Topcat
The Boss Stooge
Last Activity: Yesterday, 11:33 PM
Joined: 10-06-2003
Location: Salem, MO
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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.... -
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.
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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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Good drop off today!!
Two complete Nintendo systems; a NES classic and a Super NES. Yes, the mario bros 3 game is unopened.
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A Cobra 86XLR Base station with classic D104 Mic
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RDRAM performed very well at the time versus PC100/133 and early DDR1 in the 400/533fsb P4 period....just a short-lived era; as Intel hosed RAMBUS over (or visa versa) with the very over-priced memory. RDRAM era hardware gets more rare every day. Love it or hate it, it has a place in the PC retro kingdom.Leave a comment:
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Today's megascore is a Supermicro C7X99-OCE-F. Bought from one of the gazillion R2 resellers on ebay as "non functional, won't boot" for $25 shipped, in original box with accessories. Ok, that's worth the gamble, these are ~$200 boards working.
Arrived today, and of course the first thing is to check the 'usual suspects; such as damaged pins in the sockets, and other physical damage to the board, RAM slots, etc....none found. Next, in the oven with a CPU & RAM...and no post... Looking at status codes and current draws, it would roll through until '9C'....I was never...Leave a comment:
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Nice. Someone dropped off a Dimension 8250 system a while back. Supports Northwoods (533FSB max) and RDRAM. I haven't done anything with it yet....but I didn't send it to the R2 scrappers either....
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Ok, thanks for the info. I don't plan on any overclocking....this one is more of a resto with a Xeon CPU mod; I won't overclock it....Leave a comment:
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FSB holes>? What's that?
I found a pair of GTX 285's for peanuts....so I guess that cat is out of the bag!!
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Next build I'm kind of excited about. It was a drop off for recycling. Dell XPS 630i. These are slightly on the rare side....but this one was a little more unusual; as it's the red-faced one and also the liquid cooled version as well....I didn't even know the liquid cooler was an option with them. The GPU was missing and the PSU has bad caps....so it didn't work. Not sure what GPU it had....there were a quite a few GPU options with these, the best one being a GTX285; which probably won't be hard to find.
Testing the motherboard in the oven:
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The final results of the above Coolermaster setup....
I won't go into all the gore....but here's the power distribution & switching controller for the lighting that allows the front panel on/off switch to be used. The wiring & connectors were harvested from junk TV's.
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Enclosed in a black box under the drive trays. The shell was an old power brick that I stripped out and...Leave a comment:
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