provide fuel for my hobby, I may be going a little overboard lately.

 

I snapped up a MSI TwinFrozr 580 a couple years ago and fixed it.  Within the last year I snagged another one in perfect condition. Now I was cruising eBay and got a stupid deal on an EVGA X58 Classy with a whole kit of DDR3 2000 and a i7 930 to cook. Now I'm hunting for a 1000W+ PSU to run it all together.

 

And today I stumbled upon another TwinFrozr 580 that I may buy up. And previously I convinced my buddy to order a trio of GTX 260s to run on his 780i Ultra setup. I'm building a water block that will work on a S939 with the pre-AM2 cooler mounts. I have way too many 9800 GTXs now.

 

I have a problem.

 

Also I have been liberally stockpiling parts for water cooling like some sort of deranged packrat.

 

 

This is what happens when you lose one of your two main hobbies. You hyper-focus on the remaining one apparently.

[Bitter]

Nice Koolance gold plated block.

[8tg]

got the ancient printer up and running, I think it has options for both continuous feed paper and regular A4 sheets but idk how well the grip rollers will hold up 

guess we’ll find out when I get the C64 set back up with it 

[WackySpace]

My dad's old computer still uses DDR memory, two 512mb sticks for 1gb RAM. And a single core 1.5ghz cpu. ANd guess what, it still works, I think it uses Windows 95.

[Bitter]

Not a computer hardware or anything but....I really miss all those old free online flash games. Particularly there was this one little rpg where you could catch one of the monsters and level it up with you, on an island just exploring around. It was a bunch of fun and could easily pass away boring hours of time with it. When flash died I feel like so much of the internet died too.

[SimplyChunk]

18 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Not a computer hardware or anything but....I really miss all those old free online flash games. Particularly there was this one little rpg where you could catch one of the monsters and level it up with you, on an island just exploring around. It was a bunch of fun and could easily pass away boring hours of time with it. When flash died I feel like so much of the internet died too.

Miniclip and Newgrounds are still going to this day

[Bitter]

2 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

Miniclip and Newgrounds are still going to this day

https://www.miniclip.com/games Just a bunch of wimpy mobile phone games? Lame.

Newgrounds was never really my jam, too much meme-y edge-lordy parody games and stuff. Meh!

[da na]

Core 2 Quads are literally just two Core 2 Duo dies on the same chip, and seeing a laptop chip with both dies exposed is a great reminder of that. 

I bought this Q9100 for my Precision M4400, silver one second to the back in the picture. It'll take an unlocked extreme edition QX9300, but those still go for $80, and slightly lower clock for half the price seemed like a better deal with this chip. 2.26ghz, 12x multiplier, 1066mhz FSB, mobile socket 478.

The red laptop, a rare limited edition red Latitude E6400, will get the Precision's current Core 2 Quad, a T9900, since that is the fastest chip the Latitude supports.

[X-System]

35 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Not a computer hardware or anything but....I really miss all those old free online flash games. Particularly there was this one little rpg where you could catch one of the monsters and level it up with you, on an island just exploring around. It was a bunch of fun and could easily pass away boring hours of time with it. When flash died I feel like so much of the internet died too.

My favorite flash games is yeti & penguins, it was very fun

[da na]

4 minutes ago, X-System said:

My favorite flash games is yeti & penguins, it was very fun

well I was going to upload a .SWF but...

[Kilrah]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

I really miss all those old free online flash games.

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Mel0n. said:

Core 2 Quads are literally just two Core 2 Duo dies on the same chip, and seeing a laptop chip with both dies exposed is a great reminder of that. 

I bought this Q9100 for my Precision M4400, silver one second to the back in the picture. It'll take an unlocked extreme edition QX9300, but those still go for $80, and slightly lower clock for half the price seemed like a better deal with this chip. 2.26ghz, 12x multiplier, 1066mhz FSB, mobile socket 478.

The red laptop, a rare limited edition red Latitude E6400, will get the Precision's current Core 2 Quad, a T9900, since that is the fastest chip the Latitude supports.

Thankfully the desktop IHS is soldered on the Core2 line as far as I know, I don't think anything was TIM.

[Bitter]

26 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

I could almost kiss you! Game was called Castaway and IT'S IN THERE THANK YOU!

[Dabombinable]

15 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

Core 2 Quads are literally just two Core 2 Duo dies on the same chip, and seeing a laptop chip with both dies exposed is a great reminder of that. 

I bought this Q9100 for my Precision M4400, silver one second to the back in the picture. It'll take an unlocked extreme edition QX9300, but those still go for $80, and slightly lower clock for half the price seemed like a better deal with this chip. 2.26ghz, 12x multiplier, 1066mhz FSB, mobile socket 478.

The red laptop, a rare limited edition red Latitude E6400, will get the Precision's current Core 2 Quad, a T9900, since that is the fastest chip the Latitude supports.

My QX6850 is a thermal example of that - 10^oC difference between cores 1/2 and 3/4. No need to delid to see that they are dual cores glued together.

 

Intel to this day claims that they had the first dual core as their hastily glued together Pentium D beat that the Athlon 64 X2 by a few weeks. Considering the cores communicated over the northbridge...more single socket SMP than a true dual core.

[Bitter]

Success! I replaced the visible boned cap on my M-Audio AV40 "monitor" speakers (they're really just poser audiophile higher end media speakers but I like how they sound!) then finally replaced C12 and C13. Left channel is restored to full volume now! I can go through and replace the other suspicious and likely to fail caps now that I know there's not a deeper problem. My issue was finding C12! It wasn't on the board labelled anywhere, I had to deduce that it was the one cap that had some black goop around it's base obscuring the screen print by process of elimination and thankfully I was right. Also, thankfully this is an easy board to solder on, the rest should go smoothly if I can just knuckle down and bother to do it all. I had a little bit of that new variant last weekend and was off work during the week but not feeling up to messing with that, now that I'm feeling better I'm trying to get caught up on these things I have lingering.