TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[MaxiPro800]

Been tinkering with 1156 stuff (which is around a decade old at this point) and have managed to land on this nice one:

GB P55A-UD3
2x2GB DDR3 (for the moment, I plan on dropping at least 8 or 16GB if it supports it.)
GB Radeon HD7870 2GB GDDR5
ASUS PCI WLAN card
1TB Seagate ST31000524AS
Core i7 860 @ 2.8GHz + CM Hyper H412R HSF

The only thing that's buggering me is the HD7870 cuts off image randomly, and that happens on HDMI alone from what I experienced so far. DVI seems to have no issues (at the time of writing this post, I'm waiting on installing NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 to test the card out) but I'm keeping an wary eye on it.

The other two combos are an MSI P55-CD53 + i5 750, and a GB H55M-S2V + i3 540. Both are in need of RAM kits. The i5 received a R7 265 (HD7850) 2GB GDDR5, and I'm debating on whether I should pair my last powerful ATI card (a 512MB HD4850) with the i3, or reserve it for a 775 machine.

EDIT: Corrected MB model for the Gigabyte P55 board.

 

[Greenslade]

Are you using a regular spinning hard drive with the sata to ide adapter? Hard drives click when they are failing.
Sometimes fans click when they are still spinning, but failing. Can you verify all the fans that should be spinning are spinning, including the PSU GPU CPU.

Yes, I have the app that tells the health of the drives and that said it was good. I keep getting the message 861 it did that but Windows started up. See the health check on the HDD I see it is showing caution now looks like you are right there. The last time I checked it said it was ok. The problem is I tried putting the Os on the IDE drive but could not do it for some reason. The os was on the IDE drive when I got the PC I managed to get it on the one with the adapter and wiped the original one which had the OS on big mistake. The only other thing is to try and get 2000 or Me on a CF card I don,t know how to do it Lex said F disc could you give me a link on how to do it? That,s a weird connection on the PSU. I can,t see if the PSU is spinning or not. I think it is I put my ear up to its blowing. If the drive is on its way out would that be the cause of all the problems I am having with the PC? I wonder if there is any dust in the USB ports. I am trying to get XP on the IDE drive it was still saying no master or slave and yet it put the os on the drive. I did that twice and it did the same thing.So I removed the jumper from the drive it was on master and changed the IDE Cable, I am finally loading XP, it will take some time as it is an updated version of XP the integral version. I just hope the problems will be sorted out when I get the OS on the drive. If it does I might get another sound blaster card.It has stuck on the same place two times i tried it i will leave it for a bit .i don,t think it will work.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Got this Intel QX6700 Extreme Edition, EVGA 680i SLI, and Zalman CNPS 9000 online from a Goodwill.

Cleaned it up and removed a ton of dust from the northbridge and cooler. I had trouble getting all of the dust out of the cooler. I also rotated the heatsink 90°

As the sticker says, this board has some leaky caps.

I wasn't expecting it to function with the caps like that but it all seems to be functional.

I ordered replacement capacitors and i'll replace the leaky ones when they arrive. Additionally, the cooler does not lock into one of the 3 notched positions, I believe the "seesaw" bracket is possibly bent. It has decent mounting pressure but it has a few degree range of rotation as you can see in the first photo. Oh and I probably want to repaste the Northridge.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Bulged Rubycon MCZ. No wonder, those and their MFZ series were pretty sensitive to heat.

 

[Mr.Scott]

That,s a weird connection on the PSU.I can,t see if the PSU is spinning or not.I think it is I put my ear up to its blowing.If the drive is on its way out would that be the cause of all the problems i am having with the PC?

That is a 24 to 20 pin adapter on that PSU. PSU has been changed out before.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

I think harvesting the zalman and buttoning up my current 775 machine was a better choice. I really like how this system looks inside. I think I've shown this here before but it's pretty much all finished now.

Planning on using that QX6700 (or maybe my X6800?) And making an earlier 775 computer since the one above is very late. Honestly I think I'd prefer to use one of my 680i striker extremes over the EVGA board though, for purely aesthetic reasons.

 

[MaxiPro800]

1156 machine. Still gotta figure out why does the picture go blank over HDMI but not over DVI

 

[Greenslade]

Thats a darn good question. And why a lot of oem stuff hits the trash.

I get your point there , but the Motherboard is not OEM.

 

[stinger608]

but the Motherboard is not OEM.

Then it should take a standard 20 pin plug from the power supply.

 

[Robert B]

NEW HW FOUND!!! Run the auto installer?! Probably not! All of these need proper care and my undivided attention!

