Revival Project - The Ingredient

Okey, This is continuation of my soon to be scraped project (as I don't thing the motherboard is still usable), but heck, it good to overuse my limited free time.

So this is the essential things for a PC that I manage to bring in from Kelantan to KL in my bag pack. Its all is scraped from my old unusable PC and some of it is my spare parts that I own (some of it).

The Motherboard


This actually kinda pathetic to be using this if u declare yourself as a high end computer computer user or a pro PC gamer, but its ok if u declare yourself as a Lobug (Low Budget Geek). Well its kinda a privilege to be having this antique if its still running as long as its NOT your main PC.

It is a Intel mainboard socket 370 with a plug and play processor slot. But the problem is for this revival project is that last time (as I remember it), this mainboard is no longer usable and thats the reason the PC was sent to the storage room.


The Processor


This Is the Processor for the device, the brain of it, and yeah, I secure it on the board using cable ties. Its a plug and play processor and I haven't been able to separate the processor from the board and I event think that it is inseparable. It is a Celeron 500mhz which you might laugh at its capabilities but believe it or not, I'm running on Window XP the last time this PC is running and its still usable for normal use and by normal I mean watching a DVD movies, Watching TVs, Playing Old games, and even PSone emulator. This is also the one that is suspected faulty for now.


R.A.M.


The R.A.M is just some old sdram with the memory of 256MB. Suffician for ordinary use.


Graphic Cards


This is a Savage 3d card that came with the pc when i first bought it. its only 8MB and it suck. Still the mother boarde doesnt have onboard Graphic, so this will do for a while.


This is another Graphic card that I have that is actualy my friends. I 'accidently' pack it and brought it here. Hehe... It is a GForce 4 AGP ^$MB with half of the memory gone. It can only run at 32MB


Sound Card


The sound card is not something to be proud of either. Its a AlS4000 from Advance logic System that is not even supported by Window XP. I have to manually download the driver to use this sound card.


Network Card


To tell u the truth, I don't even know how the heck i got this Network Card. When I was checking for my stuff, there it is. So my friends, if this is yours, and you want it back, try asking, MAYBE I'll give it back. :P


TV Card


A PixelView Play TV Pro. Nothing more to add.


Hard Disc


This is a 10GB hardisk that I scraped from an old pc runing on win 95. The pc is no longger usable, if not i might setup DSL on it.


Extra (Just a floppy, a Power Suply and a Fan)

Revival Project - Intro

Firstly Selamat Hari Raya to all muslim friends. Its been a very short raya for me this year as I only got 2 off days for raya. But this post isn't about me whining about how I don't have the time to visit my friends during raya, but this is my blunt attempt to 'revive' my old 500mhz intel celeron PC.

I've been working in KL for about 3 month now, and I didn't bring my trustworthy companion here, my Sempron 3000 PC. I was thinking of bringing it here but my sister is using it back home and postponed it for a while. Now I was thinking to buy a new low spec PC for her, or assemble me a PC as powerful as my pocket can give me. So now, I'm waiting for AMD (as rumors I hear) to launch its new desktop processor, The Phenom processors, before I make any decision on what system I'm going to use. That would probably take to the end of this year, so that leave me another 2 month with no PC at my dispatch which is quite intolerable for me.

And then, during raya, I scrap my old PC from my storage room, unassemble it all, and take out all my PC conponent that I have and I realize that I might be able to 'revive' this PC back and I can still use it for the mean time.


So, I pack all of the stuff in my beg, and begins this uncertain REVIVAL PROJECT.