Mystery PC Archeology
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2025
- Due to some weird timing, I actually had picked this up between the Beige lot video and the RLL drive testing video, and since the Beige video was already done and uploaded, I decided to make this a seperate video (also since I've never done a video like this and it seeemd fun!
Let's find out what all is in this dirty dusty unit
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It's entirely possible that the detached cards sitting inside the case had nothing to do with the machine. Back when recycling PCs was not a big a thing as it is now, there were a couple of times when I *did* have a chance to do so (e.g. the town had an electronics recycling day) and I'd take *all* the bits and bobs I could find and shove them into the PC case to bring down for recycling. Could very well be what happened here.
That's kinda what I was thinking towards the end. It was the first time I had seen cards thrown in like that, which I why I assumed they went with the machine in some way, might have been bit different thought process had there been an agp card or something.
But yea just need to power test the board and the parts soon and see what's repairable and usable
(EDIT: this was mentioned in the end of the video, so, spoiler, I guess). ))
This sound card is very interesting, as it features what appears to be Chinese fake/bootlegged OPL-2 chips. I am talking about ICs that are labelled 74LS621 and 74LS74 without any date codes and manufacturer information. They are, in fact, clones of YM3812 and YM3014, but in different IC packages with bigger pin count. I've seen them before, but never had a chance to hear how they sound in comparison to the real ones (I am expecting them to be exact copies with no difference at all). This is a bootleg clone of the original Sound Blaster 2.0.
So it is a sb pro 2.0 clone? Or just a sb 2.0?
Idk finding info is a bit of a challenge besides finding each chip is a clone chip of something.
Either way I hope it works, might throw this in the 5170 or something to test
@@definitelycasualpcs8789If the other sources are claiming SB PRO compatibility, it might be true. I've identified it by eye, and can be wrong about my assumptions.
Well it was on 1 forum that even mentioned the sb pro thing...
For all I know it's not. I'm still sitting thru old forums for info lol
My first pc was in a case like that. I can't remember if it was a clone or IBM. We upgraded the computer piece by piece. I believe we only got a new case when the power supply wouldn't plug into the new motherboard we were buying... which also required a new video card etc. This looks like it make have had a similar history to my first PC.
Which makes sense, if newer parts fit...why keep buying new cases? At/atx was one of the best part of standardization in PCs.
I mean yea in this case super socket 7 would've been the highest it could go but I've seen some people still using old (yet high end) cooler masters or lian lis from like 2004 with modern parts.
I know we only upgraded our soundcard to an sb16 because it came with a cd rom and a huge bundle of games. (I broke my arm and we got some money for that, so we splashed out a bit on that one)
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Are you going to test the hardware & see what is on the hard drives?
I am actually! Lol I'm trying to find my ide to usb adapter. I'm worried about the pc ram slot since it looks broken, nervous about pins touching. But yea I'm super curious if anything works lol
The case screams 8088/286 era, at least on an esthetics level but with the CD drive installed I'm going to guess a 386....with lower odds being a 286 that was upgraded or a 486 board someone threw in an older style case.
oh wow, socket 7, not my first guess.......that case does not match the board on a visual level but I've seen weirder things.
Right?! I was more than a little bummed that it didn't have the original everex board.
Kinda odd someone went thru the work of board swapping and adding parts for that long but yea your right...weirder things lol
I would've loved for it to have been a 386...
I've found like 2 or 3 so far and all were corroded and fully dead from vartas.