This afternoon I was helping an old friend of mine move crap from his old house, to his car, to his new house. Eventually we came across his old PC which was "dead" and I offered to take it as payment for helping him move stuff. The "dead" part of it was that it would only boot up and beep, though of course, I revived it. I'm thinking it was probably bad RAM, but I went ahead and reseated and rearranged everything, just to be sure.
It's got an A-Open motherboard, AX6BC is the model, in a whitebox "valtech" tower case. Nothing too fancy, 3x 5.25" bays, all external, and 3x 3.5" bays, two external. Pentium III 500MHz/512KB, not the best but not useless. 40x CD-ROM, 13GB WDC hard drive, all that standard stuff. Has a voodoo banshee (16MB) AGP video card, a soundblaster pci128, and some generic ISA modem, as well as a rather fancy pci wifi-g card with an antenna. Interesting enough this card works flawlessly in OSX, pops right up as an airport card. I'll probably sell it. I took out the potentially faulty RAM (a SyncMAX 256MB PC133 stick) and popped in two 256s from my serverbox, and that seems to work fine.
It's nice to have a generic PC kicking around now, good for testing and experimenting. It's installing win2k at the moment, and if I ever find a larger IDE hard drive I'll probably stuff that in there and put debian on it. Unfortunately it has no ethernet onboard (heck, it has almost NOTHING on board!) so I have to use a card. Even more unfortunately I couldn't find anything but an ISA 3com Etherlink III 10mbit. It works, just slowly. I have a 10/100 realtek 8139 around... but that means I have to find it which takes effort....
I'd take pictures but everyone already knows what it looks like.
It's got an A-Open motherboard, AX6BC is the model, in a whitebox "valtech" tower case. Nothing too fancy, 3x 5.25" bays, all external, and 3x 3.5" bays, two external. Pentium III 500MHz/512KB, not the best but not useless. 40x CD-ROM, 13GB WDC hard drive, all that standard stuff. Has a voodoo banshee (16MB) AGP video card, a soundblaster pci128, and some generic ISA modem, as well as a rather fancy pci wifi-g card with an antenna. Interesting enough this card works flawlessly in OSX, pops right up as an airport card. I'll probably sell it. I took out the potentially faulty RAM (a SyncMAX 256MB PC133 stick) and popped in two 256s from my serverbox, and that seems to work fine.
It's nice to have a generic PC kicking around now, good for testing and experimenting. It's installing win2k at the moment, and if I ever find a larger IDE hard drive I'll probably stuff that in there and put debian on it. Unfortunately it has no ethernet onboard (heck, it has almost NOTHING on board!) so I have to use a card. Even more unfortunately I couldn't find anything but an ISA 3com Etherlink III 10mbit. It works, just slowly. I have a 10/100 realtek 8139 around... but that means I have to find it which takes effort....
I'd take pictures but everyone already knows what it looks like.
