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I've refurbed nearly a hundred sets so far. Three liberal cleanings with contact cleaner is the magic number, letting them dry completely between cleanings. After that they either work perfectly or they are scrap for parts recycling. If they test well, I spray some Tectran 500-55 Penetrating Dielectric Lubricant in there and they will not need to be serviced again for a minimum of 20 years.

Sounds like a trip to the local electronics shop for contact cleaner is in order.

Be sure to get dielectric lubricant spray only, any other lubricant spray including white lithium grease will gum up the works and cause damage. I do have white lithium grease spray that I use for bearings and hinges in trackballs and cases and such.

NES 500xj's are especially great paired with the NT Mini's 7800 core (7800 never got an xj), I did a vid on those once. There is also a Competition Pro for NES--Those are completely useless, the nes 500xj is only 'mostly useless'

Hmm I do have a MiSTer. Hadn’t thought of using with 7800. 

Why lost cause? Surely there are parts to salvage, that in and of itself is a win!

Yeah, those Dells are tricky with their custom case designs. Still perfectly usable though. Plenty of slots for upgraded GPUs, sound cards or network cards.

Well, the power supply died the first time I tried it. So I bought a new one but I had to cut up the case to mount it and now the weird clamshell case won’t close all the way with the power supply in it because it doesn’t fit.

I would see if I can move the motherboard to a different case but it has a proprietary ribbon cable and PCB for the front USB and the power button. That’s assuming the motherboards screw holes will even line up with an ATX case.

The real reason I grabbed it off the side of the road was for the CRT, and that works fine so I’m happy with that.

Hulk: "Puny power supply. Power supply should go BANG! Like Hulk!"

Snap, crackle, pop and the blue smoke is never good

‘‘Twas a roadside Pentium 4. The CRT works, which I am more interested in. And it gives me a chance to teach my nephew how to replace power supplies and test/reinstall ram and cpu. 

Making memories and teaching the lad skills -- awesome.  

Nah I still use them... a USB hub, external hard drive, and for charging PS3 controllers and for loading games onto my PSP... though now even micro USB is being made obsolete by USB-C.

They are indeed things you previously entered.

I just say "good job" and leave it at that if I'm in a rush.

I used to write "Great Seller!  Cthulhu Loves You!",  clearly not everyone has my sense of humor/style/surreality, but some people thought it was the coolest thing ever.

While others probably thought,  What's that guy smoking, and where can I get some?

Impressed as well! Having been briefly reminded as to the sounds of Apple ][ gaming... the dribble fart-like sounds out of the tinny speaker and the out of focus sloppy composite graphics, my hats off to you sir!  ?

Hey, at least the floppy drive’s faster than a 1541!

Roughly 100 untested sticks of mixed DDR2 and PC100 RAM, two pentium 4 2.8ghz, and an Athlon 64 X2.

Sounds like a fun project.

I had an original All-In-Wonder-Radeon, and it was in a Win98 machine.  I would think the 9700 would work for DOS, being from 2002.

Nice. Treasure hunt time!

Oh, I was out of town for a while and totally forgot about it. I should probably get back to fixing that damn 80 columns card!

@bluejay If you still need help drop me a line. I just got done fixing what sounds like an identical problem on my own system.

that is a nice tv

I just got one yesterday... I love it. I dunno if it's 27" but it's 20-something... within the golden range of CRTs (not to small you can't see anything and not too big that you can see the red/blue/green rectangles). 

This is going in my basement (my retro-nook is finally coming together) so I didn't want another WEGA (I had one, despite being the same screen size, it felt like it weighted twice as much) and 27" really is the perfect size. There's also a pretty good write-up on RGB modding it, so that'll be a future goal too.

So this thing seems to work. Monitor is nice and sharp (and sexy green), self test succeeds, and was able to load a couple titles via the cassette interface. The duo disk makes weird noises and the light stays on, so that will need attention once I actually have floppies to read.

Sounds good so far. All my green monitors have hit the recap stage and I really need to find someone in the area with the skills to redo one or two. Me.. I'm scary with solder!

$70? Damn!

Congrats!

I still need to finish the second mission pack. I found it to be a significant difficulty spike over the base game and the first mission back.

How did "Fletch" hold up? Stripes is still great, just watched it last year.

Eeeeh... It has its moments, but as an adult, it's all the more obvious it's just Chevy Chase's excuse to dress up and play not particularly funny characters.

We saw Chevy at a Screening of "Caddyshack" a few months back.  He answered questions for around 90 minutes afterwards. He came off very likeable and still funny. Said Fletch is one of his favorite movies he was in....My 15 yr old son LOVED Caddyshack and thought Chevy was cool. We both are huge fans of the TV show "Community".

Don't think that was my fault.

I just replaced mine!

The older LGA775 fans and sinks seemed to be slightly better made than what they currently produce.

I remember the opposite: The pulse phones where you push a button on the phone keypad and it would click the number of times for the key. Unsure what it did for star or asterisk, probably 11 or 12. Anyhoot, ? those Jaguars ? just don't like your rotary phone clicks.

^This!  While still not perfect, having a lot of DISH movie channels (which I no longer have *sigh*) to flip through allowed me to find something most of the time,  Like do I want a Horror movie?, do I want a gangster flick?, do I want an 80s movie? etc.,...Of course, that said I do still like Netflix, and I wish I had apps for all of those services on my DISH box...But Stream too much and you're not saving much, plus you have to really search (can't flip through channels) and may have streaming issues...

The biggest mistake I ever made was selling off my DVD collection because Netflix offered all of it, and I assumed it would stay that way.

I still also have a huge DVD collection and some Blu Rays too...

I'm not so sure even an Arcade Faithful Port would be Good...I see Double Dragon as a product of its time...Very fun in the 80s ...for about 3 weeks ... or so...Just seems like one of those ideas that didn't seem good for very long.  I put Rampage in the same boat...Jus my 2 cents...

i own the LYNX game. It's not good.

Some games may have been fun when they first came out, like say Karate Master or Karateka (TBH I get those 2 confused), but what good were those after Street Fighter 2 came out?   

And although Double Dragon was fun for a time, wouldn't ya rather play a Streets of Rage game? 

I do get it though,..I mean I still love Galaxian even though Galaga came out.