Kurgens Sunday Scrap Heap Challenge

Kurgen · 17 May 2015 at 15:43

Was sorting some crap out this morning, and decided to see if i could build a pc out of some old scraps.. and i mean OLD!!! this pc wont have any use but i will leave it assembed in the cupboard just incase... of umm well i dont know. :confused:

Case: a lovely tin foil case, no idea who made it. a 5 year old in china i suspect. 5.25" floppy drive in there as well. Sorry for Pic quality my phone is rubbish at photos and the sun was shining through window.

PSU: and old Asus PSU... all molex :rolleyes:

Motherboard with P4 cpu and 512mb ram AGP card, Nvidia 5200 i think

a collection of drives.. IDE DVD, IDE CD, IDE ZIP, SATA 80gb HDD

pull of heat sink ewwww

clean of cpu reveal 3ghz P4

time to cram these bits into the case first mobo, one screw left out, it wasnt alligned.. thats cheapy cases for u

Power connected and drives inserted

data cables attached ... no room for cable management here :mad:

found a fan controller so added an 80mm to the back.. and on on the side panel

Test Boot

assembled PC... umm ok thats not pretty at all.. its def going in the cupbaord.

Testing the late 80's early 90's floppy drive

locked and loaded

DIR A: <enter> (oh sweet memories)

hmm dunno what those files are, never mind it works, thanks for looking :cool:

i did try windows 10 preview, but it needed 1gb ram so had to use xp

Bensons · 18 May 2015 at 11:02

Looks like you had fun. It should come in useful once the apocalypse comes

ED209 · 18 May 2015 at 11:33

lol, they where the days! making sure the IDE cable was connected up the right way and in order.

brings back some old memories, I had the same CPU overclocked to 4ghz with some huge cooler on it.

Cosimo · 18 May 2015 at 11:45

Such fond memories of floppies and those horrible IDE cables.

NMBlack · 18 May 2015 at 15:41

I shuddered when I saw the cable management. What are the temps like?

Kurgen · 18 May 2015 at 16:15

i think it was about 55, but then its not realy going to be used.. i used the floppy drive in another system about a year ago move some autocad drawings over , but the rest of it to be honest is scrap.. but i hate throwing pc bits away..

i have a 386 somewhere

Cosimo · 18 May 2015 at 17:21

NMBlack said:
I shuddered when I saw the cable management.

It's very 90s!

deano-5 · 18 May 2015 at 19:05

Cosimo said:
Such fond memories of floppies...

colinmcr · 19 May 2015 at 06:40

You built a time machine right ?

Kurgen · 19 May 2015 at 13:29

colinmcr said:
You built a time machine right ?

Almost..

I will be digging the 386 out at some point though, its a 386 Compaq Desk Pro with 5.25 add 3.5 floppy, i think it has a 40mb HDD, and it has a VGA Tubey Screen. but what i really need is a Full set of 1.2mb DR-DOS 6 disk images to get it working properly. as it boots off the 5.25"

PhillyDee · 19 May 2015 at 13:34

I still have my legacy parallel zip100 drive and 6 discs . . . . I do not even think the software drivers exist any more for it!

Don't throw out P4's with legacy ports, they are very handy for running CNC machines and CNC routers from.

Kurgen · 19 May 2015 at 21:47

ok i wont i will keep it

the ZIP Drive works.. if you need anything transferred, i thinkg its a 250mb version as well

*edit my Zip drive is an IDE one so no drivers needed just works like external drive plugnplay