TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[E-Bear]

So here's my early 90's brand for 80's car speakers. They also made accessories like tape decks, floor shifters etc. Even some older Ford like the Escort GT had Sparkomatic brand speakers. Here's 2 commercials to bring back memories.

 

[lexluthermiester]

So here's my early 90's brand for 80's car speakers.

Not sure car speakers qualify.. I guess it's all good though.

 

[E-Bear]

Not sure car speakers qualify.. I guess it's all good though.

It could be used as retro set for home system.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It could be used as retro set for home system.

Like an old school Dolby Prologic system? The OHMs difference might be a problem.

 

[E-Bear]

Like an old school Dolby Prologic system? The OHMs difference might be a problem.

No these speakers are 4 ohms and the sound system radio and amp will be 4 ohms too

 

[Robert B]

• EPOX EP-7KXA V1.04
• AMD SLOT A 650MHz - AMD-K7650MTR51B A
• Quantum LCT 15 - 15GB
• WD200BB - WD 20GB
• FDD
• RAM
• Inno3D TNT2 M64 32MB
• Creative Labs SB0150 Sound Blaster PCI 512 - SB0150

A gift from my best friend. Free stuff IS ALWAYS NICE! Especially if SLOT A is involved.

 

[lexluthermiester]

EPOX EP-7KXA V1.04

One of the nicer boards made for slot one.

AMD SLOT A 650MHz - AMD-K7650MTR51B A

If memory serves, that is one of the CPU's that could go to 1ghz@133fsb will only a minor bump in voltage, which it could easily handle.

Quantum LCT 15 - 15GB

Those were good drives! Bet it still work great too.

Creative Labs SB0150 Sound Blaster PCI 512 - SB0150

That is an increasingly rare card. Basically a slimmed down version of the SB Live. Good card.

That friend of yours hooked you up! Score!

 

[hat]

@MaxiPro800 nice work on the PS3. I was gifted a problematic PS3 a while back. It wasn't dead, but I was told it required a fan blowing on it for it to work for any length of time. Knowing this, I tore it apart, cleaned it, re-pasted it (with MX-4 I believe) and drilled holes in the top cover where the fan is so it can easily pull in cool air. Since I did that, I haven't had issues with it. It's jailbroken as well.

 

[Bungz]

Anyone else attracted to Poverty spec single channel socket A Nforce2 boards?

No?

Not even a Purple Soltek one

Bum caps need sorting, god knows where my soldering gear is having just moved house.

 

[dorsetknob]

Don't forget your Thin Needle nose pliers
Check out the IDE and Floppy pins

 

[Robert B]

Those caps on the Soltek board look slightly better than mine.

I will recap the entire EPOX EP-7KXA board with PANASONIC FR caps. When I mean all of the caps I mean all 48 of them. The PANASONIC FR caps are miles above the crap currently on the board.

The replacement caps will arrive this week but it will take a while until I'll solder them. Luckily the STONE L.E.S.R. 2200uf/10V bloated caps didnt damage the board when they went bye bye. I removed 18 of them. The other caps are reputable brands like TAYEH LG/RB and GSC. HIGH QUALITY STUFF!!!

The K7 650MHz has an 800Mhz core. (I REALLY NEED A Gold Finger Device...but they are rarer than hens' teeth )

BAD CAPS ERA is back with a vengeance!

 

[lexluthermiester]

The K7 650MHz has an 800Mhz core. (I REALLY NEED A Gold Finger Device...but they are rarer than hens' teeth )

IIRC(someone correct me if wrong) that board, once it's up and running, has an FSB based OC in the bios, which you don't need a goldfinger for. So if you change the FSB from 100mhz to 133mhz, adjust the voltage slightly, and drop the multiplier to 5.5 or 5 instead 6.5.

EDIT; Self correction, found the manual and it seems this model doesn't have the FSB OC. I was thinking of a different board.
Here's the manual in case you need it;
https://soggi.org/files/motherboards/manual/epox/EP7KXA.zip
And here's the page it came from;
https://soggi.org/motherboards/epox/EP-7KXA.htm

 

[Robert B]

Thanks!

I have already updated the BIOS with the file from the same site using my BIOS programmer.

