TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Greenslade]

Was that the one with the big picture showing XP Pirate edition?

That was what someone else put on there ,that was not me.

I remember that post and it seems to be gone. TPU can not be seen as promoting piracy, nor can they allow such from their user base.

There is of course a difference between using a custom config Windows installer, which is perfectly legal fair-use and clearly pirated materials(or materials that promote such) which is not fair-use.

Careful in future what you post mates.

For the sake of nostalgia I have taken all of my 3DFX wallpapers and remade them into 16:9 2160p images. See attached images or the ZIP file for them all!
Once again, I make no claims to ownership. Just reworked them for everyone's enjoyment.
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That was not me ,it was someone else,who posted that. i never mentiond anything about pirating stuff.It has gone but that was nothing to do with what i said.

 

[lexluthermiester]

That was what someone else put on there ,that was not me.

True. It was Firefox and it's still there, I just didn't look back far enough.

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Lol I didn't try haha I am curious if it would work.. I bet it would..

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Greenslade]

True. It was Firefox and it's still there, I just didn't look back far enough.

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Lol I didn't try haha I am curious if it would work.. I bet it would..

www.techpowerup.com

No problem Lex

 

[Audioave10]

NEW HW FOUND!!!

1. AOpen AX6BC Intel 440BX + Pentium II 400MHzv SL357
2. Supermicro / Super Micro H8DAE REV:2.01 - Dual S940 Opteron - It needs a lot of repairs but nothing too complicated. Lots of missing ceramic caps, a few bent electrolytic caps and some RAM socket clips that are damaged. All fixable. https://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/8131/H8DAE.cfm. In any case I have no CPUs to test it. All I have is one FX51 and one FX53 S940 CPUs.
3. Asus A7N8X + AMD Athlon XP 2600+ AXDA2600DKV3D - one missing ceramic cap.
4. MSI ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB - in pretty bad shape, missing the backplate clip. RX9800PRO-TD128
5. 3dfx VooDoo Banshee - ELSA VICTORY II-A16
6. Albatron Gefroce FX 5600XT 128MB - FX5600XTP - it needs a few ceramic caps.
7. Asus A7A266 Rev 1.03 + Athlon 1.4GHz Thunderbird A1400AMS3C - The motherboard it's missing two plastic prongs from the CPU socket and it needs a socket replacement. The Athlon has a massively damaged die but it works flawlessly. I bought the motherboard for spare parts but when I saw that it works, I quickly changed my mind! I even have a devious plan to change the socket without desoldering.
8. AMD Duron 1.3GHz DHD1300AMT1B
9. Pentium 133MHz SK106
10. ASUS P5A SS7 - I wasn't expecting this gem to pop up but it did!!!
11. Creative CT6950 PCI - nVIDIA Vanta 32MB PCI - a Vanta but with a core from a TNT 2.
12. nVIDIA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB PCI-E - in fully working condition! - A pretty rare sight in this neck of the woods!

That black PCB on the 8800GTX is looking nice! That's a rare find these days.

 

[Robert B]

It had some rust and signs of water contamination but I did my magic(some anti rust solution on the screws and some on solder pads) and the rust is gone. The water damage was localized only on the aluminium heatsink.

I didn't take it apart as I need fresh thermal pads.

When I saw it POST and running well my eyes popped out! KSI - Lamborghini (Explicit) ft. P Money This was quite a monster of the card about 15 years ago. DAMN TIME FLIES!!! To me it seems like it was yesterday ...

In other turn of events the GW 6800 ULTRA shows artefacts like there is no tomorrow. The shock it sustained has damaged the solder balls from the video memory.

Also the Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 PRO AIW has damaged solder balls on the the video memory. If I twist the PCB the image is clear, if I leave it as it is, it shows artefacts.

I keep these for the future when I'll buy soldering equipment and maybe I'll start a YT channel ... who knows what's in store for me and you ...

