TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Steevo]

nope back to teddy bear with a stereo tape recorder, but it's dangerous ... you shouldn't give that to yours ...

her's a pics with a before and after ... (well not all STR will explode and do that to your beloved teddy but ... still better sorry than safe ... er? better safe than sorry, woopsies )

humpf i really need to secure that auction and make sure i am the winner ... or ... i can loose it and lament for a couple of days and then be fine again ...

still i really want it ...

NeXT Computer Inc. NeXTcube 68030 25 MHz mit 1.0 GB HDD und 16 MB RAM
NeXTSTEP 1.0a

recapped and fresh install ... yummy one!

drat and double drat ... the seller is : "NO SHIPPING" ... and stand firm on it ... duh ... just my luck

I used to have a SCSI Dual Pentium Pro server with NT 4 back office.

https://books.google.com/books?id=6...epage&q=Dual Intel Pentium Pro server&f=false

$6999.00 without the extra drives, travan 30GB upgrade.

 

[Compgeke]

Stacked up the 80s PC systems.

Top to bottom:
IBM 5150 64-256 KB, needs almost everything put into it
IBM 5150 16-64KB, bone stock MDA and Dual 360K floppies.
IBM 5160 64-256KB, VGA, AST Six Pack Plus, Ethernet, InPort card, 12 MHz 286 upgrade, 10 MB HDD, 360KB floppy.
Dell System 310, 16 MHz 386DX, 1 MB (I think) ram, VGA, 1.2 MB and 1.44 MB floppies, just gotta put the 1.2 back in.
AST Premium 286, 8 MHz 286, 1 MB ram, Hercules Graphics Plus card, 1.2 MB floppy, 45 MB HDD, Ethernet, Logitech mouse card.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Takesme back to the shit old days.

 

[Trekkie4]

Sadly, my P3B-F doesn't want to boot up... It does seem to give me audio feedback though (after fixing the caps), but it seems to be stuck between the RAM and video card check After the memory checks out fine, it goes silent & just "hangs" without any feedback. But if I remove the memory & try it without I get the standard BIOS warning (endless beeping)

On a side note, I got another old system today, a pentium 3 866MHz (S370). It's a complete unit, with 2 optical drives, 512mb of SD-RAM and 60GB HDD. From what I can tell everything works perfectly fine, but I'll probably take it apart & use the parts individually for other builds. So I'll probably upload the pics tomorrow, or some time soon, when I find some free time!

Until then, enjoy these



One of the R320S still works OK, although it tends to lose the signal from time to time due to bad soldering joint on some kind of signal amplifier. The other one worked fine until I got the replacement battery for it, and when I turned it on, the battery (somehow) zapped the phone, which fried pretty much the entire motherboard. But still - it looks nice, doesn't it?

Oh, and that Athlon machine is not mine, I've made this one for a friend... Pretty old & standard stuff, is runs WinXP Home edition just fine!

 

[JunkBear]

Takesme back to the shit old days.

Same as me with a single 5.25"reader that load the bios with disk then switch to program or game you wanted. Tandy time.

 

[JunkBear]

Sadly, my P3B-F doesn't want to boot up... It does seem to give me audio feedback though (after fixing the caps), but it seems to be stuck between the RAM and video card check After the memory checks out fine, it goes silent & just "hangs" without any feedback. But if I remove the memory & try it without I get the standard BIOS warning (endless beeping)

On a side note, I got another old system today, a pentium 3 866MHz (S370). It's a complete unit, with 2 optical drives, 512mb of SD-RAM and 60GB HDD. From what I can tell everything works perfectly fine, but I'll probably take it apart & use the parts individually for other builds. So I'll probably upload the pics tomorrow, or some time soon, when I find some free time!

Until then, enjoy these



One of the R320S still works OK, although it tends to lose the signal from time to time due to bad soldering joint on some kind of signal amplifier. The other one worked fine until I got the replacement battery for it, and when I turned it on, the battery (somehow) zapped the phone, which fried pretty much the entire motherboard. But still - it looks nice, doesn't it?

Oh, and that Athlon machine is not mine, I've made this one for a friend... Pretty old & standard stuff, is runs WinXP Home edition just fine!

Make sure you do it with a single sided chips memory

 

[Trekkie4]

Okie dokie... it's not like I got anything to lose, right? Will give it another try later today & report back with the results

EDIT
Tried it with both single and double-sided memory, it still doesn't work

 

[JunkBear]

Then something screwed up. Its important to try only ome stick at a time in each single slot. It could be one stick or one slot only problem. If not then its screwed

 

[Trekkie4]

Then something screwed up. Its important to try only ome stick at a time in each single slot. It could be one stick or one slot only problem. If not then its screwed

Yeah, I'm afraid it's toasted... It might even be something trivial, perhaps a bad soldering joint, or blown resistor but I don't have the equipment (or patience) to go through that kind of stuff, replacing the obvious (damaged) caps was pretty much all I could do at this point.