1. Mystery Z80 Computer. Some type of a homebrew computer.It need further investigation.
2. ASUS A8N32-SLI + A64 4200+ S939 + 2x1GB DDR400 Team Group XTreem
3. The BOX from a DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra-D - If I have the boxed it means that in my future it is written that I will also find the motherboard. Right?
4. ACER AL532 1024x768 LCD monitor for testing purposes.
5. AMD 486 DX4-100
6. Intel I7-870
7. Intel SL4CE 800MHz/100
8. nVIDIA 6800GT PCI-E with Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5
9. ATI Radeon 5850 1GB
10. PowerColor Radeon 7000 Video Card RV6P-NB3 64MB PCI
11. Gigabyte GX-X58A-UD3R + I7 960
12. MSI Radeon HD 2600 XT 512 MB GDDR3 - silent
13. ASUS P5B Deluxe + E6700
14. Socket 3 system + VLB + Extension cards
15. CLUB3D RADEON 9600 256MB GDDR CGA-E966TVD - 9600XT 256MB AGP
16. ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe
17. Medion MEDION 2001 (ASUS CUV4X-CM OEM) + P3 1GHz + GF4 4200 Ti 64MB
18. ASUS CUSL2 - it need no introduction.
19. SY015 Intel Pentium 150 MHz
20. 2x Athlon 64 for S754
21. Gigabyte Ga-7VAXP Ultra K7 triton 400
22. Matrox MGA G200
23. PowerColor Radeon 9600SE Video Card R96LE-C3S AGP 128MB
24. PNY Tech PNY nVidia Quadro FX 500 128MB QFFX500A8E12X-G
25. Gigabyte GA-GF1280 Geforce 2MX 32MB AGP
26. Amstrad PCD1512 DD without the monitor which also houses the PSU and without the peripherals. A lucky find nethertheless
27. Lexikon HD352 hardcard MFM hdd 20MB - functional belive it or not!
28. Gigabyte GA965P-DS3
29. Misc stuff.

When it rains (with HW) it pours!

 

[Audioave10]

NEW HW FOUND!!! Run the auto installer?! Probably not! All of these need proper care and my undivided attention!

1. Mystery Z80 Computer. Some type of a homebrew computer.It need further investigation.
2. ASUS A8N32-SLI + A64 4200+ S939 + 2x1GB DDR400 Team Group XTreem
3. The BOX from a DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra-D - If I have the boxed it means that in my future it is written that I will also find the motherboard. Right?
4. ACER AL532 1024x768 LCD monitor for testing purposes.
5. AMD 486 DX4-100
6. Intel I7-870
7. Intel SL4CE 800MHz/100
8. nVIDIA 6800GT PCI-E with Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5
9. ATI Radeon 5850 1GB
10. PowerColor Radeon 7000 Video Card RV6P-NB3 64MB PCI
11. Gigabyte GX-X58A-UD3R + I7 960
12. MSI Radeon HD 2600 XT 512 MB GDDR3 - silent
13. ASUS P5B Deluxe + E6700
14. Socket 3 system + VLB + Extension cards
15. CLUB3D RADEON 9600 256MB GDDR CGA-E966TVD - 9600XT 256MB AGP
16. ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe
17. Medion MEDION 2001 (ASUS CUV4X-CM OEM) + P3 1GHz + GF4 4200 Ti 64MB
18. ASUS CUSL2 - it need no introduction.
19. SY015 Intel Pentium 150 MHz
20. 2x Athlon 64 for S754
21. Gigabyte Ga-7VAXP Ultra K7 triton 400
22. Matrox MGA G200
23. PowerColor Radeon 9600SE Video Card R96LE-C3S AGP 128MB
24. PNY Tech PNY nVidia Quadro FX 500 128MB QFFX500A8E12X-G
25. Gigabyte GA-GF1280 Geforce 2MX 32MB AGP
26. Amstrad PCD1512 DD without the monitor which also houses the PSU and without the peripherals. A lucky find nethertheless
27. Lexikon HD352 hardcard MFM hdd 20MB - functional belive it or not!
28. Gigabyte GA965P-DS3
29. Misc stuff.

When it rains (with HW) it pours!

Look at all those goodies! Some are quite Ancient and rare. Robert B lives a charmed life I think.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Finally managed to put this back. Beats my 1156 machine's HD7870 by quite a lot, at which point I wonder if it doesn't even get bottlenecked by the i7 860 my P55A-UD3 runs. I'll probably look which cards would fit the i7, but am pretty sure the GTX 670 is unfortunately too powerful for the certain i7 I use.

That, and the Radeon has far better audio output over HDMI/DVI-I than Geforce cards.

 

[Greenslade]

Is there a special way to get an os on a CF Card?on my retro pc it said there was only 29gb on it, when the card has 64gb i realise they never have the amount the card has.
But but just 29gb of 64gb that s madness.I have put the card in my win 10 PC and it said it was formated ex fat it now is NTFS .

 

[agent_x007]

Yes, You need CF to IDE adapter and create FAT32 partitions (don't go over 32GB limit per partition, you will avoid some headaches), and just FYI : not all CF cards are DOS bootable. After all that, OS should just install like on any other IDE hard disk.

 

[Greenslade]

Yes, You need CF to IDE adapter and create FAT32 partitions (don't go over 32GB limit per partition, you will avoid some headaches), and just FYI : not all CF cards are DOS bootable. After all that, OS should just install like on any other IDE hard disk.