 

[Audioave10]

You may have to perform Miracles (again). My GTX470 & GTX480 have black PCB's, but otherwise, only other I've found was this GT240.

 

[Ruru]

My uncle called and said that he's bringing some junk later today. I'll post here what I'll get

The last time I got a HP dc7600c (P4 640, 2.5GB DDR2, upgraded to D925, 3GB DDR2, 7800 GT) and a GeForce FX 5600 XT

Alright So I got a monitor (Dell P2412H), hella lot of different RAM (SO-DIMM and DIMM, it takes forever to check those since there's a LOT of RAM sticks!), two crappy PCIe GPUs, a TNT2 M64, 250GB 2.5" HDD, 120GB SSD, an USB hub with powered connectors and other shit. I'll check those better later on. I hope there's 3x4GB DDR3-1600 so I could upgrade my 2nd rig to 18GB to 24GB

 

[Trekkie4]

It really is a nice board, I'd love to get it up & running again! Not sure I'll be able to, of course but considering the number of "NO" across the board, I was expecting it to burst up in flames as soon as I power it up or something

Well, so much for QDI PA61... Unfortunately I can't seem to pinpoint the exact problem, and so even after recapping all the caps & cleaning the board it seems to be having issues. I can get it to boot Win98 but then it simply hangs and all the hell breaks loose.

Thanks to @r0x, we were able to locate the problem which seems to be related to Super I/O chip ... or at least one of the voltages corresponding to it. Since neither Floppy OR Serial ports seem to be working, but everything else does. Of course, Super I/O chip regulates those two where all the other I/O outputs are controlled by NB and SB chipsets and yet those are working perfectly fine.

Furthermore, ATX power switch still doesn't work, and I'm reading approx. 1.3V across the pins, where it should have been 5.0V. So... If you have any ideas, I'm open for suggestions!

 

[Audioave10]

My XP PC is in the old Corsair 600T case. Its very open and cool-running, but difficult to clean.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I hope there's 3x4GB DDR3-1600 so I could upgrade my 2nd rig to 18GB to 24GB

There you go! For that rig it'll be the last RAM upgrade you need.

 

[Ruru]

Yay! Bought a Xeon case sticker from ebay, though it's a modern one but it's still fit for my X58 setup

 

[Greenslade]

Can anyone help me with this, I am at a loss I tried to get XP on my pc without success,
Unfortunately with all that stuff, I did try to get XP on my PC. It seems to have mucked up my Windows10 which is on another drive. I could not get it to boot, it said it needed to repair it, in the end,
all I got was flickering from this - to the dell startup boot-up screen.to -?:I have a Dell Windows7 disc just installed it but no internet connection no Ethernet controller and no GPU showing my question is
Do you have to sign in to Connect to a broadband connection? Or will that make no difference to install
I have found the BT stuff but no password.I just run the DELL drivers disc and says this Dell PC is not a Dell PC weird?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Can anyone help me with this, I am at a loss I tried to get XP on my pc without success,
Unfortunately with all that stuff, I did try to get XP on my PC. It seems to have mucked up my Windows10 which is on another drive. I could not get it to boot, it said it needed to repair it, in the end,
all I got was flickering from this - to the dell startup boot-up screen.to -?:I have a Dell Windows7 disc just installed it but no internet connection no Ethernet controller and no GPU showing my question is
Do you have to sign in to Connect to a broadband connection? Or will that make no difference to install
I have found the BT stuff but no password.I just run the DELL drivers disc and says this Dell PC is not a Dell PC weird?

You'll need to start a help thread on this problem.

 

[DR4G00N]

Tried out Win 10 21H2 on my Skulltrail setup for fun, works remarkably well for a 13 year old platform and installed without any issues.
Paired with a GTX 1050 it can even playback 4K youtube videos smoothly and it only having PCIE 1.1 doesn't seem to hold it back much if at all.
Had to dial the cpu's back to 3.8GHz instead of 4GHz though because the NB was getting too hot for 420 FSB to run stable (the stock NB heatsink is bad even with it's own fan).

