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there's other people listing that same board for $100 or $50
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Rawrl posted:op have you tried vogons.org? it started out as the DOSbox dev forum, but there's an entire subforum for this kind of stuff. lots of useful information. hmmm *takes notes*
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Silver Alicorn posted:there's other people listing that same board for $100 or $50 See, that still seems absurd to me; I guess I have unrealistic expectations. It really just bugs me that between this, cars, and retrogaming most of my hobbies are getting Rule 36'ed. All the same, I probably shouldn't post when I'm tired. Sorry atomicthumbs, that was uncalled for.
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Rawrl posted:I shouldn't post
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counterpoint: 
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seconding the zip drive requirement how else are you going to accomplish your weekly exchange of napster-downloaded-via-dial-up mp3s
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Aug 4, 2016 20:39
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maybe. I already have to track down an ultra wide scsi hard drive I think
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i started college in 2000, which was right at the point where floppies weren't quite big enough to hold much but anything bigger was kind of expensive and/or had limited support, so we were issued zip discs in various classes to use in the lab computers and mostly transferred other poo poo by emailing ourselves. (i got a cdrw a year or two later)
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Aug 4, 2016 20:52
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:how many compilations an hour could those chips do with a modern kernel? none
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Rawrl posted:I resent the upward trend in prices because - from my experience - they aren't worth remotely that much. See, here's the thing: apparently they are
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"the thing i could once buy for cheap when it was common and more recently obsolete is more expensive now, ten years later! this is bullshit!"
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man complains BMW E30s are expensive, shouldn't be because they are an old compact car and not worth that much
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i gashed my hand open on a solder joint so by god i am going to squeeze blood from this VLB stone if it's the last thing I do
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atomicthumbs posted:man complains BMW E30s are expensive, shouldn't be because they are an old compact car and not worth that much old computer parts and e30s should definitely be worth more, because then i will finally be able to retire
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Aug 4, 2016 23:38
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Aug 5, 2016 00:55
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there's a weird 6 pin socket next to the regular atx power socket. any idea what that is?
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Aug 5, 2016 00:58
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well bad news: I inspected the motherboard and found a transistor that's bent over and very loose. I could probably repair but I'm gonna try to exchange first
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Aug 5, 2016 03:38
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this motherboard is amazing though. beautiful. pristine
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Aug 5, 2016 03:42
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 the foam was pre-yellowed
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Aug 5, 2016 03:46
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probably an extra +12v rail on that 6 pin
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Aug 5, 2016 03:50
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hey OP if you really want this to be a y2k computer it's gotta be in this case 
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Aug 5, 2016 03:59
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probably wouldn't fit in that case. it originally came in one like this
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Jonny 290 posted:probably an extra +12v rail on that 6 pin yeah, i can't tell how it's keyed, but i wonder if a pci-e would work. apparently six-pin AUX power connectors were a thing back then on high-powered motherboards, but they don't look like that at all. probably some proprietary compaq thing you'll need to find pinout documentation for and lol good luck with that
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plextor crew 
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Endless Mike posted:yeah, i can't tell how it's keyed, but i wonder if a pci-e would work. yea I think I'm gonna just get the official PSU since the 24pin connector apparently is proprietary too
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Aug 5, 2016 05:19
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having second thoughts about this motherboard!
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Aug 5, 2016 05:28
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post the transistor
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Silver Alicorn posted:yea I think I'm gonna just get the official PSU since the 24pin connector apparently is proprietary too haha owned. that was one of dell's favorite tricks, using the ATX power connector but with a proprietary pinout Silver Alicorn posted:probably wouldn't fit in that case. it originally came in one like this oooh try to get a plextor CD burner, every nerd lusted after those back then. second choice would be a yamaha
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SO DEMANDING posted:haha owned. that was one of dell's favorite tricks, using the ATX power connector but with a proprietary pinout i know this pain
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Aug 5, 2016 12:52
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I think I had a Yamaha burner
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atomicthumbs posted:post the transistor ok. you can kinda see where the leads cracked. please excuse my knee, shag carpet. 
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gotta love the time when everyone had a separate cd writer and dvd drive. my first dvd drive, some 4x speed thing i think came with baldurs gate on just ONE disc! you could even do a small install and play it from the disc compaq pcs from that time were insane i think some were so proprietary they had all their pci ports on a custom riser card lol also they never gave you the pinouts of the hdd led n stuff, instead the case the mb was supposed to come with had just one plug for all of those that fit over the dangly pins
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Silver Alicorn posted:ok. you can kinda see where the leads cracked. please excuse my knee, shag carpet.
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Aix posted:gotta love the time when everyone had a separate cd writer and dvd drive. my first dvd drive, some 4x speed thing i think came with baldurs gate on just ONE disc! you could even do a small install and play it from the disc I think the WoW Vanilla Collector's Edition came with a DVD (as opposed to 5 CDs) and that was a selling point. Mac games always used to come on DVD because you knew that a model that could run the game would have a reader.  VVV haha, case in point. Mac UT2K4 was 1DVD and had a 200KB noCD toast image to run 
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Aix posted:gotta love the time when everyone had a separate cd writer and dvd drive. my first dvd drive, some 4x speed thing i think came with baldurs gate on just ONE disc! you could even do a small install and play it from the disc it took the games industry for-loving-ever to fully switch to DVDs, and early on they did stupid horseshit like only putting a game on DVD in some limited collectors crap. UT2K4 did this, I had to scrounge eBay for an overpriced copy because it was sold out everywhere else. all to avoid having to deal with 4-5 CDs or whatever, lol. still have the dumb metal box.
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insert the CINEMATICS DISC to continue
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SO DEMANDING posted:it took the games industry for-loving-ever to fully switch to DVDs, and early on they did stupid horseshit like only putting a game on DVD in some limited collectors crap. UT2K4 did this, I had to scrounge eBay for an overpriced copy because it was sold out everywhere else. all to avoid having to deal with 4-5 CDs or whatever, lol. still have the dumb metal box. god thye were still doing this crap even when dvd drives were uper ubiquitous. like, sorry you can't afford $20 for an oem drive maybe buy one less game?
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My old 850 chipset board had a weird 6-pin auxiliary input as well, and that was a straight up intel board. IIRC power supplies from that era typically had a connector. Oddly enough it doesn't match the connector in your photo, maybe there were competing standards? You can see it just below the ATX power in this pic:  e: This page has info on the single-row connector in my pic, but I can't find anything about the 2-row thing http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/connectors.html#aux burning swine fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Aug 5, 2016 |
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I think it's this compaq proprietary connector (bottom left)
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yeah I'm contemplating switching over to an i820 board with only one cpu slot. would allow me to use a modern/non janky psu anyway
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