We have 5 vintage motherboards that have either been donated or are from E-Waste. Do they work? Let's go over each one and see how many we can get working! #vintage #motherboard #retropc #nostalgia #ewaste #intel #amd
Thanks for the feedback and for the sub!! I knew going into the video we would be going over each one in detail and the thumbnail has a good indication of what they are so I figure we were good to go haha. Again thanks for subbing and watching. More to come :)
@@TheRetroRecall You can get a single throw switch to make your PSU turn on circuit. Be cheaper than buying some pre-built one. You can also make it cool and mount the POWER ENGAGE button on something
commenting early while you're overclocking the P3 600Mhz PCU, one thing I always did was reduce the multiplier but up the FSB, for example, 4x 150Mhz is still 600Mhz for the CPU, but with a 50% faster FSB, however some CPUs have locked multiplier (or multiplier set by jumper) so that sometimes that's not an option or harder to do...
try and bridge the 2 pointing points of the chipset cooler on board number 4 with a wire even though one is missing. some of the mounts on those chipset coolers are part of a circut that should be closed to work properly
Great idea. I thought that and it still didn't work. I tested continuity and ground and nothing. There is definitely something funny with this board and probably the reason the heatsink was removed in the first place. I haven't given up yet - it's on my list of to do's (which is growing) haha. Thanks again!
Many times video issues on PCI cards come from boards that do not assign a IRQ for the PCI slot adjacent to the AGP slot. Many boards do this so that they can incorporate six PCI instead of five. There are certain add in PCI adapters that do not require a IRQ address. Moving it to the second PCI slot should resolve the issue. This can also be caused by a hard jumpered preset IRQ on a device or a Plug N Play device that is plugged into a motherboard that is set to NON PNP OS. If you enter the BIOS menu and enter PNP OS instead of NON PNP OS it when you reset the system it will do a resource allocation instead of relying on you to preset the add in cards so that they do not conflict with the current hardware parameters.
For sure. I tried holding it more in the straight up position during one of the attempts and no luck. When I go to focus on this board a little more, I am going to be much more conscience of that. Thanks!
14:30 You can push the FSB as far as 133 MHz as long as you keep the PCI bus as low as original which is 33 MHz. I suspect when the settings chosen for 120 MHz paired with 40 Mhz PCI failed because of the latter.
Thanks! I know you can choose manual VS the auto configuration on this board for tweaking. I suspect getting to. 700mhz wouldn't be too much of an issue. I've read online some have gotten over 800, although I am not sure how adventurous I want to be haha! Thanks for watching!
@@TheRetroRecall I remembered during the days that I had an 450 MHz Pentium III overclocked to 600 MHz with a PC 100 SDRAM just running the FSB to 133MHz. Everything ran just fine as long as the case doesn't get too toasty.
Why always talking in overclocking the CPU? Why not go in the downclock way in order to do a very flexible DOS machine? In now days, if we need a faster system move from slot 1 to skt370 for example
I guess I could, however generally at that time people OCd their systems and tried to get the most out if them. For any apps / games requiring slow CPUs today...I have many of those systems available to use.
@@TheRetroRecall I see your point. I was thinking like Phil Computer Lab, having a very flexible system that I could run games with speeds from 386 until the latest Windows XP or Windows 98. An AIO system
Nice score on that P3 1ghz! Be careful with mounting coolers on those, notorious for chipping or cracking the corners of them. Some even had little pads in the corners to help mitigate that. Athlon CPUs did that too.
Haha, sounds like the perfect vintage build. I have a spare Voodoo2 Card... I should put that to use. My Voodoo3 PCI is in my P200... however I may be wasting its abilities being throttled by the CPU...
The socket 939 board... from memory nVidia chipsets were kinda HOT, so be careful at heatsink and if it's hot maybe consider replacing the thermal paste. I don't think this chipset has that bad solder problem that caused lots of nvidia chipsets for Intel motherboards to break but double check - I had an Intel D805 with an Asus board that nVidia chipset (P5ND2-SLI-Deluxe) and that red chipset was very hot, was hovering at around 70-80c The super socket 7 board is indeed nice. Shame it didn't have some kind of onboard sound, but with the ISA slots it's a good opportunity to use an ISA soundcard. I would suggest running Windows 2000 on it, instead of Windows Me or 98 SE... with some library updates, you can still run modern browsers like Firefox or PaleMoon.
This is awesome, thanks for the advice and info. I've been itching to do a 2000 build, I think that may just be a great candidate. Suggestion on sound card?? :)
PCI freq and the video card could also be a reason it didn't post at 120 FSB. It's good to experiment with other options with more tame PCI speeds if even above 120 FSB. 133 FSB has multiple options for the PCI freq, so maybe it will post with that. Or maybe a different video card even. The P3B ASUS board.
Awesome. That's why I love them so much - stability and reliability. I also loved the AOpen boards as well, however they didn't top the Asus line! Thanks for watching!
Nice video, i think because i see that all that motherboard have USB slot, you can easily build a freedos USB drive with Rufus, get in some software some driver like unisound or even SB emu to test the onboard audio, i have done It for my system and It work fine on Pentium D m/b on Pentium 4 or core2duo and on i5 and i7 from the third to the fourth generation tested. With that you can test that board a lot Better if they are able to start from USB.
You can only push PCI cards to 37.5 MHz before they become unstable. Given the PIII-600 is a Katmai, it might not overclock as well as the Coppermine parts. I just recently acquired a PIII-550 Katmai, which I will be testing once I've cleaned it up.
I'm glad you enjoyed, and I think you mean the 4th MB. I'm sure we are fine as it was very short times and I stopped to prevent damage. It may also be a sign that there was an issue to begin with which is why the heatsink is off of it to begin with? Only time will tell!
Hi, not sure what could be happening. RU-vid maybe? I know there is an E-waste Special that had issues with rendering and was uploaded that couldn't be corrected. All other videos have streamed well :)
Hi, nice boards! I have the 2 Asus P3's that you tested too. Slot 1 with Win98 and 370 with P3 1Ghz and Win2k. Both with Dimm ECC memory. I recommend updating the BIOS afterwards.
Wow that ECS Athlon 64 combo was the first PC I built with all the bargain bin items at PC World. The motherboard was barebones (but is still going strong), the CPU was a good workhorse, but unfortunately I paired it with the worst GPU ever (which I think was similar to the one you tested it with) and it struggled to run Windows desktop. It was so bad I 'upgraded' to a NVIDIA 210 and it seemed like a massive boost!
Thanks for sharing... this is exactly why I do this! I think getting 4 out of 5 boards is a good start to some future builds. Hope you are subscribed as there is more coming soon! :) thanks for watching!
