Topcat
The Boss Stooge
Last Activity: Today, 06:20 PM
Joined: 10-06-2003
Location: Salem, MO
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Nice score, especially to be in such good condition. -
Is there not some new-old-stock S370's out there? That would be a difficult soldering job as it is, especially having to reuse & clean the pins off a used socket....Leave a comment:
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That's a bummer. The other one wasn't missing the socket, just the tab that holds the heatsink on. I knew there was something with that board, but for the life of me couldn't remember what it was at the time I sent it. Its been stored in the closet for quite a few years....Leave a comment:
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More 'trash'....guy dismantled a mining setup and here's all the hardware...
This box contains a motherboard with a Ryzen 5 1600. 1x 1070ti, 2x RX580 armor, 4x RX 5700 XT GPU's, and 2x unknown power supplies.
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Box of cabling, 5x 120mm 120v AC fans....and...Leave a comment:
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Another little finishing touch.....labels for the controls & lights. This isn't realy how I wanted to do it; the original plan was vinyls with my wife's cricut.....but that wasn't working at all with letters so small....so I ended up using the label maker. Yes, after a couple years, I know what everything is for.....but it just looked incomplete without some kind of labeling....so here it is.
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Enjoy! Glad they finally got there!...Leave a comment:
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Very nice work. Great save!Leave a comment:
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Ask and ye shall receive. Had another red bezel XPS 630i dropped off last week (same customer that dropped off the other one). PSU bad; heard something *snap* in it when I plugged it in, no powerup and no STBY. I was not able to identify what snapped. Fuse good....all sink'd transistors good (not shorted at least, no smoke, no stink, nothing visibly burnt). Not going waste much more time on it, they can be had all day long for ~$30. This case can also take a standard ATX PSU....but anyway, retested the board with another PSU, and it works....but I'm not going to restore this one to original condition....Leave a comment:
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IIRC it uses both the USB and SATA. I know there's a SATA connected, don't remember if there's a USB connected but I think there is. I did not use the firewire interface....everything works. I think you can use one or the other between the USB and firewire....Leave a comment:
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You weren't joking about that chipset being a little on the fickle side.... I've read horror stories about running more than 4gb RAM in it.... I got a couple BSoD's with memory-related errors. The modules are good and nothing is overclocked. It wasn't a big deal, only happened a couple times after days of abuse....usually happens at boot.
Anyway..... Here's to a beautiful restoration of an XPS 630i. I absolutely love these cases, so pleasant to work with, they breathe very well, and they just have a great look.
This one was filthy....and taking these apart is a chore....Leave a comment:
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Long time no see! Glad you're still with us.
Other creative measures is activation scripts....which will actually permanently activate a device with MS with HWID. Even if you format it and reload it, it will activate on its own without having to execute the script again....Leave a comment:
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...but wouldn't this cause it to turn off or if stuck long enough cause a reboot? It doesn't do either of those. It'll stay on until turned off again.... I will try it though....but I don't think that's it. Spooky....Leave a comment:
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Sony XBR-55X930D Magically turns itself on
I got paid to take this. It had the typical bad STBY IC on the DPS board. Replace it and life was grand....or so I thought. I've never seen this one before; this TV will just magically turns itself on for no particular reason on earth. I did a hard reset on it (twice) clearing all data & settings out.....will still do this. Even removed the batteries from the remote....in the unlikely even there was a stuck key... Still doing it. I did not set up any of the 'smart' functions, I just fed it a source from a HTPC. It doesn't matter what input is selected.....still does it. No rhyme or reason... -
It does not work anymore; SSH2 marked the end of activating XP online. I think you can still by phone.....but don't hold me to that; they may have killed that by now as well. I have a corporate edition, no activation required.... The 'loader' will keep 7 eternally activated. 10 and up, I don't know....Leave a comment:
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I ebay'd one of those a year or so ago....boggled my mind why it went for so much...
I remember gazillions of ECS nForce boards back around 2005 with bad chipsets.... Had an arcade owner client that would send me boxes of these at a time with bad caps. The survival/success rate was under 50%....Leave a comment:
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...because M$ 'fingerprinted' (HWID) them when they were giving out free upgrades....so they will continue to activate....Leave a comment:
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M$ stopped giving out digital upgrade licenses for WIn7/8 quite some time ago. You either have to buy a key or use some more 'creative' methods.
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Ok, this one back in the news *again*!! ...but no system core swap this time. A few weeks ago, I was given an identical tower that had a factory Dell liquid cooling system in it. I never knew this was even an option for these, and thus it piqued my interest for this build....and I started looking for another of these coolers. Not easy to find with the Dell shroud that goes around it & proprietary mounts....but I finally found one complete for $30 shipped. There was a problem though, this system is now a LGA1366; not the LGA775 or AM2 as they were originally intended, so the cooling block brackets...
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CPU came the other day for this.....now we're cookin'!! I didn't even have to hack up hte BIOS to make this work....Dell quietly had the microcode in their BIOS for Xeons. Unusual for Dell...but perhaps done because it was their 'higher end' machine. Tested using air cooling.
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Now to test the liquid cooler.
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Got these the other day, 2x HPE Proliant Servers....a DL360 and a DL380 GEN9's.
The DL360 1U
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DL380 2U
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