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Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes

chupo

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #30 on: May 14, 2009, 02:33:13 pm »
I did make poor quality photos. I'll post better and resized pitures later. For now, you can download the images to fully see them.
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mercyground

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #31 on: May 14, 2009, 06:30:23 pm »
an 586 motherboard? sheesh. Guess no point in doing my pics.

what on earth are you using it for?
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chupo

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #32 on: May 14, 2009, 06:37:47 pm »
^I want to make a retro computer, I have most of the components .

GA-586-DX fully functional :) .









Mods can delete my previous post .
« Last Edit: May 14, 2009, 07:13:24 pm by chupo »
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Whitehot

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #33 on: May 14, 2009, 08:06:46 pm »
 :o oh my gosh!!!

Do you have the screen shots to prove it works?

Dual socket 7!?  Them were the days :)
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Badbonji

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #34 on: May 15, 2009, 08:40:04 am »
Wow it looks ancient!
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Beekeeper

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #35 on: May 15, 2009, 11:00:36 am »
chupo :)

finally nice photos indeed. you know i completely forgot that there were dual socket 7  :o motherboards !

seems you will be the winner, if only  :P this pc works
« Last Edit: May 15, 2009, 11:01:52 am by Beekeeper »
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chupo

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #36 on: May 15, 2009, 02:33:52 pm »
The last time I used this board, it was working, so I felt that there is no reason it wouldn't POST this time.... and it did pass POST (PowerOnSelfTest), but since I didn't have any CPU cooling at the moment, had a poor quality video card and no hard drive, this is the only thing I can show as proof so far.









It works!!!!  ;D ;D ;D
« Last Edit: May 15, 2009, 02:43:20 pm by runn3R »
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runn3R

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #37 on: May 15, 2009, 02:51:59 pm »
well done chupo, it's enough   :)
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chupo

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #38 on: May 15, 2009, 02:55:43 pm »
Can you tell me the manufacturing date based on the SN?
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mercyground

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #39 on: May 16, 2009, 08:39:32 am »
29th Nov 1996 according to that bios screen.

I think he's won this one. Gratz.
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Elemental_Dragon

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #40 on: May 16, 2009, 08:31:05 pm »
Daaaaamn that's old - we did find an old motherboard - the cartidge type processers but turned out not to be gigabyte and it then swiftly got hit with a baseball bat..... so it doesn't work anymore lol

~Bex
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Badbonji

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #41 on: May 17, 2009, 05:09:44 pm »
Quote from: Elemental_Dragon on May 16, 2009, 08:31:05 pm
it then swiftly got hit with a baseball bat..... so it doesn't work anymore lol

~Bex

Erm? Why lol :P
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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #42 on: June 01, 2009, 12:04:19 pm »
Hi All

it's time to announce the winner.......
the oldest motherboard was shown by chupo!
Our best congrats!

his GA-586-DX was manufactured in September of 1996 (39-th week of 1996, as it's SN starts with SN9639...) so it's nearly 13 years old and it's still working!



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Pottypete

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #43 on: June 01, 2009, 07:35:35 pm »
Well done chupo You de man,

Bet you wish the Prize was for sunglasses and coconut sun tan oil with this weather ;D

Cheers
Pete
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simonw

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Re: Competition: Show us the oldest working GIGABYTE motherboard and WIN prizes
« Reply #44 on: June 02, 2009, 07:06:49 am »
Congrats to chupo and well deserved, that GA-586-DX definitely takes some beating.

Personally, I had a Skt 370 GA-6PMM, about 8.5 yrs old, so I thought I had a chance, but when chupo sent in his pics, that was the end of that.
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