Lockdown help find this gem in loft

[spiritedandy]

Well bored lockdown went a rooting in loft found blast from past . Trying to get things sorted to get it working . Lots of boxes to go through . Found a 36 gb wd raptor drive hope that works sata !!! And memory 3500 geil spelling sry . And graphic card i cant remember it at all . Its got a barton cpu 2500. But i just found a box with 10 or more in . Just cable monitor . I powered it up fans lights came on . Fingers crossed its all working

 

[don256us]

Nice.

 

[spiritedandy]

Waiting on converter to hdmi

 

[David]

Oh wow... memories. I loved the AXPs. Used to run a pair of them overclocked in a dual socket motherboard, a long long time ago ...

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

And, no bad caps that I can see, hooray! Asus of that era, used Chemi-con KZG series, which the ones manufactured close to that time, are known to bulge and leak in storage!

The Chemi-con KZG series caps on my 2004 Asus A7N8X-X were suddenly bulging and leaking when sitting in my room in the mid-2010s! Unfortunately, don't look like the KZG series will last as long as Rubycons usually do.

You lucked out, Rubies everywhere on your Abit NF7-S!

 

[spiritedandy]

Omg I never thought about caps going off lol I just had a good look and all looks OK. Still waiting on converter . So fingers crossed I'll be scratching my head at bios screen tomorrow

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Omg I never thought about caps going off lol I just had a good look and all looks OK. Still waiting on converter . So fingers crossed I'll be scratching my head at bios screen tomorrow

There are a common series from Chemi-con that are known to fail while sitting, usually visibly fail, too! Mine, did its version of Mount Vesuvius!

 

[ihrsetrdr]

Beautiful!

 

[don256us]

Oh man. I remember getting a shim for the CPU. This setup would have been the "BOSS". ATA 133 HDD from Maxtor. 4x AGP. Yeah. Great stuff. I had to recap a number of boards back in the day but this one does look to be fine.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Oh wow... memories. I loved the AXPs. Used to run a pair of them overclocked in a dual socket motherboard, a long long time ago ...

Indeed.

 

[MaddMutt]

I gave up and donated my NF7-S2G to - OptyTrooper (IIRC the Member has since left) with several CPU's & Memory -> The board died from years of storage .. My fondness memory was playing with a AMD Duron 1.4GHz (Applebread Core) that I got to OC to ~ 1.7GHz...

 

[Zerileous]

I've still got a NF7-S and Barton 2500+ sitting in the garage. One of these day's I'll duster er off and see what she can do.

 

[spiritedandy]

Look at you all reminiscing lol . Converter came yay all plugged in . Powered her up keyboard lights are on .mobo lights ,card,memory all lights on mobo fans ......but monitor remains blank
Going to have a rummage see if i can find spare card



But no picture

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Indeed.

I so want it to work now sigh

 

[Aleslammer]

Might be better served looking for a monitor that has a VGA connector if that is all the card has. I keep a panel just in case with a VGA connector, converters can be hit or miss.

 

[spiritedandy]

Yeh thinking on them lines . But mate is bringing agp card over to try . So fingers crossed still .

 

[spiritedandy]

Well mates agp does not work .heatsink gets warm everything spinning lit up . So suppose next is a cheap vga monitor can get one for £20 suppose i cant leave this now . I so want it to work

 

[BugFreak]

That board is way to clean for one of those old NF7-S. It needs wires and pot volt mods running all over the place to look proper. I loved that board.


Could also get yourself a cheap old PCI graphics card to run on it.

 

[spiritedandy]

agree when I had this I was starting out . Hence so clean . I've ordered monitor 25 squid so fingers crossed again it boots . If not I will be at a loss . Will be next week now . Aghhhh I cant take it

 

[spiritedandy]

Could also get yourself a cheap old PCI graphics card to run on it.[/QUOTE]

Pci i cant remember pci running on this . Slots different mmmm

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Sorry i am double posting . Agghhhhh

 

[BugFreak]

Not PCI-E. PCI are the white slots below the AGP slot.