TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[basco]

is this the stock northbridge cooler on the Abit NF7 2.0 ?

 

[Caring1]

is this the stock northbridge cooler on the Abit NF7 2.0 ?

It looks like it, I used to have an old Abit board with that style cooler.

 

[Bungz]

Nope.

Stock should be similar to the KV8 Max3 I posted above. They had a tendency to whine and become noisey and eventually die so it was common to swap them.

The one on the Max3 was actually seized solid as the grease had hardened, some light machine oil and it is ok again but often they still rattle as the crappy sleeve bearings wear out.

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

Nope.

Stock should be similar to the KV8 Max3 I posted above. They had a tendency to whine and become noisey and eventually die so it was common to swap them.

The one on the Max3 was actually seized solid as the grease had hardened, some light machine oil and it is ok again but often they still rattle as the crappy sleeve bearings wear out.

I ordered a brand new replacement fan for the NB cooler of my old trusty IC7-MAX3.

 

[Bungz]

Yeah you can get replacements far easier now than back in the day.

And it keeps the boards looking as they did new, love the Max3 boards even if the 754 one is absolute bobbins for clocking.

I think the IC7 variant would be quite fun with the right cpu

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

Yeah you can get replacements far easier now than back in the day.

And it keeps the boards looking as they did new, love the Max3 boards even if the 754 one is absolute bobbins for clocking.

I think the IC7 variant would be quite fun with the right cpu

I have a P4 3.4EE GHz Gallatin core on there!

 

[biffzinker]

is this the stock northbridge cooler on the Abit NF7 2.0 ?

Yes, had the board myself but the one Bungz is using has a VIA chipset.

 

[Bungz]

NF7-S

AN7

KV7

AN8 SLI

Tons of boards used that lousy thing, Abit must have got a bulk deal on them

 

[Bungz]

Picked up a socket 7 board, brand new.

Sadly FIC chose some ultra cheap capacitors and they had all shit their guts out.

Had the parts in so thought I would see if the electrolyte had eaten into the pcb.

Alcohol wipes and a bit of scrubbing..

Full of new Panasonic caps..

Better than new and might have a chance of lasting another 20 years

 

[biffzinker]

Correction: I had the Abit NF7-S, the Athlon XP 2500+ overclocked to 2.3 GHz, and two 512 MB Corsair DDR400.

 

[Bungz]

I have a couple of AN7 boards that I repaired as they had failed Nichicon HM series capacitors ( all go bad) but haven't been able to find a clean NF7 yet, ones I have seen are ££ and look shagged.

 

[Robert B]

I managed to find the missing piece of the 5x86 puzzle My first motherboard! Zida Tomato Board 4DPS 2.11 - plus some extras .

Now I'll have the motherboard+cpu+cooler+ram+hdd+vga+ODD+case = MY QUEST which started over two years ago IS COMPLETED!!!!

Actually the 5x86 started all this "madness"

Full story later this week!

 

[Trekkie4]

Picked up the unknown S478 machine earlier today, which turned out to be Celeron (again?!), but it was packed with awesome goodies! Asus P4S533-MX was one of them, which is kinda funny (and totally appropriate), since I also have P4S533-X in my collection! In fact, it's paired with none other than GeForce4 Ti4800 SE itself and is running P4 @ 2.00GHz. This one on the other hand had a Celeron with the same clock speed (2.00), so I'll definitely have to source something better!


This Aopen (rebranded Pioneer?) was other one, I always wanted to experience one of these "slot-in" optical drives! It wasn't working, so I pulled it apart, wiped the lens & then put it back together again, and it's working beautifully! The ejection mechanism inside is absurd, extremely complicated piece of engineering but with that being said, it DOES work so I'm holding onto it!

Also got some (sad) news regarding that S775 machine, running the Pentium 4 Prescott. I finally took the liberty of swapping out the power supply for another one from the system above and no, the garbled and pixelated image is till there regardless of the PSU and/or new RAM modules. As if that wasn't enough, some of the caps seem to be bulging yet again, so maybe I should give up on this one & just throw it into e-waste *shrug*

 

[Bungz]

Has it previously been repaired the board with the bad caps?

 

[Trekkie4]

You mean old, used ones? Nope, those are brand new ones, from the store. Already started bulging without any apparent reason. Well, some of them are, anyway. Not all of them, so I can only assume something is shorting the circuitry and/or pulling too much current. Might give it another shot at recapping (all other caps, which remained original) but really, at this point I'd probably be better with another one.

On a side note, I finally got my batch of 3GB of DDR400 RAM from China today! (3x 1GB) Cheap as peanuts, AND comes with free shipping!

 

[Bungz]

What brand of caps?

Could always get a multi meter out and see what is going on but if the volts were high enough to cause the caps to fail so quickly I would expect things down the line to go pop sooner. Caps are usually pretty hardy things unless they are incorrect or of poor quality.

 

[micropage7]

Picked up a socket 7 board, brand new.

Sadly FIC chose some ultra cheap capacitors and they had all shit their guts out.

Had the parts in so thought I would see if the electrolyte had eaten into the pcb.

Alcohol wipes and a bit of scrubbing..

Full of new Panasonic caps..

Better than new and might have a chance of lasting another 20 years

my first pc was with FIC board, pentium I
what a day

 

[micropage7]

at least its quadro
fx 3700

 

[Bungz]

Biggest problem is finding a AT case for it, not easy to come across!

 

[dorsetknob]

lots of case's are provisioned for either AT or ATX
so it should not be a problem
your more lightly to have AT PSU location problems

 

[micropage7]

Biggest problem is finding a AT case for it, not easy to come across!

lots of case's are provisioned for either AT or ATX
so it should not be a problem
your more lightly to have AT PSU location problems

it looks pretty long but ive tested it, i can put it in stock case

 

[Trekkie4]

What brand of caps?

Could always get a multi meter out and see what is going on but if the volts were high enough to cause the caps to fail so quickly I would expect things down the line to go pop sooner. Caps are usually pretty hardy things unless they are incorrect or of poor quality.

That's true, and I would normally agree on every word you said. HOWEVER, this thing started bulging (for the 2nd time) from the same point of origin as it did the last time. I can tell just by the amount of damage on the caps themselves, since the most amount of damage on the old ones was around the audio output header, these caps completely "exploded" & leaked (where the other ones simply bulged).

And this time I'm getting the same problem, except these ones are still working, didn't explode or bulge all the way, but it's getting there. So really, there has to be something else going on with the board, and now I'm also getting damage on other areas, such as AGP for example. So I'm not quite sure it's worth the additional repairs, especially since I already invested some cash (and patience) for the previous repairs

 

[Robert B]

Sneak peak!

More later

gallery: https://postimg.org/gallery/2tmujk32a/

 

[Mr.Scott]

Killed my BE6-II yesterday. I'll miss that board.
RIP

 

[Trekkie4]

Let me guess ... capacitor issues? I know there's a lot of Abit fans out there, and that's understandable but oh boy! When it comes to dead caps, Abit definitely takes the #1 place! At least their older models did, such as BE6-II.

Just curious, did yours tend to automatically switch itself on randomly? Mine would do so from time to time & then one day, while I was playing NFS3 Hot Pursuit suddenly locked out, the keyboard stopped working even though the actual game was still running in the background. And of course, when I rebooted the system it didn't want to boot up any longer Had EXACTLY the same problem on both BE6 & BE6-II, but I was able to save the MkII one, where the original (BE6) ended up in trash.