But thanks anyway, I really appreciate it!

 

[stinger608]

@Trekkie4 , when you were replacing the capacitors did you insure you put them on correctly? There is a positive (+) and a negative (-) post on capacitors.

Been there done that. That is the only reason I ask.

 

[Trekkie4]

@Trekkie4 , when you were replacing the capacitors did you insure you put them on correctly? There is a positive (+) and a negative (-) post on capacitors.

Been there done that. That is the only reason I ask.

Oh yeah, all the polarities are in order I've never flipped the cap other way around, won't they explode (or at least bulge & vent) if connected the wrong way? (I'm too afraid to give it a try)

More stuff is on the way, working on a Slot-1 system (iWill BD100), finishing on this Core2 Duo, and recently got this S370 system, which I took apart earlier & saved for rainy days

Also got another 3dfx Voodoo2 1000 (reference model) today, but I still have to make sure it's working... It's been donated to me for free



Here's a random tip of a day... If you want to wipe off the thermal compound, and REMOVE it entirely from the surface, rather than just wiping it off (and making a mess in the process) use the cotton pad & WD-40. I'm serious - it's perfect for this kind of stuff, just make sure to wipe all the WD-40 from the CPU once its clean.

 

[JunkBear]

Isopropyl alcohol too can make job and compared to wd40 it evapotes and dont leave an oily greasy film.

 

[MaxiPro800]

i still have a VCR too ... for some old ... wait ... hum I NEED TO DIG FOR MY TAPES!

I still have a VCR as well and I use it as it's better than a DVD/DVR player.

Back on thread,here's my Pentium 4's specs and case right now:

Specs:

Pentium 4 1.8A @ 2.40GHz
80GB SATA HDD
ASRock P4VM800
Rexpower PX-400 PSU (fixed,had a bulged cap on the 5VSB)
Liteon LTS-122 DVD-ROM
1GB RAM
Radeon HD3450 512MB AGP (to be replaced with a FX5200 as I will use it in a S462 rig)
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

Pic:

Also digged up my 4 year old laptop - an Acer Aspire 5349.
It works fine now,I had to install a new HDD as the old one died.

Specs:
Celeron B800 1.50GHz dual core
15.6" LED screen - needs to be replaced as it's cracked and can't see anything
250GB WDC - original was a 500GB WDC but it died 2 years after I dropped the laptop accidentally (2013)
2GB RAM DDR3
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 - before 500GB died it was Server 2008R2.

No pics on this one until I can get a good display for it.

 

[JunkBear]

I still have a VCR as well and I use it as it's better than a DVD/DVR player.

Back on thread,here's my Pentium 4's specs and case right now:

Specs:

Pentium 4 1.8A @ 2.40GHz
80GB SATA HDD
ASRock P4VM800
Rexpower PX-400 PSU (fixed,had a bulged cap on the 5VSB)
Liteon LTS-122 DVD-ROM
1GB RAM
Radeon HD3450 512MB AGP (to be replaced with a FX5200 as I will use it in a S462 rig)
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

Pic:
View attachment 61698

Also digged up my 4 year old laptop - an Acer Aspire 5349.
It works fine now,I had to install a new HDD as the old one died.

Specs:
Celeron B800 1.50GHz dual core
15.6" LED screen - needs to be replaced as it's cracked and can't see anything
250GB WDC - original was a 500GB WDC but it died 2 years after I dropped the laptop accidentally (2013)
2GB RAM DDR3
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 - before 500GB died it was Server 2008R2.

No pics on this one until I can get a good display for it.

Pretty sure that laptop could be good with a memory upgrade and a dualcore pentium instead of celeron.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Isopropyl alcohol too can make job and compared to wd40 it evapotes and dont leave an oily greasy film.

In my experience our local pharmacist gets very suspicious and asks a lot of questions if you buy a lot of Isopryl Alcohol.

 

[agent00skid]

Finally put back together an old computer my father brought. Didn't even know if it worked.

In all it's glory, with stupid headers and power plugs that couldn't be disconnected. I literally had to cut off some of the bump on the motherboard connector, because the floppy connector prevented me from opening the clip on the plug. The USB and front audio connectors were in loose pins, and the motherboard didn't sport standard headers. So I used a multimeter to figure how to connect front USB. and gave up on front audio.

Drive and memory:

And VRM on both sides of the board. Also, wierd yellow IDE cable.

 

[JunkBear]

In my experience our local pharmacist gets very suspicious and asks a lot of questions if you buy a lot of Isopryl Alcohol.

Where do you live? Isopropyl alcohol can also used to turn cannabis leaves into resin to smoke it. Thats probably why. I buy in dollorama store here.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Pretty sure that laptop could be good with a memory upgrade and a dualcore pentium instead of celeron.

