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SNES-powered
Join Date: Oct 2013
City & State: Bacau
My Country: Romania
Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz
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Main rig: Gigabyte B75M-D3H Core i5-3470 3.60GHz Gigabyte Geforce GTX650 1GB GDDR5 16GB DDR3-1600 Samsung SH-224AB DVD-RW FSP Bluestorm II 500W (recapped) 120GB ADATA + 2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB Delux MG760 case |
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The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
My Country: United States
Line Voltage: 240V @ 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
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Black Sheep
Join Date: Nov 2008
City & State: Madison, IN
My Country: USA
Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
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SNES-powered
Join Date: Oct 2013
City & State: Bacau
My Country: Romania
Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz
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(seriously, why do people love Chrome? I can understand Opera, but goodness gracious Chrome feels like a slowpoke on even a 3rd gen i5 w/ 16GB of DDR3.) |
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Computer Geek
Join Date: Jan 2015
City & State: Nowhereland, Texas
My Country: USA
Line Voltage: 120/2/[email protected]
I'm a: Hardcore Geek
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It feels like a slowpoke even on a 9th-gen i7.
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Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them. ![]() My computer doubles as a space heater. Windows 10? Only if you like forced, buggy updates and 24/7 telemetry. Samsung = Seagate = Seatrash = Trashgate Don't buy Seagate drives. Don't use Seagate drives. If you have any in service right now, make plans to replace them ASAP. SMR = Slow Magnetic Recording Avoid SMR, buy CMR drives instead. SMR is easily a 15+ year step BACKWARDS in HDD speed. Permanently Retired Systems: RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again. |
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Badcaps Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2012
City & State: Nuneaton Warwickshire
My Country: uk
I'm a: Hobbyist Tech
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![]() todays freebies a DigiHome 43268FHDT2 came with stand and remote, easy fault remove and clean lvds lead all seems fine.
i also picked up a panasonic TX-43GX550B 4k tv came with remote no stand, fault no backlight, turned out to be a easy fix the led strip connecting joints needed hard wiring set works fine now. |
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Comrade Glimmer
Join Date: Aug 2007
City & State: tehas
My Country: US
Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
Posts: 4,816
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I didn't say the motherboard is no longer good, it just has a low value, something my 5500 does not ![]()
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The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
My Country: United States
Line Voltage: 240V @ 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
Posts: 15,009
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Coming from someone who's always implying how much time I waste on old hardware builds; to even include some of the 3DFX ones, I'm surprised you did anything with yours.....you know, waste of time.... ![]() |
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Badcaps Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2012
City & State: Nuneaton Warwickshire
My Country: uk
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The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
My Country: United States
Line Voltage: 240V @ 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
Posts: 15,009
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![]() Today's freebies were a 43" Vizio 4k, no pic....probably needs strips...and a Dell Dimension 2400 P4 system, unknown working condition.
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The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
My Country: United States
Line Voltage: 240V @ 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
Posts: 15,009
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![]() Today's freebies from a local printing company include a bunch of laser printers; wide format color and some normal blacks. All are said to work.
Sorry Momaka, the 19" viewsonic screen is burned to shit, its scrap. ![]() Also in the mix is a HP Pro 6300 I3-3220 @ 3.3, complete & working. Now for an interesting relic I didn't know existed....yea, I knew of G5's, but never knew there was dual ones in PPC models....but here's a 2GHz version. Running OSX Server 10.4.11 It's definitely lacking in RAM with 1.5gb....it can take up to 16gb PC4200 DDR2 More specs.... Definitely needs a cleaning. It's in fabulous condition, just dirty. Might be a fun restoration; albeit not too terribly valuable.....but it does fit the traditional 'dual CPU' specialty of mine.... ![]() I'd run with 10.5 with tenfourfox and some other goodies, would be a fun toy. |
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#5232 |
Badcaps Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2009
City & State: Thessaloniki, Greece
My Country: Greece
Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz
I'm a: Knowledge Seeker
Posts: 2,137
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![]() Got this Braunig Mony made in Taiwan Turntable for free.
The rubber on the idler wheel has turned to plastic. Found local business that makes o rings and things like this and they made a replacement rubber o ring. The problem is that the original rubber was higher placed than the new one and now when I select 33 rpm it is touching the metal cylinder on the 45 rpm position and when I select 45 rpm it is touching it even lower resulting in ~65rpm (more details on pics attached) Do you think it is worth fixing or should I abandon project? |
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master hoarder
Join Date: May 2008
City & State: VA (NoVA)
My Country: U.S.A.
