$20 Box of PC Parts! Retro Gold or Rusted Junk?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2024
- I picked up a couple boxes of unknown random pc parts sight unseen!
I'll reveal what I got in this haul with you, what works and what doesn't!
Did I find retro Gold or did I just get a box of rusted junk?
Thanks for watching! - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Three processors, two soundcards, a motherboard and a video card for 20 bucks is an awesome deal. Nice video!
Yep it was totally worth it :) Who knows I might be able to use isopropyl alcohol on the other boards to clean the contact points. Thanks for watching :)
Nice little haul. I used to be obsessed with Tyan boards in the 90s. The Tyan Tiger, the Tahoe, Titan, etc were all so industrial strength. They were all formidable workstation boards. I mean look at it with all those PCI slots. You can tell it was in a workstation with lots of cards running on it. Who knows what could be wrong with the boards, but I'd definitely reset the bios on all of them. I've had to leave batteries out overnight to really reset some old boards. That Audigy is a definite win!
Hey! Yep a bunch of others mentioned trying to reflash the bios too. I can't remember if I ever was able to buy a tyan mono back in the day but 6 pci and 1 isa would have been pure gold for me!
@@RememberThisTech Buying a Tyan back then was definitely out of my budget zone lol. So many of these boards are on eBay now, and it's so tempting to buy them, but wtf am I gonna do with them! Lets try to think about how we could have filled 6 pci slots: VGA, Monster 3D Voodoo, Sound Blaster, dedicated TV tuner, Adaptec 2940uw SCSI, and NIC! Chuck the modem since DSL had its own converter coming in to the PC through the NIC 😁.
@itstheMR Scsi card, dual voodo 2 in sli, pci sb card, nic, modem.. all those items back then plus scsi hds omg 💵 💲 🤑 💸 💴
@@RememberThisTech With a few Cheetah 10k rpm drives for additional bank account rupturing. 🤑
You got good collection of old hardware. If possible, you can try to re-flash bios to those boards not working. CT4810 sound card is actually Sound Blaster 128 PCI, not Live! :)
Hey there! Ahh ooh 128 pci nice tyvm!! Reflashing those other boards' bios was what a few others suggested, too. I guess that's a good next step, tyvm!
I am pretty certain I had that same board back in the day. The AGP slot was not to industry standard and had to have its voltages adjusted in bios to work and not destroy some agp cards.
Hey there! I also heard similar stuff about it's agp port. Instabilities at 4x and you had to set it to 2x in the bios. Probably a reason only one mobo worked :( Oh well $20 bucks is $20 bucks!! Thanks for watching and commenting!
It is still a steal, one PIII board already goes for more and others might be repairable
Hey there! Yeah, same thing I thought! Plus 3 cpus and sound cards on top! Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it :)
I have had to fix several motherboards from this era of the Pentium III. I would recommend the heat test. use your finger and carefully check to see if any component on the motherboard is super hot. And this is the start of the era of the bad capacitor plague. If the caps around the cpu sockets are bad, then the system won't post either. I would recommend checking those two things. The fix for these boards may be a few dollars. Then pair them with a little CPU and you can sell them on or use them for a project. Motherboards from this time period don't have to worry about Varta batteries so most of the time they can be fixed if something goes wrong with them. That doesn't mean that something catastrophic isn't wrong with them, but there's always a chance. And I seem to recall that Tyan made pretty decent boards, but that may just be server boards. I don't know if it's the Tyan boards, but I seem to remember some of the dual SECC1/2 and PGA370 board were really finicky, but I thought that was just the lower quality ones from companies like Biostar.
Hey there!! Wow that's a good old school heat test. I never would have thought to try that tyvm! Since I don't have a thermo imager heh I might just work! I've got a few mobos I've goto attempt to recap gahh it's not my strongest skill :( perhaps that's why I've been holding off on doing it. I've got replacement caps and a newer decent soldering setup. No auto solder sucker though.. a manual one. Just need more time!! Thanks again for the tips and watching and commenting 🙂
@@RememberThisTech Best investment I ever made was a Hakko FR-301 desoldering gun. Yeah it can be a bit of a hassle to clean, and you will need to clean it regularly, but it works so great.
