u/artlastfirst
r/3dprint r/vintagecomputing r/3DPPC r/reddit_ukr r/pcbuilding r/3Dprinting r/3D_Printing r/PCHardware r/PC_Builders r/GPURepair r/pcsetup r/computer r/sffpc
▲ 1 r/reddit_ukr
Shipping a custom personal computer to America?
I've got a computer I need to ship to my friend in America. Today I went to Nova Poshta and tried to send it out but the guy at the post office said i had to specify what model it was? He said if I didn't specify exactly what kind of computer it is there's a chance it would be thrown out at the customs checks?
It's just a regular small form factor computer made from used parts and it's put together in a 3d printed case I designed myself, I'm wondering if there's any way I would be able to ship it or if what the guy at Nova Poshta said is true. Which to me doesn't make much sense since I assume people ship their computers if they don't want to travel with them as luggage. Any advice would be appreciated, I'll probably check Ukrposhta next and maybe call the NP customer support.
u/artlastfirst — 26 days ago
▲ 10 r/vintagecomputing
ULi vs Nforce Chipset for Socket 939
I just picked up this beast, the ASRock 939A8X-M, it's a 939 motherboard with the
ULi M1689 chipset. So I know the 939 motherboards with the Nforce chipset are known for breaking but I couldn't really find any info about how the ULi chipsets faired. Are they more reliable than Nforce?
u/artlastfirst — 1 month ago
▲ 97 r/vintagecomputing
Feel like I just won the lottery
Picked up a Radeon X1600 Pro and Geforce 7600GS for 17 bucks including delivery. I didn't know if they'd work although the seller did include photos of tests. Luckily when I got them they both worked right away. Now I really want to put together a 775 build with one of them.
u/artlastfirst — 2 months ago
▲ 11 r/vintagecomputing
Asus Radeon HD 3650 AGP (computer boots, black screen, windows showing "vga device")
I got this really incredible card and I hope I'm missing something to get it working.
Physically the card seems great, basically like new, no swollen caps or missing smd components, dvi connectors both look good, checking the agp connector with a multimeter shows no shorts, there are no shorts on the molex external power connector either.
Plugging the card into the computer the PC boots and loads into windows, but there is no display, the screen is black. Touching the card I can feel the core getting hot. Switching to integrated graphics with the GPU plugged in I get into windows and the card is shown as a vga device. I've tried several different drivers for it (I'm on windows xp 32 bit). I've tried several different drivers but none of them have gotten the card working. But I figure since it's giving a black screen while in BIOS it's not a driver issue? Sorry if I'm missing something, I'm quite a novice at this.
u/artlastfirst — 2 months ago
▲ 9 r/GPURepair
Asus Radeon HD 3650 AGP (computer boots, black screen, windows showing "vga device")
I got this really incredible card and I hope I'm missing something to get it working.
Physically the card seems great, basically like new, no swollen caps or missing smd components, dvi connectors both look good, checking the agp connector with a multimeter shows no shorts, there are no shorts on the molex external power connector either.
Plugging the card into the computer the PC boots and loads into windows, but there is no display, the screen is black. Touching the card I can feel the core getting hot. Switching to integrated graphics with the GPU plugged in I get into windows and the card is shown as a vga device. I've tried several different drivers for it (I'm on windows xp 32 bit). I've tried several different drivers but none of them have gotten the card working. But I figure since it's giving a black screen while in BIOS it's not a driver issue? Sorry if I'm missing something, I'm quite a novice at this.
u/artlastfirst — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/GPURepair
Checking the pins with a multimeter there are no shorts. When plugged into a motherboard the core and bridge get warm, but there is no display and the computer doesn't post, and there are no beeps from the speaker, the cpu fan just spins up and stays like that. All the missing/damaged components are on the back of the card, the front of the card doesnt have anything missing and all the big capacitors are fine. the back of the board however has a ton of missing stuff that I tried my best to document.
I ordered another one of these broken cards and plan to transplant on the missing parts, what are the chances it will work after that? Also does anyone have any advice? this is my first time doing this lmao.
edit: okay guys sorry for not doing a better job checking, pins 2 and 3 which are both +5v are both shorted.
u/artlastfirst — 2 months ago