Line Voltage: 120 VAC, 60 Hz
I'm a: Hobbyist Tech
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![]() If it's really that bad, then it's finished its mission in life as a monitor. ![]() That said, consider pulling the boards out to keep as spares. The flyback and HOT (but especially the HOT) probably still have some value. Heck, if you get all of the electronics off the tube, and depending on what kind of tube it is (Trinitron/Diamondtron or Shadow Mask), you may be able to directly put this on another monitor that may otherwise have unrepairable board issues, but has a good tube (some Philips CRT monitors come to mind here.) Quote:
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Otherwise a 3rd or 4th gen will still run many of the competitive multiplayer titles at 1080p and 60 FPS with some GPU tweaks, given a good GPU, of course. So titles like CS:GO, Rocket League, Fortnite, Apex Legends, GTA:V online, Minecraft, and probably a good list of others. Quote:
If you can answer YES, then it's probably worth doing. Core 2 Duo/Quad stuff may be considered "worthless" by most folks today, but that doesn't mean that they are. If you just need a PC for very infrequent use to go online for things like paying bills, sending emails, typing word documents, and etc. (i.e. "light" usage), you don't really need a whole lot of processing power... and a C2D/Q will do just fine. Heck, high-end C2D and C2Q can still handle Youtube acceptably well. Quote:
Chrome always felt sluggish, unresponsive, and too dumbed-down for me. I can't say I am a huge fan of Firefox, especially Quantum in the last few years... but it's probably the least offensive "modern" browser currently. Sure Pale Moon feels more responsive and takes a lot less RAM and CPU resources... but it's quite far behind in the multi-core utilization department, making it perform rather poorly with video websites, unless you have a modern CPU with really fast single-threaded performance. |
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Solder Sloth
Join Date: Nov 2012
City & State: CO
My Country: USA
Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz
I'm a: Hobbyist Tech
Posts: 7,091
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![]() hmm...got a nearly unused 1lb spool (~450g) of 20 mil Sn63 from the refuse...
I think I have enough solder for probably two lifetimes now. |
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Badcaps Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2009
City & State: Thessaloniki, Greece
My Country: Greece
Line Voltage: 230VAC 50Hz
I'm a: Knowledge Seeker
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Posted pics of the turntable on a greek turntable fans group and a guy that owns the same model had the same problem as me with dried rubber o ring and offered to send me o ring he bought from ebay years ago that he believes it would perfectly fit. Yes, when I have something like that, old enough and with enough metal parts, and highly considered collector's item today, I have to try to fix it. It might not be Technics MK2 but it definitely doesn't look to be garbage too. And since the motor and the rest of thge mechanism appears to be OK it's a shame to go to landfill due to rubber gone bad. I will post again, after I meet with him and get the o ring |
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master hoarder
Join Date: May 2008
City & State: VA (NoVA)
My Country: U.S.A.
Line Voltage: 120 VAC, 60 Hz
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Yes, rubber parts should be considered consumable, more or less, especially past 15-20 years, though YMMV. It's really more of a shame that manufacturers don't usually regard these as consumable (on modern electronics anyways) and therefore don't include instructions or design the device to be easily taken apart in order to get to the part to change it. Case in point: water fill valves. I have very hard water where I live, and it's also highly Chlorinated in the winter and the spring seasons. This takes a heavy toll on any rubber parts in a water system. So I usually have to change toilet fill valves every 3-6 years. The worst part is (pun intended) that the part that breaks is usually just a simple (but complex-shaped) rubber ring/plug in the valve mechanism. Therefore, when that goes, the whole toiled fill valve mechanism has to be replaced... and it's really not that hard to get to the part, despite the thing not being considered "user serviceable". So it's a big waste to change a whole mechanism simply because of one failed rubber part... but it is what it is. What annoys me more is I've noticed that designs from the last 15 years and forward have started to rely a lot more on rubber parts in the design... which makes them even more highly susceptible to failure. But I digressed pretty far here. The point is, rubber will fail eventually... so it's a good idea to design with that in mind to make it the part more easy to replace. Hope the person that contacted you does show up so you can fix your turntable. If not, you might have to "McGiver" it a little. ![]() Quote:
If you see something old that appears heavy and well-made, always ask yourself: will someone actually make something like this today? If you think the answer is NO, then it's probably worth saving... or at least breaking down for the scrap/spare parts (but I usually reserve that only for stuff that can't be fixed.) Last edited by momaka; 01-16-2022 at 12:06 PM.. |
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Badcaps Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2009
City & State: Thessaloniki, Greece
My Country: Greece
