TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[debs3759]

Ha ha and even to download a simple picture took forever. And you can download a 50GB game today. With those speeds with modem's to download 50 gigs you would need to start the download and go to hibernation for 100 years and the download might be done. (Probably not because of power outages the pc would be turned of by the time you wake up ) xD

My first modem in 1995 was 2400 baud (ie 2400 bits per second, around 240 bytes per second with network overhead). Took over an hour to download a simple 1MB file! Those were the days, when they made programs small for downloading or fitting on floppy discs

 

[stinger608]

Testing another system for a friend, who had a P3B-F Slot-1 mobo which I had to replace, so I gave him one of my Socket A boards, MSI K7T-Turbo... Unlike previously mentioned MSI MS-6712 this one is running on SD-RAM and ALSO has 3 memory banks so I did the same thing and populated all 3 of them with identical modules.

Of course, I ended up having the same memory problem all over again, except this time I knew what I had to do, so I removed one of the sticks. IMHO, this is a pretty serious problem with Socket A boards (VIA KT chipset?), I'm surprised no one bothered to fix it back in a day, especially considering their popularity!

Yes, I believe it was a proprietary problem with the Via KT chipset now that you mention it.

 

[JunkBear]

Remember when we got our first solid computer. It was a 200mmx with 256megs a 33.6 modem. People were still on the 22 so we were on hyperspeed back in time compared to other people.

 

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[Trekkie4]

Most of my retro builds (Slot-1, Pentiums 2 & 3) have dial up modem installed, just for a good measure & that "retro" touch I've been aiming for the modems with on-board speaker, because that's pretty much the only reason I use them nowdays.

For a while, I even considered to emulate the phone line somehow, so that I could actually get the modem to handshake (rather than just dial the outgoing number, without being connected to anything for real) with emulated phone line, so I considered various technical solutions but eventually had to give up.

 

[FireFox]

Today I resurrected another PC. Dell Optiplex GX620 MT from 2005, my friend was about to destroy it. I can't allow it!
He keep only RAM and HDD from this desktop. Nobody cares about 2x 256MB ram

Weird coincidence.

I resurrected a few months ago a Dell Optiplex GX520 from 2005, i found it on the street.


Specs:

Intel Pentium 4 521, 2.80GHz
4GB DDR2 400MHz
40GB 7200 RPM; SATA
Dell 220W

I've replaced the ethernet card and the 2GB RAM, i have added 4GB in total.


I've installed Windows 7 Home Premium SP1.

Edit: it doesn't have Graphic Card, i am
looking for one and I want to upgrade the Hard Drive.

 

[Misaki]

Weird coincidence.

I resurrected a few months ago a Dell Optiplex GX520 from 2005, i found it on the street.


Specs:

Intel Pentium 4 521, 2.80GHz
4GB DDR2 400MHz
40GB 7200 RPM; SATA
Dell 220W

I've replaced the ethernet card and the 2GB RAM, i have added 4GB in total.


I've installed Windows 7 Home Premium SP1.

Edit: it doesn't have Graphic Card, i am
looking for one and I want to upgrade the Hard Drive.

Look similar, but has no PCI-E slot (GX620 has PCI-E x16). Have you tried Pentium D or similar CPU? I have 4 Dell Optiplex's - 2x MT and 2x SFF. When I will have some free time, I will try installing Pentium D 930 in SFF version

 

[micropage7]

I resurrected a few months ago a Dell Optiplex GX520 from 2005, i found it on the street.

d#mn, you just found on the street, someone dumped it
in here you can sell at least $20
the spec close to my HP 7600 SFF and what i like from branded pc is the case its pretty solid

 

[FireFox]

d#mn, you just found on the street, someone dumped it

Here in Germany it's normal to find a Pc on the street, when people think that it's time to get a new one they take the old one and leave it on the street.

 

[micropage7]

Here in Germany it's normal to find a Pc on the street, when people think that it's time to get a new one they take the old one and leave it on the street.

wow, i should move to Germany
btw how bout win 7 performance on that Dell?

 

[FireFox]

wow, i should move to Germany
btw how bout win 7 performance on that Dell?

For an almost a 10 years old pc windows 7 is performing pretty good, it could be better, I will upgrade the Hard Drive for a 500GB one.

 

[FireFox]

Matrox 7012 03 REV A
Year: 2001

Nvidia Geforce 6200LE
Year: 2004

 

[JunkBear]

Here in Germany it's normal to find a Pc on the street, when people think that it's time to get a new one they take the old one and leave it on the street.