If it had an SSD instead of the 160GB HDD I'm using this could be a totally useable snappy daily system, well other than the power consumption that is, probably near 200W @ idle.

The board does support UEFI boot so it should actually work with an nvme pcie ssd boot drive, too bad I have neither of those things to test it out.



Considering it doesn't have AVX it does pretty well.

 

[FireFox]

Before

After

Couldn't do much with the cable management.

I disassembled the GPU + CPU cooler and cleaned it, also applied new thermal paste wherever it was needed, replaced the old mismatched Ram with a new one i had laying around.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Before

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After
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Couldn't do much with the cable management.

I disassembled the GPU + CPU cooler and cleaned it, also applied new thermal paste wherever it was needed, replaced the old mismatched Ram with a new one i had laying around.

Very nice clean up! If you're willing to invest a little bit in the build, I would recommend a pair of 120mm fans(LED/RGB if you like) for the vent(front & back) to keep things as cool as you can. Maybe something like these might suit you;

Amazon.com

Or if you want some RGB;

Amazon.com

Also, if you want to keep the functionality of that IDE ODD, you can get a set of round IDE cables to help keep cable management tidy and looking good.
Something like the following would work well with the internals of that case;

Amazon.com

 

[FireFox]

Very nice clean up! If you're willing to invest a little bit in the build, I would recommend a pair of 120mm fans(LED/RGB if you like) for the vent(front & back) to keep things as cool as you can. Maybe something like these might suit you;

The build was incomplete when i posted the last pic, i have lot of Noctua NF-F12 iPPC-2000, installed 2 of them, now it sounds like a real WXP Computer

i am insecure but maybe i will get something like this:

Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01​

I couldn't resist to increase the CPU clock speed

Also, if you want to keep the functionality of that IDE ODD, you can get a set of round IDE cables to help keep cable management tidy and looking good.
Something like the following would work well with the internals of that case;

Amazon.com

Couldn't find it

 

[Trekkie4]

Before

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After
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Couldn't do much with the cable management.

I disassembled the GPU + CPU cooler and cleaned it, also applied new thermal paste wherever it was needed, replaced the old mismatched Ram with a new one i had laying around.

Just curious... What's with that ground strap, tied to one of the CD/DVD mounting screws?

 

[FireFox]

Just curious... What's with that ground strap, tied to one of the CD/DVD mounting screws?

It's from the Power supply.

 

[Trekkie4]

It's from the Power supply.

Weird... Never seen ATX PSU with ground strap before. Usually the unit casing itself is grounded, which then (once it's placed inside the case & screwed in position) will be in direct touch with all the metal surfaces & therefore ground the entire case.

I did however see older "AT" styled power supplies which used to have dedicated ground strap, which is understandable - since they had a separate live-voltage cable going from back of the case to the front panel power switch.

 

[FireFox]

The PSU is pretty old, around ( 2002 ) or even older, that explains a lot.

 

[Trekkie4]

The PSU is pretty old, around ( 2002 ) or even older, that explains a lot.

Not necessarily, I'm still using some of the older Codegen-branded units from around 1998, 1999 today and none of them had a ground strap In fact, just the opposite really ... 2002 is quite modern by my standards.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Weird... Never seen ATX PSU with ground strap before.

It was uncommon but had a purpose.

 

[stinger608]

Yeah, I've seen a few power supplies with the little grounding wire. Haven't for many years, but I've seen a few.

 

[Mr.Scott]

In other turn of events the GW 6800 ULTRA shows artefacts like there is no tomorrow. The shock it sustained has damaged the solder balls from the video memory.

Also the Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 PRO AIW has damaged solder balls on the the video memory. If I twist the PCB the image is clear, if I leave it as it is, it shows artefacts.

I keep these for the future when I'll buy soldering equipment and maybe I'll start a YT channel ... who knows what's in store for me and you ...

Bake 'em.
Got nothing to lose.