TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[JunkBear]

No @JunkBear they did not have either 512m or 1 gig Cache i suspect you meant 512 Kb Cache or 1 meg (1024kb ) cache

Yup my mistake so same question but corrected.

 

[dorsetknob]

Just think that if they ever did one with 1 gig cache how great that would have been
you could have loaded os into cache and then that chip would have beaten any intel chip ah dreams and fuck skylake

 

[Trekkie4]

Gyus, be careful playing with windows 7. I have installed it on my old pc, everything worked fine. I ran Osu!, played for a moment. Suddenly freezee appeared and noise in a headphones. After restarting PC I had problems with booting operating system, after boot audio card was undetected, or detected but playback is impossible.
Creative SoundBlaster 128 PCI (1998 - 2015) [*]

Hmmm... Time to check the working condition of your PSU and/or motherboard caps IMHO. Either that, or simply died due to "old age" Either way, it's a real shame, although 128s can be easily replaced, there's tons of those all around (even today)

Edit
Just curious, did you try to re-seat the card and/or cleaning the PCI interface pins?

Edit2
Been upgrading an old Pentium III, 800 for someone I know. I knew the video card was way, waaay outdated even for XP standards (TNT2 Vanta, M64) but upon closer inspection I found something really unusual inside. Apparently this system had a "DVD accelerator" card, for watching DVD movies on a system without built-in hardware support. The only thing is, it hooks directly to TNT2 via internal floppy-like ribbon cable. Now here's the catch - yes, I'm familiar with DXR2 cards, I even used to have one laying around but they used external VGA-VGA jumper cable, just like Voodoo1 & 2 did. While this particular model doesn't have any external connections, other than RCA & S-VHS jacks. Model number is CT7160 if someone wants to take a look, I would really like to know how they compare to DXR-2 cards, is this one & the same or am I looking at something completely different? I took the entire assembly out (and will probably keep it to myself, seeing it would be useless for every-day usage nowdays) & replaced both 7160 & TNT2 with GeForce4 MX440

 

[Misaki]

Hmmm... Time to check the working condition of your PSU and/or motherboard caps IMHO. Either that, or simply died due to "old age" Either way, it's a real shame, although 128s can be easily replaced, there's tons of those all around (even today)

Edit
Just curious, did you try to re-seat the card and/or cleaning the PCI interface pins?

All capacitors on the motherboard are bad, but I don't have tools and money to replace it right now unfortunately

 

[Trekkie4]

All capacitors on the motherboard are bad, but I don't have tools and money to replace it right now unfortunately

I'm sorry to hear that, but there you have it - that's your problem. Voltage must have spiked up at some point, resulting with fried sound card... Which is most likely result due to bad PSU in the first place

 

[Misaki]

Sound card seems to be still broken (even if it works, but I can hear strange sounds coming from headphones), but I was suprised - Windows 7 has better performance than Windows XP on it!

 

[tabascosauz]

Does anyone have a Celeron 300A? Mendocino family, circa 1998? I just remembered that I had dug it up the second time I went into the very back of the office (the first time provided me with the Trio64 and Pentium II 233)...and that I completely forgot to bring it with me when I left for school.

There was this really nasty adhesive on the aluminum side of the CPU (socket 370). I thought it was thermal paste, until I chipped at the thick blobs on the edge with a pencil. It looked like a milky super glue at the edges, where some had formed drops; it was of no appreciable thickness on the actual aluminum heat spreader part, but it was clearly there because it was sticky. Anyone have any ideas on how to clean it off? I've cleaned the bigger blobs but chipping away but it's very annoying that the heat spreader part is sticky and nothing can clean that off. Water didn't work, the usual isopropyl alcohol didn't work either.

 

[dorsetknob]

@tabascosauz

I'll have a look 10 min ok

got celeron 300/66 SL2YP Covington core slot 1
http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SL/SL2YP.html

you want socket 370 ?

got some faster ones in socket 370

Right had a rummage and i have ( 4 ) socket 370 Cpu
they Are
( 2 ) P3 800 EB 256/133 SL464 ( 1.65v ) and P3 800 / 256/133 (1.7v ) SL4CD
( 1 ) Celeron 900/ 128 /100 1.75v SL5MQ ( 1.7v )
( 1 ) Celeron 366 /128 /66 SL35S ( 2v )

Thats what i have

 

[Trekkie4]

Does anyone have a Celeron 300A? Mendocino family, circa 1998? I just remembered that I had dug it up the second time I went into the very back of the office (the first time provided me with the Trio64 and Pentium II 233)...and that I completely forgot to bring it with me when I left for school.

