What retro things have you done today?

almoststew1990 · 18 Mar 2023 at 20:29

Bit of a busta really. The P2B does not power on at all other than the power supply spinning up. Ive changed the CMOS battery and swapped out different RAM and a different CPU and checked the jumpers.

The Mercury Socket A board is similar. Tried a different power supply too! I straighted out the CPU pins and it took a bit of wiggling to get the CPU in so it could be an unhappy CPU/seating but not sure I want to spent more money on a new CPU. it's an Athlon xp 2400.

The AM2 board works fine with it's Athlon but I can't test the Socket 754 MSI Neo board as somehow I don't have a 754 CPU anymore.

The vibra works fine though woo. after messing around with crap PCI sound cards this actually sounds good! I'm cheering myself up with some Woodtick music

LewisRaz · 18 Mar 2023 at 22:35

Little ASMR dell startup sounds: https://youtube.com/shorts/SgWI_Yjew0U?feature=share

almoststew1990 · 19 Mar 2023 at 13:04

Plot twist. I found a turian CPU that is for 754 so it turns out I can test out that board. I can't get my heatsink to make good contact with the CPU so it'll be resting on the CPU, and it might need a BIOS update so if it doesn't post it's hardly conclusive, but I'll give it a go once I've finished removing coving.

LewisRaz · 19 Mar 2023 at 13:58

LewisRaz said:
£20 loot crate!

Most of the loose GPUs are bent to pieces and have surface mounts knocked off.. But not all of them, and some were boxed
Also the PSUs are FSP oem units with 27a 5v rails and weigh a lot! Am I right in thinking FSP were a good oem?

The highlights of the haul (Not tested the PSUs yet)

STB Systems RIVA 128 4mb. AGP
Sapphire Radeon 7000 32mb PCI
Sapphire Radeon 9250 64mb PCI
All now tested and working!

almoststew1990 · 19 Mar 2023 at 17:07

Nice couple of cards there. I should test out the PCI 7000 I got in my crap bundle. Are you going to sell or keep for their usefulness?

almoststew1990 · 19 Mar 2023 at 17:08

Sad times the 754 board does not boot with the turian chip. the fan spins up and the power button functions so I'll probably splash out £7 for a sempron or something.

LewisRaz · 19 Mar 2023 at 17:46

almoststew1990 said:
Nice couple of cards there. I should test out the PCI 7000 I got in my **** bundle. Are you going to sell or keep for their usefulness?

I am on the fence about it. I want a couple of upgrades to my YT set up and selling these could benefit that. Buuuuut they would be very handy to have around! With the exception of the RIVA 128.
If a few of those PSUs work I am really in business of being able to set up multiple systems. Right now I have 2 PSUs and 8 cases for potential builds. Probably 6 or 7 motherboards too.

cheesyboy · 19 Mar 2023 at 18:19

Picked up some of my old Gameboy stuff from my parents house. There's a GB in its box: the rest is just the boxes to games I'd already retrieved. That Batman one is worth a fortune!

KraniX · 20 Mar 2023 at 18:02

Love the box design of the Game Boy.

lakitu · 20 Mar 2023 at 19:24

cheesyboy said:
Picked up some of my old Gameboy stuff from my parents house. There's a GB in its box: the rest is just the boxes to games I'd already retrieved. That Batman one is worth a fortune!

Lovely and in amazing condition too

Cyber-Mav · 21 Mar 2023 at 22:44

found some old power supplies lying in the shed.
the enermax one is weird, its got silly 46a on 5v rail and only 24a on the 12v rail. useless in this day and age lol.

JoeBoi · 21 Mar 2023 at 22:49

I think those hyper PSUs had a lot of issues iirc.

Cyber-Mav · 21 Mar 2023 at 22:55

JoeBoi said:
I think those hyper PSUs had a lot of issues iirc.

yep, they got hyped up a lot at the time before reviews were actually using sophisticated load testing and oscilloscope machines.

Cyber-Mav · 21 Mar 2023 at 22:58

also rummaging through my old pc pics, iv come across the hp mini pc, i knew i had one but cant remember where i put it. the shed comes to mind but its a right mess there cant find the simplest of things since everything gets lobbed on top of everything else:

im sure this was a pentium 3 800 or 1ghz and i had upgraded ram to maybe 128mb or possibly 256mb. maybe one day it will turn up.

cee-S-dee · 22 Mar 2023 at 19:08

Added a little cosmetic touch to the main retro rig today. I'd been after a CD-ROM bezel for a while for my Lian Li and came across one on ebay for a reasonable price so grabbed it. Think it finishes off the exterior nicely. I ain't really got anything to add to this PC now. Its pretty much perfect for my retro gaming.

LewisRaz · 22 Mar 2023 at 19:44

Cyber-Mav said:
also rummaging through my old pc pics, iv come across the hp mini pc, i knew i had one but cant remember where i put it. the shed comes to mind but its a right mess there cant find the simplest of things since everything gets lobbed on top of everything else:

im sure this was a pentium 3 800 or 1ghz and i had upgraded ram to maybe 128mb or possibly 256mb. maybe one day it will turn up.

There is a P4 one of those on ebay atm but no propriatary PSU. Looks like a 6pin pci power connector.

Cyber-Mav · 22 Mar 2023 at 21:21

the one i had im sure it was a p3 and used round barrel type of connector i think. need to find it one day

Duke · 23 Mar 2023 at 08:27

JoeBoi said:
I think those hyper PSUs had a lot of issues iirc.

Yeah they're not great, although not as bad as those Qtec gold PSUs!

Raymond Lin · 23 Mar 2023 at 08:46

I had a Hyper PSU, really liked it! but not sure where it is now, might have chucked it in the bin....

Cyber-Mav · 23 Mar 2023 at 08:46

Duke said:
Yeah they're not great, although not as bad as those Qtec gold PSUs!

oh yep got scammed on a 650w one for 15 quid from local shop. was cheapo but again back then no reviews where people open up the psu and score it on its parts or do proper ripple testing with scopes etc.

oh the shame.. but never failed while in my possession and worked fine. was replaced once power psu reviews started coming out on johnnyguru website.