I get some Tools in, and they are DTL-T10000, not DTL-T10000 H or A They are marked (by hand) DTL-T10000 R So I open it, and I find the high end pci815ve. No 233 MMX, it's got a 566 cpu I find a mainboard not supposed to be in the 10K. There's a sony service warranty stick I broke. Inside there's many stickers, even some notes on the metal. I opened it and the cpu is knocked out of the socket and broken. I ordered a 1Ghz coppermine from ebay. All of these units have network support. I suppose they sent them in for upgrade. The mainboard inside is supposed to be in a DTL-T10000 H So I have many physically marked DTL-T10000 R units with the guts of better machines inside. I'll take a video of this strange machine.
welcome to the club, the exact same thing happened to my tool atleast now i know that if i ever ship it anywhere, i'll just remove the PCI card.
The 566mhz CPU is/was a 'standard' replacement part available at refurb, due to the fact that the 233mhz were no longer available.
oh btw assembler, check the socket before placing the new cpu in it. on my case the cpu took some coils (or whatever they're called, small ring-like things) from the socket holes with it (they were stuck on the cpu pins) if you had the same happen, placing a new cpu is no help as the pins missing the coil would not get contact. just to be on the safe side
Yep, all three. ...Think of it like a returned GDEV/GBOX, they all came back with a PAL compatible motherboard, after repair. ...Same for Alpha Xbox Dev, CPU speed increased over time due to lack of availability of 'original' speed CPU's, when you returned your tower for repair. So R = Revised, in the case of a TOOL, but it would of originally gone back for repair or refurbishment.