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Your story reminded me when I still lived with my parents and the rubber seal of the toilet tank failed to perfectly seal the drain hole so we called plumber and he just installed the rubber in the opposite direction! LOL He said OK you are good to go for the next 6-8 years. Quote:
I actually found an MK2 at a ridiculously low price and couldn't help but buy it (250€ including a Kenwood equalizer as a free gift) It has 1 light burnt, looses some rpm at the quartz lock position and the switches to select 33rpm or 45 rpm speed are very had to make contact When I feel confident I might open a thread to service it. But at the moment I am too scared to touch it. It's like this: https://www.djshop.gr/content/images...-1200-mk2.jpeg but without plastic cover and with some cosmetic marks/wear |
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The Boss Stooge
Join Date: Oct 2003
City & State: Salem, MO
My Country: United States
Line Voltage: 240V @ 60Hz
I'm a: Professional Tech
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New Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
City & State: Trieste
My Country: Trieste
Line Voltage: 220V 50Hz
I'm a: Knowledge Seeker
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It's an Asus M2A-VM HDMI, with 6GB of DDR2 and an Athlon X4 640 that i paid a whole 10€ from China. I'm still running the onboard X1250 graphics (hey, at least it's not an nForce). I say all this so you understand that any half-decent C2Q build will run rings around it. The only thing I bought new for it is a Patriot 128 SSD, chosen using the industry standard of "Price + postage, lowest first" Well, every time I use (and especially these few days I use it quite a bit) I'm amazed at how well it runs. I'm watching stuff on Youtube while 7zipping stuff and despite heavy paging sometimes it still doesn't lag or stutter. The OS is bog standard Win 8.1 with classic shell, so no fancy carefully compiled linuxes or anything. The main issue there might be with Core2 today is that so many of them were built on cheap G31/G41 boards with only 2 DDR2 slots that practically limit you to 4GB ram maximum (Yes, there are a few 4GB Dimms that work on Intel, no I'm not paying 60€ for a module) |
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master hoarder
Join Date: May 2008
City & State: VA (NoVA)
My Country: U.S.A.
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![]() Heck, I'm so far behind on so many opened/pending projects, that I sometimes just want to take everything into a giant dumpster and start over again - really agonizing when you're this close to finishing a project, and then something small comes in a way that halts all progress... and lately, it seems every single thing I've been trying to repair has been like that. ![]() Indeed it will. Keep it running, and in 10 years, it might even have a really good "collectible" value, if it doesn't already. Quote:
The problem is when there are games that launch and work fine on 2k/XP NT kernel, but have a few bugs that can't really be fixed with any patch. For example, Need For Speed 3 and 4 have specific issues that randomly happen under 2k/XP... in addition to some modding tools developed for those games ![]() ![]() Otherwise, you're right - Win 9x is ages behind 2k and XP... and definitely nowhere as useful for any kind of work anymore, aside perhaps as a toy/experiment in a retro gaming PC... and nostalgia. ![]() Quote:
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As a bonus, our house also has tree roots growing somewhere in the sewer line (not sure if on our side or the county... but would rather not find out if it's on our side, as the county or our HOA might have us re-do the line, and that will for sure be at least several $1000's.) So every once in a lucky while, it blocks up. It's done it enough times that now I've bought a motorized snake and just deal with the thing when it happens - rain or sunshine (but usually always the coldest winter day, it seems - Murphy's law, I suppose! ![]() ![]() Quote:
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My dad recently dusted off his Sony TT from the 80's, after I dug it out for him and tested it. As for me, I never really got into turntables and vinyl. MP3's are just too convenient! (Well, not if you ask the young kids nowadays - they usually don't even know what an MP3 is. All streaming from online from their phone nowadays.) Quote:
![]() The AMD AM2 Quad-Cores are quite behind most C2Q stuff... and yet, even the AM2 X2 chips can still be useful. I actually have a similar PC set up for my parents as an HTPC box, but with lower specs (Athlon X4 635, 4 GB of RAM, 250 GB rust-spinner WD Blue, and onboard HD4350.) Runs fine for what they use it for (mostly online video streaming services.) Also, my "night" PC to mess around with / watch YT this fall/winter, has been an old Athlon X2 6000+. As outdated as it may be, it can still (but just barely) handle 1080p YT video if it's only 25 or 30 FPS and lower-bitrate stuff (or 720p @ 50 FPS.) Just have to give the YT scripts a few seconds to load before starting the video to avoid stutter in the beginning. Otherwise, that systems works quite well with latest Firefox Quantum and the same decently-quick 250 GB single-platter WD Blue 7200 RPM as the other system above. Quote:
If using Pale Moon for the majority of the browsing, but FF for the stuff that needs the performance of multi-core support, one can still get by OK with just 4 GB. Last edited by momaka; 01-18-2022 at 10:06 PM.. |
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