Hello Jason, in my opinion, that was a good deal, sometimes MB., wont work until all of the slots have been dusted and then cleaned with IPA., and the same treatment on the ram., and the sound and video cards often helps.
Hey Laurence, Good tip! I can spray em down well and let em dry for a couple of days and see if it helps :)
@@RememberThisTech Hello Jason, it's worth a try and some old MB., will not work if the Cmos battery is dead.
Sprayed a couple down real good. They are drying now. I put in new batteries when I test. Let's see if these boards come back alive!
@@RememberThisTech Hopefully that good clean will do the trick and I have just watched your video again and you mentioned changing the batteries, I missed that comment during the first viewing.
I have one HP 8000 USDT PC., and the socket for the cmos battery has broken off of the MB., before that happened the computer did work but it was unstable, so the socket must have been loose and therefor proper contact with the MB., was intermittent. It will be useful for spare parts.
Good tips Laurence ty! I soaked 2 of the mobos with isopropyl alcohol and dried for 2 days. New batteries, tried 3 diff video cards in diff slots, diff cpus nada nothing zilch :( Got the 2 other boards to try!!
I wonder is there a jumper or something to select which cpu to use - slot1 or the 370. I assume there are jumpers for setting your multiplier while the bus speed will be set automatic - probably. I'd imagine if the multiplier is wrong, it would just run at a slower speed as I'm pretty sure those p3's will use the highest multiplier. Maybe the 5th board had things set correctly and the others didn't?
Hey there! Yes I thought the same thing. So I bought a slot 1 500mhz cpu and set the jumpers for 500mhz and nothing not boot no dice :( Set them back and tried other setting ram video cards cpus nada.. Laurence suggested I hose the mobos down with isopropyl alcohol and see if that helps. That's my next plan. Or lol I could have gotten sold a dead slot one cpu from good old ebay resellers :(
@@RememberThisTech It could just be oxidation preventing contact to the cpu pins. I have seen some of the most stubborn oxidation - even when things look perfectly clean and shiny there can still be a layer of invisible shit making things nonconductive. I'd buy the highest percent IPA you can get and just liberally pour it into the socket. Then insert and reinsert a cpu. Then, i'd go at it hard with a toothbrush. Oxidation could also be why that slot is dead on the good board. Do the same to it. If that doesn't work, try some sand paper. IPA the hell out of the cpu pins too. Never know if they have spots of invisible oxidation.
Also, you got that celeron slot1. You could hold a heatsink to it long enough to try a boot or two. Just don't get all butterfingers and drop it.
@@ItIsNot1984 @ItIsNot1984 lol I took that celeron and zip tied a old small socket 370 heat sink on it and tried that but no dice! Was hela Frankenstein but funny. Today ima hose those boards down with ita... see how it goes. I've got a dead 800mhz 370 cpu might use it to do as you suggested. Thanks for your tips :)
@@RememberThisTech I hope you get 'em going. Boards like that ebay for up to like a hundred bucks if not more, and you got 5 of 'em lol. I love old boxes of junk like that. its how I got most of my more rare parts along with countless s3's.
@ItIsNot1984 Fingers crossed!! I've got too much old parts and not enough knowledge or time to get the all working again :(
Providia 9685 - no 3D, motion video acceleration (YUV to RGB). The smaller SB card is probably SBPCI, not Live - supports system RAM assisted hardware wavetable, with 2MB, 4MB (or 8MB eapci8m.ecw is available from Creative) soundfonts - looks like there was never any way to edit / mix your own like with SF2. It was essentially a rebadge of an Ensoniq AudioPCI
PS. dump the BIOS from the working board, check the BIOS on the others
Hey there. Ooh good info on those cards tyvm! Also good idea about pulling the bios off the good board. Maybe I can flash them and breathe life back into them ! :)