Computers General

[VonDaab]

Nifty, have you got any plans for it?

If the CPU is still good, I've got a cooler ordered for it. If not good, I've seen Pentiums and Celerons for same socket for cheap here.

I guess end goal is a XP gaming machine, as the Matrox gpu can do basic 3D games, but should be good for stuff like Aoe2 and HoMM3. NOLF would be nice to run too. Radeon 9600 wouldnt be an excessive investment either, and thats a card that can already run HL2.

Might have to get an IDE to Sata adapter, as I dont expect its HDD being in that fresh shape. It does have a burning CDRom drive though, which is neat.

Its MB can handle 1Gb ram per slot (has 3 slots), so might put a decent amount of it, even if its slow as molasses PC133. At least that ram is cheap. Seen 256mb sticks go for less than 10bucks.

Though a fully kitted out Saseko with 3Gb ram would be funny.

[VonDaab]

Well, took the risk of powering it on without the cooler.
No picture and a very long beep on boot.
Checking ram, noticed oxidation on the pins and slot. Not a huge amount, but looks like the system needs a full tear-down and de-oxit after all. Otherwise a very clean system.

the AGP slot has also something that looks like oxidation.

PSU fan and HDD do spin up. But might need to take out the PSU and test it's voltages.

Also realised the chipset does only support 512mb Ram sticks at max, so in total can only get 1.5gb of ram on it, if all slots are functional.