I actually will use it for parts - I talked to a friend and he's going to try and get for me a broken Aspire 5749 which just needs RAM,HDD and keyboard as the rest of it is fine.

My old 5349 is on it's last legs,as I've COMPLETELY lost audio. Also it has some weird problem that the screen goes white with a replacement screen but works fine on external VGA.

 

[STIG_ZA]

Really need to post some more stuff. Picked up a bunch of parts, including a new board for my AthlonXP system.........now it lives again

Here is the athlon xp system:

AMD athlon xp 2500+ (barton, 1.83Ghz, 333mhz fsb)
1Gb DDR 400(2x transcend jet ram 256mb, 1x transcend jet ram 512mb)
Gigabyte GA-7vt600L motherboard.
Gigabyte radeon 9600 pro(256mb)
1x lg dvd rom. 1x lg cd rom
80gb seagate barracuda 7200.7
250Watt Aopen psu
windows xp pro sp3.

It was once the family pc, and the only way i could get to play games like battlefield 1942, Vietnam and doom3. Used to be stuck in a smaller case with no place for fans so ran really hot most of the time, then the lightning took out the onboard lan as well as making the system a little unstable......think the south bridge got damaged as well.

A little while ago it just died completely. But recently found a beat up old case an it in was an identical motherboard and dead 2600+, board needed two new caps and was good to go though.


Have these two dead motherboards now. The cpu in the nforce board is still ok(athlon xp 2000+) but the 2600+ in the board on the left seems toast. Wish the nforce board worked, would have been good for some overclocking.

 

[Trekkie4]

Isopropyl alcohol too can make job and compared to wd40 it evapotes and dont leave an oily greasy film.

True, good point... However, I've tried experimenting with both alcohol and WD-40, and can easily say that WD-40 works much better. Isopropyl alcohol will only make the thermal material softer, but it won't dissolve it entirely, you still have to scrape it off the CPU and the heatsink. WD-40 on the other hand will completely dissolve TM, and it's going to leave a nice & shiny finish. I repeat however, when you use WD-40, make sure you wipe it clean (and dry) afterwards. Not really that difficult, considering all the surfaces are completely smooth & plastic (and/or metal) WD-40 is also good for removing the glue residue (from the insulating tape, for example), soldering marks (flux and burn marks on the PCB), and pretty much everything else in that category

In my experience our local pharmacist gets very suspicious and asks a lot of questions if you buy a lot of Isopryl Alcohol.

We don't have that kind of problem over here, but I suppose that's one more reason to use WD-40 over the isopropyl alcohol

Really need to post some more stuff. Picked up a bunch of parts, including a new board for my AthlonXP system.........now it lives again

Here is the athlon xp system:

AMD athlon xp 2500+ (barton, 1.83Ghz, 333mhz fsb)
1Gb DDR 400(2x transcend jet ram 256mb, 1x transcend jet ram 512mb)
Gigabyte GA-7vt600L motherboard.
Gigabyte radeon 9600 pro(256mb)
1x lg dvd rom. 1x lg cd rom
80gb seagate barracuda 7200.7
250Watt Aopen psu
windows xp pro sp3.

It was once the family pc, and the only way i could get to play games like battlefield 1942, Vietnam and doom3. Used to be stuck in a smaller case with no place for fans so ran really hot most of the time, then the lightning took out the onboard lan as well as making the system a little unstable......think the south bridge got damaged as well.

A little while ago it just died completely. But recently found a beat up old case an it in was an identical motherboard and dead 2600+, board needed two new caps and was good to go though.


Have these two dead motherboards now. The cpu in the nforce board is still ok(athlon xp 2000+) but the 2600+ in the board on the left seems toast. Wish the nforce board worked, would have been good for some overclocking.

I know how you feel... I also have a system from my childhood, which (once, long time ago) used to be a family system. It's a Pentium 2 350MHz, and it originally came with Voodoo2 card (in October 1998). This thing has been used, abused, beaten, moved and taken apart so many times that I'm absolutely amazed it still works, even today! Mobo is Chaintech 6BTM, Slot-1 and is one of few components inside which actually remained the same, from the 1st day we got it. Unfortunately, I've decided to upgrade the system some time in 2006, so I took out the original memory, Voodoo2 card (12mb) and ATI Rage IIC (AGP, primary aka 2D card) I don't remember what happened to those (so I wasn't able to put them back), but I managed to find everything online & restore the system to factory specs, everything apart from the original case

As for the Athlons, I recently got Athlon 2400 & was absolutely amazed with what this thing is capable of! Paired up with GeForce 6200 (AGP) and 768mb of RAM, I was able to play Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Episode 1 and 2 at decent frame rate, although the final episode (Ep2) was lagging a little bit so I had to lower the settings. But still, it looks absolutely amazing for a 10yr old system, something which I got for free!

