PC died tonight

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u2slow

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Well... my trusty Asus A7V w/750Mhz Athlon seems to have packed it in. Just a routine reboot and now it won't boot on anything - scsi, ide, floppy, nothing. Finishes POSTing and just sits. Kind of crappy as its my most modern PC, and is my http server. :(

So on goes the MacGyver hat :D

The only other system I have operational atm (besides laptop):

Compaq Deskpro 233Mhz. (desktop case) Factory scsi. NT4 installed.
(I messed with some Dell NT4/USB drivers a while back without any definitive results - I'll get back to this)

Tossed in some extra sdram... 416MB ought to do it. Swapped over the 36GB Cheetah. Now it would be *really* nice if the USB worked and I could plug in my 120GB external.

Well.... it did work. :cool:

Slapped on Apache, fat32 driver for NT4, and an ip updater program. Now I can serve pages and access my data again. Whew!

(Good thing I don't toss out all my junky old PCs. :D )
 
was that an old Slot Athlon?

or was it actually a TBird?

*ninja edit* oh... a 462. KT133 board... ahh. the good ol' days.

My old 550 Slot is still running... with a friend... and the old AMD 751 Irongate FIC-SD11 board
*knock on wood*

oh, and most modern?!

it's actually a blessing then! no better reason to upgrade!!
 
It must be a Tbird... socket A.

I don't game - and my Sempron laptop takes care of modern apps.

I do have a Coppermine dually and another single Tualatin coming my way. :D
 
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