Same things in Canada. Just got a dead computer full of mud and dirt that stayed outside. I kept the gpu and hdds. WD5000aaks, WD3200aaks and a Maxtor IDE 200gigs with 127gigs of music videos inside. All tested fine with HDtune.

 

[JunkBear]

wow, i should move to Germany
btw how bout win 7 performance on that Dell?

HP Compaq Ds51sff P4-478, 2 gigs of ddr400 and a 80gigs ide hdd. Integrated gpu and it all rolls win7 fine. Just that Aero dont work sijce the drivers are not compatible.

 

[Random Murderer]

d#mn, you just found on the street, someone dumped it
in here you can sell at least $20

Same things in Canada. Just got a dead computer full of mud and dirt that stayed outside. I kept the gpu and hdds. WD5000aaks, WD3200aaks and a Maxtor IDE 200gigs with 127gigs of music videos inside. All tested fine with HDtune.

People here, too.
Granted I live in a fairly populated area of Florida, some of my best finds have been on the side of the road. Found an old VooDoo last year in an otherwise unspectacular PC(Slot 1 PII 300MHz, 128MB RAM, some old Asus board that wouldn't boot). Aside from the motherboard, everything worked, right down to the Zip drive!

 

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Found a Dell Slimline P3 and P4 in a dumpster a good while back. Drives included too, iirc. Both worked fine, although the P3 one fails to POST. I put a 1.4GHz Intel P3s in it, so I may have killed Dell's VRMs which were probably borderline on the stock CPU as it is.

 

[FireFox]

Same things in Canada. Just got a dead computer full of mud and dirt that stayed outside. I kept the gpu and hdds. WD5000aaks, WD3200aaks and a Maxtor IDE 200gigs with 127gigs of music videos inside. All tested fine with HDtune.

If I bring to home everything what I've found on the street i would have already my own computer shop

I know all the areas where People use to Leave many old things, twice per week i take my card and go around to see if i find something, it's not that I don't have the money to buy a computer, I just love computers.

 

[FireFox]

This is the last Machine that i found on the street 2 weeks ago.

it turns on but no video

Gigabyte P4-Titan GA-8STXC Intel Sockel 478 Mainboard


Processor

Socket 478 for Intel® new 0.13 micron-process Pentium® 4 processor für Celeron & Pentium IV bis 2,8 Ghz


Chipset

North bridge: SiS645DX Host & Memory & AGP Controller

South bridge: SiS962L MuTIOL® Media I/O

Realtek ALC650 5.1 audio chip

LAN: REALTEK RTL8100L LAN chip


Front Side Bus

533/ 400 MHz FSB


Memory

Type: DDR333(PC2700)/ DDR266(PC2100)/ DDR200(PC1600) - 184pin

Max capacity: Up to 3GB DDR266 by 3 DIMM slots or up to 2GB DDR333 by 2 DIMM slots


Internal I/O Connectors

2 x UDMA ATA 133/ 100/ 66 Bus Master IDE ports

2 x USB 2.0 connectors (4 ports by cable with rear bracket)

1 x FDD port


Expansion Slots

1 x AGP universal slot (4xAGP 2.0 compliant)

5 x PCI slots (PCI 2.2 compliant)


Rear Panel I/O

PS/2 Keyboard / Mouse

2 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports

1 x RJ45 LAN port

Audio (1 x Line-in / 1 x Line-out / 1 x Mic) connector

2 x COM ports

1 x joystick


Form Factor

ATX form factor, 4 layers PCB (30.4 x 20 cm)

 

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North bridge: SiS645DX Host & Memory & AGP Controller

South bridge: SiS962L MuTIOL® Media I/O

There's a name I haven't heard in a while. Are they still around?

 

[FireFox]

There's a name I haven't heard in a while. Are they still around?

i think so.

 

[Random Murderer]

There's a name I haven't heard in a while. Are they still around?

i think so.

Indeed. Mostly servers and industrial systems now, though.

 

[FireFox]

Can someone tell why this machine it turns on but no video

 

[TRWOV]

Can someone tell why this machine it turns on but no video

have you reset the BIOS? Maybe the default video is set to AGP.

 

[FireFox]

have you reset the BIOS? Maybe the default video is set to AGP.

i have to try.

how to reset the bios in such Mobo?

 

[TRWOV]

remove the battery and wait for a minute with the power cable disconnected

I'm pretty sure it must be that, you can see that there was a card installed on the AGP port (the PCI cover is missing). If that doesn't work then either:

a) the board doesn't work

b) the board doesn't have integrated video and requires a video card