There was this really nasty adhesive on the aluminum side of the CPU (socket 370). I thought it was thermal paste, until I chipped at the thick blobs on the edge with a pencil. It looked like a milky super glue at the edges, where some had formed drops; it was of no appreciable thickness on the actual aluminum heat spreader part, but it was clearly there because it was sticky. Anyone have any ideas on how to clean it off? I've cleaned the bigger blobs but chipping away but it's very annoying that the heat spreader part is sticky and nothing can clean that off. Water didn't work, the usual isopropyl alcohol didn't work either.

I would have to agree with dorsetknob on this one, AFAIK 300A was a Slot-1, only the better & newer models were distributed in S370 design. I do happen to have Celeron 300 in one of the boxes, and it's a Slot-1 design.

 

[dorsetknob]

I would have to agree with dorsetknob on this one, AFAIK 300A was a Slot-1

Also done in socket 370
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/Intel-Celeron 300 - FV80524RX300128 (FV524RX300 128).html

Slot 1 unlocked multiplier great for overclocking ( Set by dipswitches / jumpers on motherboard )
socket 370 locked Multiplier ( auto set in bios )

 

[Ahhzz]

Figured I might tap some of the bodies in here that don't frequent the wtb/wts forums. I've got what I believe is an old Enlight case for which I need some extra 3.5 rails (post here). they're small, about half what normal rails usually are for 5.25 drives, model on the side is 2CDIS005-0. Anyone here have an older case that might have some of these hanging out in it? Thanks!

** If it matters, additional research shows this may be an InWin case....

 

[stinger608]

You should probably post a pic or two @Ahhzz of the case in your WTB thread. It might help someone know for sure which case your looking for the parts in.

Also, I think years ago Enlight and InWin were sort of the same company. I think that InWin was the new name after a merger or something of that sort.

 

[Ahhzz]

You should probably post a pic or two @Ahhzz of the case in your WTB thread. It might help someone know for sure which case your looking for the parts in.

Also, I think years ago Enlight and InWin were sort of the same company. I think that InWin was the new name after a merger or something of that sort.

Thx Stinger, will do that

Little challenging to do at the moment, as I dismantled it to clean the "stuff" they had leaked into and all over it. Didn't take a lot of effort, but whatever happened, it spread everywhere heheh. I'm repurposing it right now as my server box, so I can (slowly) redo the current server (which has a swinging door, and wheels ). My only concern is that I don't think I'll be able to fit the second power supply in easily, which disappoints

 

[JunkBear]

Does anyone have a Celeron 300A? Mendocino family, circa 1998? I just remembered that I had dug it up the second time I went into the very back of the office (the first time provided me with the Trio64 and Pentium II 233)...and that I completely forgot to bring it with me when I left for school.

There was this really nasty adhesive on the aluminum side of the CPU (socket 370). I thought it was thermal paste, until I chipped at the thick blobs on the edge with a pencil. It looked like a milky super glue at the edges, where some had formed drops; it was of no appreciable thickness on the actual aluminum heat spreader part, but it was clearly there because it was sticky. Anyone have any ideas on how to clean it off? I've cleaned the bigger blobs but chipping away but it's very annoying that the heat spreader part is sticky and nothing can clean that off. Water didn't work, the usual isopropyl alcohol didn't work either.

Get a plastic scraper for applying plaster on walls and q can of automotive brakes cleaner.

 

[Trekkie4]

It's been a while since I posted any pics, so here's something to share & talk about...

First to start off with this Creative DVD encoder card. Still not sure what's the purpose of this thing (other than watching videos/DVD on a system without MPEG hardware support), or what's the difference between DXR-2 cards & this thing *shrug*



Just got this handheld scanner today... Almost mint condition, never been used from what I can tell! I'm tempted to hook it up, but then again why would I do such a thing, in the first place? Can't find any obvious purpose for this thing, other than to look awesome on the shelf. Besides, it's worth so much more in this condition, even if the actual scanner doesn't work. Which I'm sure it does, just saying

 

[dorsetknob]

@Trekkie4
got one similer Logitech Scanman for "DOS" Greyscale only
also have the Creative Encore DVD kit Less the malfunctioning DVD rom Drive

Will dig them both out and post Photo's for comparison

 

[Trekkie4]

@Trekkie4
got one similer Logitech Scanman for "DOS" Greyscale only
also have the Creative Encore DVD kit Less the malfunctioning DVD rom Drive

Will dig them both out and post Photo's for comparison

Cool! I never had a handheld scanner before, so this should be interesting! My 1st scanner was a flatbed one, Primax Colorado 600p which I successfully traded for 1200p shortly after... It was painfully slow, but it did its job, never had any problems! In fact, it's been working perfectly fine for years, up until I started using "All-in-one" HP machines, which I still use today.