This KX133 motherboard is special for me because it is the only one I have ATM.

I have three irongate motherboards(two ASUS K7M REV1.04 - one a with a later revision chipset with Super Bypass and the other with an earlier chipset revision W/O Super Bypass, one PC-CHIPS M800LMR V1.3A) and I really wanted a KX133 one.

The EPOX EP-7KXA is the most abundant model where I live. In the last year I saw around 4 systems with this particular board and only one ASUS K7V-T.

 

[Susquehannock]

Anyone else attracted to Poverty spec single channel socket A Nforce2 boards?

No?

Not even a Purple Soltek one

View attachment 116724

Bum caps need sorting, god knows where my soldering gear is having just moved house.

Purple Ray day.

 

[Robert B]

Deep Protoss voice: Carrier has arrived! Carrier has arrived

 

[Ahhzz]

Just helped the boss solder in a cap on a Vizio soundbar yesterday, tons o' fun

 

[Robert B]

I removed all the junk. It took me around an hour and a half. Now I can do it faster as I have enough exprience under my belt.

The MS-6168 also required a full recap but the EP-7KXA is bigger and has more capacitors. By now I'm confident that I can tackle any recap task without headaches.

Next week I'll get to solder the Panasonic FR caps and pray that the motherboard is alive. I wasnt able to test it before I started this massive job.

The CPU has been cleaned and it is working well.

I've even repaired the ball bearing fan by opening the bearing and packing it with fresh grease. I read that it could be done and I wanted to try it. This is a fan that wont go into the bin.

The full story will be told on the Project Logs section. I'll post here the POST screen if the motherboard will be among the living.

 

[micropage7]

Anyone else attracted to Poverty spec single channel socket A Nforce2 boards?

No?

Not even a Purple Soltek one

View attachment 116724

Bum caps need sorting, god knows where my soldering gear is having just moved house.

Back around 2000s when i was in college soltek is my fav

 

[Susquehannock]

Been going through old files and found a lot of interesting images and screenshots. I was avid about saving things.

This pic (Aug 18th, 2003) brought back some memories. Had to be careful with those refurb board deals. This Soltek frn2-rl Golden Flame was $15 at NewEgg, if memory serves. Found a nice ball of solder wedged tightly under the socket tab. No way anyone had it working that way. These boards have no holes, so no bolt on cooler options. Decided to pop it out instead of dealing with a return since it appeared flawless otherwise. Turned out to be one of my best overclockers.

 

[Robert B]

Flea market day today.

• Cooler S423 complete with clips.
• Pentium 4 S423 1.6GHz - I have to clean it Monday and see the model number
• Pentium 133 SY022
• AMD 486DX2 66MHz - I have to clean it Monday and see the model number
• Heatsink + Clips
• SIMMs

4.2 EUROs for the lot

 

[Dinnercore]

Got two of these GPU coolers for 17€ total.

Don´t know if they are any good yet, but they might be useful for when I get more cards from 2003 and up.

'Cooler set for ACTUAL high-performance VGA cards'. So if the name is not on the list of compatible models, your card must be no good

 

[Splinterdog]

Half Life on an Athlon 700 with Voodoo II SLI.
I really enjoyed building this machine and the full tower was about to be binned, until I rescued it.

 

[Trekkie4]

Half Life on an Athlon 700 with Voodoo II SLI.
I really enjoyed building this machine and the full tower was about to be binned, until I rescued it.

A genuine Slot A Voodoo2 system... Now this is something that I always wanted to assemble, but never got around to finding Slot A motherboard, while I still had the chance

Enjoy the moment & (most importantly), have fun!

 

[agent_x007]

Longevity at it's finest :

64GB of SLC NAND

Obligatory SSD tests :

 

[8bitgamer757]

I'm getting a ThunkPad today pics coming when i get home

So i got a beautiful IBM ThinkPad T22,, i am currently installing Windows XP Pro on it and need to get a bunch of drivers takenn care of after that. It has a 900Mhz Pentium!!! processor, 256Mb of pre-DDR ram a 20Gb HDD and a CD-RW DVD-ROM drive, will post updates as I progress through my journey