burbie barebones no cpu now $49 plus shipping

[hoihtah]

i was very tempted to get this...
but the fact that it doesn't have a pci port... that really got me held back.

i would like to use my pci nic card in there instead of usb-ethernet.
the ones that are listed for $10... is a 10-base not 100.
which would slow things down.

anyhow... it's a decent toy if you have 100 or so lying around.

i ended up going with
EPOX EP-8KHA+ for 69
duron 950 oem for 44+shipping

i have some psu, keyboard, mouse, nic, modem, hds, memories and cdrws laying around...
thanx to all you guys...
so i opted out to use them... and build myself a small case for all these things instead.

 

[Fishmonger]

I just got this PC + Celery 533 Chip from Directron to replace my friend's old 486sx. She was looking for the cheapest solution available. I wanted to paint the PC black so I also got black USB keyboard and USB mouse from Directron. The total came out to be $120 shipped.

I also got the Xircom USB to Ethernet Adapter from Tigerdirect for $10. I already had a stick of spare 256MB PC100 RAM lying around as well as an old Maxtor 4gig HD.

I just installed WinXP on it, everything is running fine. WinXP didn't pick up the modem so I downloaded the latest Win2K drivers from the Motorola website (they didn't have XP ones) and the modem is working now.

So far, I'm please with this little puppy. The heatsink was kinda a pain to install though because of the tight clearance with the RAM.

I knows it's definitely a slow machine by today's standards, but this was the cheapest setup I could find for a machine that comes with basically everything and had enough speed to run XP smoothly. No complaints for $130.

 

[poppagene]

I ordered 2 of the powerleap socket 370 adaapters for my burbies. They are $25 plus shipping from powerleap. They allow you to run a flip chip with the BP810 ppga board that burbie comes with. They won't increase the fsb, however you can put a FSB66 intel celeron 766 into burbie with the powerleap neo socket 370 adapter. Hope this helps somebody.

 

[hojl]

poppagene:
so there is no way to FORCE 100fsb with the powerleap??
I did get my PIII to work but it was forced to 66fsb and I didn't try to play with it.

 

[DrakeTechno]

Finally threw mine together tonight (bought from Package2You last week w/ keyboard -last one- and mouse). Everything fired up smoothly, and seems to be humming along (Celery 433 with 128MB). I'd like to thank Package2You for pre-breaking the plastic clips on the bottom of the case and saving me the time /sarc. All in all though, they shipped quick, it seemed to be packaged pretty well, and it worked as promised. Also kudos to TigerDirect for getting my Wednesday order to me today (USB Ethernet and CPU Heatsink/Fans)... under three days for UPS Ground is always a shocker.
Tomorrow will be an adventure in spray painting...

-drake

 

[poppagene]

hojl, I can't find any way to increase the front side bus on the bp810. So, even with the powerleap, 766 celeron seems to be the limit for this board.

 

[FunkmasterT]

<< I organized a group buy for a bunch of these machines from package2you. As a part of this, I located some cheep accessories:

Tiger Direct
Xircom Portstation Starter Kit (Parallel, 2xPS2, 4xUSB) (no longer available)
Xircom USB to Ethernet Adapter $10 (PGENET10)
Xircom USB to SCSI Adapter $14 (PGSCSI)

Office Max B&M
Tech Solutions USB Keyboard $5 (In the Clearance Rack)

Add these to the hard disk and memory deals that change weekly, and the system can be built up for about $100.

As posted in the last (now expired) thread, the motherboard's manual is here.

I have also amassed most of the drivers for this machine:
Base Motherboard set
Hardware Random Number Generator Driver (aka Security Driver)
Ultra ATA Disk Driver
Win9x Graphics Driver
Win2k Graphics Driver
Win9x Sound Driver
Win2k Sound Driver
Motorola Software Modem (Win9x and Win2k)

Hope this summary helps someone... >>



thanks for the work...no XP drivers? if i bought it, i'd like to run XP on it

 

[sadlerjon]

FunkmasterT - I know someone that loaded XP, and only needed to add the Modem driver -- all of the other devices were supported by the base XP load. Of course, YMMV.

To get the modem working, use the Win2k driver on the Motorola site.

 

[bubsdaddy]

Yes...WinXP loads all drivers except the modem. The Win2K modem driver works.

 

[Dea]

Jes,
Could you please put what color number this was?

Hey, Could you guys post some painting tipfs for us newbies? Also, how do I go about painting the CD-ROM bezel?


I went to my local Menards hardware and bought a spray can of Chrome. (about $3.00)
I think they only sell one type. At least thats all I saw.
It was a perfect match.

If you need the exact brand, let me know. I'll look for it tomorrow.

I painted my case and handle Metallic Black with a Silver (Chrome) buttons. [/i] >>

 

[Fishmonger]

Spent today morning painting this little devil. I picked up some black and red spray paint from the local Ace Hardware.

Anyway, just finished putting the machine back together, and I took some photos for you guys to enjoy:

Barbie's Makeover

 

[VisionsUCI]

nice pics... sweet looking machine

 

[FenrisUlf]

Nice Job! It looks like what I did to mine a few months ago, except I painted the handle and the CD slot cover a darker red. I even used the same textured black paint! Makes it look 10x better.