 

[dorsetknob]

@Trekkie4
Dug it out of Storage and its Logitech Scanman Hand Held Scanner
Model 32 for IBM
Mine come's with Software on ( 2 ) 3 1/2" Floppys and ( 3 ) 5 1/4 " Floppys
A 16bit ISA Interface Card and the plug in hand held Scanner

Date 1989 ish ( Box Printed in Ireland ) so its over 25 years old and still in mint condition

Pic's here later

 

[Ahhzz]

You should probably post a pic or two @Ahhzz of the case in your WTB thread. It might help someone know for sure which case your looking for the parts in.

Also, I think years ago Enlight and InWin were sort of the same company. I think that InWin was the new name after a merger or something of that sort.

Ok, post updated Please guys, hate to crawl in the Nostalgia thread and drag people sideways, but you guys are the most likely to have seen or know where to find a few of these drive rails. Thanks!!

 

[Compgeke]

Not that old by my standards but still one of the oddities. GeForce 2 Ultra, back in the days where you had the GTS then you had this, and you should've just bought the GTS.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Sound card seems to be still broken (even if it works, but I can hear strange sounds coming from headphones), but I was suprised - Windows 7 has better performance than Windows XP on it!

Is that a socket 754 system? Or a AM2 one? I've got a Athlon 64 3000+ system runnning 7 Enterprise. It's on a green Epox EP-8KDA7I motherboard.

 

[Mr.Scott]

When's the last time you saw one of these?
GFD for slot A.

 

[AndreiCT]

Hi guys! I'm Andrei and i just discovered this awesome thread. I decided to join the forum and in my first post i will present my first PC. It's not quite vintage but it was purchased a decade ago on January 7, 2004. It was a custom build system.

Here are the specs:

Case: EMPEROR RJA52
Motherboard: DFI PS83-BL, Chipset Intel 865PE, FSB 800 MHz Hyper-Threading, 4 x Dual Channel DDR400, AGP8x, 5 x PCI, LAN, SATA, 6-channel audio, USB 2.0
Processor: Intel® Celeron® 2.40 GHz, Socket 478, Northwood, FSB 400 MHz, L2 Cache 128 Kb
Memory: PLUSS 256 MB DDR400 PC3200
Video Card: MSI GeForce4 MX 440 64 MB 64 bit AGP8x
Hard Disk: Western Digital Caviar SE WD400JB 40 GB, 7200 rpm, 8 MB Cache, IDE
Optical Drive: SONY CRX300E CD-R/RW/DVD-ROM Combo
TV Tuner: WAYJET WT-952TF-BK
Floppy: TEAC FDD 3.5"
Power Supply: ANS LC-B350 ATX 350W

And some pictures:

 

[Compgeke]

Decided to play with the PS/2 P70 today, actually put the ram expansion back in and throw the modem back in for some testing stuff.

Specs:
20 MHz Intel 386DX
12 MB RAM
120 MB HDD
VGA Graphics on an orangegas plasma screen
2400 baud modem

 

[Trekkie4]

Finally got around to finish that Soltek Red Storm, Athlon 1000 build from the 143rd page - even though I still have no idea what to do with It'll probably end up being a Windows ME system, since I only got 2 of those, everything else is either 95, 98 or XP Pics coming soon!

So yes, remember this one here?

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Yes, it was indeed a total mess when I 1st got this machine, but I've been slowly tweaking it over time, adding one component at the time. Yesterday I finally got the missing component, 20GB ATA HDD, so now it's time to set it up & finally see it in action



As you can tell, it looks SO much better than it was before IMHO, and was given Windows ME just like I said above. Cable management is kinda messy, but I didn't have any more time and/OR patience to mess around with it, looks decent enough to be considered "final" What do you guys think about it?

The "extra" sound card is Mercury KOB-884-E, just because I had one to use for this occasion (and also because it's 5.1 system), otherwise the on-board solution would have been more than enough. Oddly enough, I've tried using this card in one of my other builds & it's been giving me all kinds of problems, crashing the system, etc. I assumed it's fried, until I gave it one more, last try on this Soltek mobo & it worked OK! You figure it out...