 

[Random Murderer]

Finally put back together an old computer my father brought. Didn't even know if it worked.
View attachment 61717
In all it's glory, with stupid headers and power plugs that couldn't be disconnected. I literally had to cut off some of the bump on the motherboard connector, because the floppy connector prevented me from opening the clip on the plug. The USB and front audio connectors were in loose pins, and the motherboard didn't sport standard headers. So I used a multimeter to figure how to connect front USB. and gave up on front audio.
View attachment 61721
Drive and memory:
View attachment 61718 View attachment 61719
And VRM on both sides of the board. Also, wierd yellow IDE cable.
View attachment 61722

Looks like you've got some bulging caps between the 4pin CPU power and the heatsink on the corner of the board. Power filter caps?

Where do you live? Isopropyl alcohol can also used to turn cannabis leaves into resin to smoke it. Thats probably why. I buy in dollorama store here.

Leave it to a Canadian...

Really need to post some more stuff. Picked up a bunch of parts, including a new board for my AthlonXP system.........now it lives again

Here is the athlon xp system:

AMD athlon xp 2500+ (barton, 1.83Ghz, 333mhz fsb)
1Gb DDR 400(2x transcend jet ram 256mb, 1x transcend jet ram 512mb)
Gigabyte GA-7vt600L motherboard.
Gigabyte radeon 9600 pro(256mb)
1x lg dvd rom. 1x lg cd rom
80gb seagate barracuda 7200.7
250Watt Aopen psu
windows xp pro sp3.

It was once the family pc, and the only way i could get to play games like battlefield 1942, Vietnam and doom3. Used to be stuck in a smaller case with no place for fans so ran really hot most of the time, then the lightning took out the onboard lan as well as making the system a little unstable......think the south bridge got damaged as well.

A little while ago it just died completely. But recently found a beat up old case an it in was an identical motherboard and dead 2600+, board needed two new caps and was good to go though.


Have these two dead motherboards now. The cpu in the nforce board is still ok(athlon xp 2000+) but the 2600+ in the board on the left seems toast. Wish the nforce board worked, would have been good for some overclocking.

Nice old Giga boards and sweet nostalgic rig!

 

[MaxiPro800]

Have these two dead motherboards now. The cpu in the nforce board is still ok(athlon xp 2000+) but the 2600+ in the board on the left seems toast. Wish the nforce board worked, would have been good for some overclocking.

Try replacing the three caps near the I/O ports on the nForce board and see if it posts. If you don't know which caps I talk about,they're the ones that have a Mercedes like stamp/vent/bung.

 

[agent00skid]

Looks like you've got some bulging caps between the 4pin CPU power and the heatsink on the corner of the board. Power filter caps?

I agree, they do look a bit bad. But it works, and I don't have the tools to fix it anyway.

 

[GreiverBlade]

just a small update the original post is http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/your-pc-atm.65012/page-1074#post-3222951

 

[STIG_ZA]

I know how you feel... I also have a system from my childhood, which (once, long time ago) used to be a family system. It's a Pentium 2 350MHz, and it originally came with Voodoo2 card (in October 1998). This thing has been used, abused, beaten, moved and taken apart so many times that I'm absolutely amazed it still works, even today! Mobo is Chaintech 6BTM, Slot-1 and is one of few components inside which actually remained the same, from the 1st day we got it. Unfortunately, I've decided to upgrade the system some time in 2006, so I took out the original memory, Voodoo2 card (12mb) and ATI Rage IIC (AGP, primary aka 2D card) I don't remember what happened to those (so I wasn't able to put them back), but I managed to find everything online & restore the system to factory specs, everything apart from the original case

As for the Athlons, I recently got Athlon 2400 & was absolutely amazed with what this thing is capable of! Paired up with GeForce 6200 (AGP) and 768mb of RAM, I was able to play Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Episode 1 and 2 at decent frame rate, although the final episode (Ep2) was lagging a little bit so I had to lower the settings. But still, it looks absolutely amazing for a 10yr old system, something which I got for free!

Yep those pc's from childhood always have some sentimental value. Still have my first pc(200mhz mmx). sadly dont have the pc i had at the time of the family athlon, it was a 500mhz k6-2........ancient at the time, but miss it

These old athlonXP's are surprising. Ran 3dmark 01 on this one and the 2.8 ghz p4HT i posted here a while back. The Athlon was only about 200 points behind.

Try replacing the three caps near the I/O ports on the nForce board and see if it posts. If you don't know which caps I talk about,they're the ones that have a Mercedes like stamp/vent/bung.

Will do. But what happens when powered up is that the south bridge gets insanely hot followed by lots of nothing. will still give it a try though, would be a really nice board.