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Topcat · 10-28-2025, 06:12 PM

Just a followup. This monster has officially been decommissioned after a rock solid 10 years of service.

May be reborn at some point with some more modern internals. I nabbed a pair of these out of some cipafilter units (just rebadged 1U SM servers); which are DDR4 9th gen with NVMe slots for boot drives....and exponentially more efficient. They currently have I5-9500's in them. May rebuild this at some point using these....but it will be quite a while.

This little critter is what replaced this beast. SM A1SRI-2758F ITX. It uses ECC SoDIMM's;...

Topcat · 08-20-2025, 08:20 PM

This one is still going. It's the only Windows 7 system remaining in my fleet. It has a lot of legacy utilities on it that I still use....and legacy hardware support (floppy). Browser support is dried up and win7 is otherwise pretty useless....and to add more insult to injury this system has mechanical HDD's in it; granted they're 15K RPM in a raid10... The problem, I needed a system at the bench with modern browsing capabilities...but don't want to waste bench space with another PC. The solution was simple, shrank the 600GB partition by half and dual booted it with MInt 22. Problem solved and...

Topcat · 08-20-2025, 08:10 PM

Not bad. Scored a goodiebox with a Tyan Tiger133 (S1834D) in it. With a pair of upgradeware slotkets (supports Tualatins), it's running gloriously @ 1.4GHz x2 with a voodoo3500. The nicer slot era stuff has been growing in value the last few years....

Topcat · 06-20-2025, 01:39 PM

I've been looking at this case: https://www.ebay.com/itm/335465339861

...but the pricetag is a bit hard to swallow...not to mention 1U ITX PSU's that aren't junk are not easy to get.

Not sure of this theory will work....but using big bertha (this build), remove the casters, and put it in that massive beige rack I got from you a few years ago. Sitting it on one of the flat slide trays that are in it; in the lowest mount point of the case....it would extend far enough to be able to get the sides off if I needed to work inside it....otherwise, all drives are accessible from...

Topcat · 06-17-2025, 10:06 PM

Waking up this thread yet again... Yes, I know I am not on much anymore.....been crazy busy! I just added onto my building.

Anyway, this beast has come to a fork in the road....it's facing either retirement or upgrade. If being retired, I'll roll it into the lobby, it'll make a nice display piece. It has served faithfully and with 100% reliability for nearly 10 years since I reacquired it (creating this thread). It is a power hogging pig though....

If upgraded, here's where it gets wonky. The PSU's are 5V and 3.3V heavy, they're light on the 12V rails; 17A per module...

Topcat · 03-01-2025, 09:51 AM

No, it wasn't.....but they hung in long after Mozilla cut it off....

Topcat · 02-27-2025, 03:26 PM

Even Waterfox has ended support for Win7/8/8.1...

That said, it's hard to believe Win10 is 10 years old..........

Topcat · 02-22-2025, 10:17 AM

2-finger tap does the same thing as the missing mouse button....but 100% on the DELETE key......

Topcat · 01-03-2025, 01:18 PM

You can remove the copilot app and kill the trending searches....not sure where else it would lay....but what do I know.... This message brought to you from Mint 22.... 😌...

Topcat · 01-02-2025, 10:16 PM

10 and 11 are pretty much on par with being pukey.... GUI-wise, it boggles my mind why MS took away the ability to move the taskbar, I always like it vertically on the right side of the display....a feature that goes all the way back to windows 95.....why the fluck they thought it was a good idea to remove that ability I have no idea.

Good to know... The only win7 systems I have left are not connected to the outside world, so I really don't worry too much about their security issues. My HTPC's are Win7.....forgot about them in the original post. They run WMC...

Topcat · 01-02-2025, 12:19 PM

ORLY? Do tell...

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Topcat · 12-13-2024, 01:22 PM

It monitors PCIe power; IE a GPU's PCIe EXT power connector....

Topcat · 12-10-2024, 09:39 PM

2000 hour update....well close enough...

Nothing to really report; no problems or revisions.....but I did have a board in it creating one hell of a load!! X9DAI with a pair of E5-2667 V2's @ 3.3GHz 8C 16T 130W CPU's with 512GB RAM. Memtesting had it pulling nicely on the 12V rail.....

...and that's just memtest... It kept the room warm!!

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Topcat · 12-06-2024, 11:40 AM

I honestly don't remember what make they were, but they would have been PC2100, no doubt....

Topcat · 11-26-2024, 09:35 PM

Looks good. I still have a P3TDDE as well. It's a sdram board versus the DDR of the u-rn...both nearly impossible to find these days. Now to grab yourself a voodoo5 for yours. The perfect icing on the cake GPU for one of these....

Topcat · 11-26-2024, 06:35 PM

You need to set the FSB speed. It's default @ 66 (locked multiplier of 10.5), which is why you're only @ 700MHz. It sees both CPU's....good sign. You have to manually key it in, set it to 133, CPU's will show the correct speed then. If you're feeling frisky, you can try setting it higher....150 wasn't unheard of with these boards with good RAM & cooling....and of course chips that were friendly...but before venturing there, get it running correctly first.

I never was able to get 4GB to run right in this board either; it's not 'officially' supported by the chipset either even though...

Topcat · 11-14-2024, 05:53 PM

IMHO 90's era PC's were the real birth of PC gaming; and some really nifty hardware and games spawned from that time.....that's why they're in such demand....it's when PC's became 'fun'!! Stuff older than that, what do you really do with them; realistically?!? Sit and watch the cursor blink.... :yawn:...

Topcat · 11-09-2024, 11:25 AM

I'll see if I have any shots of the back, but I doubt I do.......

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