Why not NTFS i am hoping to get XP on it.And do i need to use f disc ?You say that
but i have a number of IDE drives i can,t get anything on them.One said insert the disc but that was all ready in the cd drive,Another one of them said press any key to reboot.And the third IDE drive i had managed to install 2000 on it but it said there was an error.The one of two sata drives failed to work with the sata to ide adapter.
And the only one with an os on it is on the way out caution on its health that is sata to ide adapter.And want let me get to manage to delete the drive.So unless i can get an OS on there i am stuffed.

 

[agent_x007]

If you want to use it for XP, sure NTFS is fine (it won't be usable by default for Windows 9x or DOS, but that's fine in your case ?).
Also, you don't need SATA adapters for CompactFlash, they work natively with IDE (I guess you have that in your MB ?).

In general, CF isnt used as OS driver for XP because it's too slow vs. SSDs you can get on SATA.

 

[Greenslade]

If you want to use it for XP, sure NTFS is fine (it won't be usable by default for Windows 9x or DOS, but that's fine in your case ?).
Also, you don't need SATA adapters for CompactFlash, they work natively with IDE (I guess you have that in your MB ?).

In general, CF isnt used as OS driver for XP because it's too slow vs. SSDs you can get on SATA.

I could give that a try on ssd with the sata to ide adapter.Its not even working with the CF Card see card connected.Does anyone know how i can get rid of this message?I can,t get os s off the other drives the CF Card was connected red light on.Where do i put the jumper on the IDE drive for putting an os on is it master or slave?all though i have one drive on there and it keeps on saying there is no drive on the pc?it is connected as it should be i just don,t understand all this.The only other drive that works is the one with win 2000 and that fails. If anyone lived near me i would give this pile of junk to them. I just can,t do anything with it, the light on the cf card flickers and does not seem to connect. The IDE cabal is tight in there.

 

[agent_x007]

Your installation may be corrupted (bad source file), or your PC is unstable (memory/CPU), OR you are trying to install it on something that isn't supported natively (everything made after 2015 for XP) OR your SATA cable/adapter is busted OR your board doesn't like this adapter.

 

[Greenslade]

Your installation may be corrupted (bad source file), or your PC is unstable (memory/CPU), OR you are trying to install it on something that isn't supported natively (everything made after 2015 for XP) OR your SATA cable/adapter is busted OR your board doesn't like this adapter.

The Sata to IDE adapter is the only thing that works.Just on one of the drives.I could try it with an ssd and the adapter.

 

[Terronium-12]

Oh man, I'm going to love this thread

I have to dig out my other stuff but I still have this in the box (you don't want to see the box) in my room, so why not start with it:

G0 stepping and all. Best I managed with it back in the day was 3.87 on water. A lot of stuff I'm going to share in here.

 

[AlwaysHope]

Not necessarily hardware but need software apart from OS or its a useless machine right?
Scored this yesterday before being chucked in the bin from my workplace...

 

[hckngrtfakt]

Oh man, I'm going to love this thread

I have to dig out my other stuff but I still have this in the box (you don't want to see the box) in my room, so why not start with it:

G0 stepping and all. Best I managed with it back in the day was 3.87 on water. A lot of stuff I'm going to share in here.

I am actually using the younger version of this CPU on my daily

 

[lexluthermiester]

(don't go over 32GB limit per partition, you will avoid some headaches)

That depends on what OS you're going to use. DOS/Windows 95? Yeah, keep it under 32GB. Windows 98SE/Windows ME will work fine with FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB.

and just FYI : not all CF cards are DOS bootable.

I have never had that experience. As long as a partition is set active(boot flag set), it'll boot. Perhaps the partition wasn't set active?

Oh man, I'm going to love this thread

I have to dig out my other stuff but I still have this in the box (you don't want to see the box) in my room, so why not start with it:

G0 stepping and all. Best I managed with it back in the day was 3.87 on water. A lot of stuff I'm going to share in here.

Nice! That was a golden CPU. Much like the Celeron 300A, one could get generally a 50% OC or better out of them.

BTW, Welcome to TPU!

 

[Veseleil]

I would like to ask my fellow tech lovers to share their thoughts about this board (if there are any, thoughts):



I have it for years, got it from a friend, and he got it from his uncle. His uncle bought it some 20 years ago, and it came like this - giving no signs of life. Tested it many times with different core2 processors, but no luck. I'll probably take it to the electronic repair shop someday.
I would really love to see it come to life. Especially as I've kinda skipped the whole dual core, core 2 era... I was on p4 all that time, and later got a Phenom II X4 965 BE.
Sorry about bad photo quality, my phone camera glass cover broke a while ago, and the dust did its thing.

 

[MaxiPro800]

If I were you, I'd ditch the ECS for a Gigabyte or ASUS, should you want to go with a Core 2 Duo. I just wouldn't trust ECS with a 10ft pole to make a capable P35 mainboard.