 

[wesbc]

Some Win98SE installation question... I have installed all the listed driver but keeps getting this new hardware found for a Intel usb hub. I browse into c:\windows\temp\remove where when I install the chipset driver I see it writting to it. It seems to like it but had a problem when looking for a ifwh.cat file in my win98SE cd. I canceled it but it seem to have went. I'm not exactly sure what happened.

Second thing is when I go into the system properties, I see a (!) for the Advance Power Management. What's the deal with that. Thought it was a bios thing but can't find what's wrong.

Also is there a way to allocate more memory to the Video? I see that it seems to only use 1MB.

Thanks

 

[easystreet]

Don't forget about the linux-hacker thread on the barfie.
linux-hacker barfie thread

 

[commemoratives]

Finally assembled mine last night. Booted to Win2K and installed pretty well. Still have an error message, but I have to download and install the updated drivers... for which I need to update the modem driver.

Nice little machine, need to fiddle with the APM though. Suspend mode through either shut down or the power button doesn't seem to work.

Sending it to my mother-in-law anyway, so it is no big deal. Anyone want to guess her name?

Ahhh, the irony of it all.

 

[Jes]

Fishmonger,
Mine looks almost identical to your but I used a Rust-oleum Premium Metallic.
Color: Black Night Metallic. I kept the drives and buttons Silver.

Dea,
The spray paint I used is Rust-oluem Speciality Metallic:
Color Silver Metallic.

Next time PM me for a quicker response.

 

[blaisburn]

i got the exclamation mark in front of advanced power managment also,i just deleted it and thaught it would try to find it again upon bootup and it did not .i hope that does not mess anything up?

 

[sadlerjon]

I got APM to stop shreaking at my by setting it to APM 1.0 mode.

If you remove APM, you may have problems with your machine hanging when the inactivity timer expires in theBIOS. (At least I did)

 

[fxsts]

Just as an advice after owning and playing with some FlexATX systems, it seems that these FlexATX borads are a lot more sensitive to overclocking. When you think logically, it is obvious that the small space these boards have cannot have the components which allow boards to have more tolerance for overclocking such as more and larger capacitors.

For example, my Enlight FlexATX box has a board made by Asus, which many agrees on its quality, and the board had all the overclocking options including FSB and voltage adjustments. However, it could not run any of the Celerons, 333@500(1), 366@550(3), 566@850(1), which I have owned and ran overclocked very stably on other ATX boards.

 

[wesbc]

<< i got the exclamation mark in front of advanced power managment also,i just deleted it and thaught it would try to find it again upon bootup and it did not .i hope that does not mess anything up? >>



When I originally had this problem, the system would not shutdown by itself. Instead, it will tell me it's safe to turn off my system. But I went into properties and checked off force APM 1.0 and now it's working like a charm. Shutdown with no problem.

 

[garsh]

Ok, I just received my burbie.

Was anybody else who ordered from Directron surprised at just how poorly it was packed?
I know they say on their website that they won't ship it UPS ground due to rough handling,
but given the small size of the box and lack of packing material, it's no wonder they were
having problems! I'll have to think long and hard before ordering anything else from them.
Two of the plastic tabs that hold on the front plastic cover broke off in transit, even with
the upgraded "3-day select" shipping.

Anyhow, the processor & motherboard were not installed. I noticed that the supplied heat sink has
a little "pad" of some type where it contacts the cpu. Can anyone tell me what this is? Should I
use thermal grease between the cpu & heat sink before turning everything on?

I haven't really put together a computer since my Pentium 60, so this is kind of new to me.

 

[commemoratives]

garsh,

My packing was almost the opposite. Got the kit, mouse, and keyboard. Each was individually bubble wrapped including the mobo with an additional 7-10 feet as filler. It came in an old bulk keyboard box, but no in-transit damage at all.

My celly for this machine and PIII both had the retail box heat sink with the "pad". It is Intel's version of thermal compound and you just apply the fan combo directly to the chip. The material will "settle" in and is your thermal compound. If you were going to overclock I would remove it and apply something like Arctic Silver. Excessive compound is bad. Since there doesn't seem to be any way to OC this box I don't think you need to worry about using anything other than the pre-applied pad. Not sure how switching to another compound would impact your warranty if it is a retail box processor.

 

[garsh]

<< It is Intel's version of thermal compound and you just apply the fan combo directly to the chip. The material will "settle" in and is your thermal compound. >>

I suspected as much, but I didn't want to take any chances until I heard confirmation.

Thanks for the reply!

 

[hojl]

garsh

"Anyhow, the processor & motherboard were not installed. I noticed that the supplied heat sink has
a little "pad" of some type where it contacts the cpu. Can anyone tell me what this is? Should I
use thermal grease between the cpu & heat sink before turning everything on?"


this is not the retail HSF and corresponding thermal pad. I know what you are talking about. I assume you can just use it with this little spongy pad on there. I installed a different hsf (took a LOOONG time but it fits).