Nice haul LC 
Perhaps you should have a USB 2.0 PCI card in your arsenal to shove in any PC to copy files over more smoothly.
I was also given a pearler of a PC on Friday, it's kept me busy all weekend whilst I have been on hopsital/sick leave. It's a beast, the dirtiest and dustiest PC I've ever come across - it took 5+ hours to clean!
- Abit IC7 mobo (Intel 875 chipset)
- Prescott 3Ghz P4 CPU
- 2GB Corsair RAM (the ones with dozens of LEDs on the top which flash with any HD activity!)
- Radeon 9800XT
- Audigy 2, wireless NIC
- 2 x 80GB SATA HD in RAID
- In a massive *green* case with window, not painted it came like that!
... I kid you not Terrible condition though, every fan and heatsink was filled with thick black dust (not smelly though - not from a smoker), and some of the dust must have had moisture and it corroded some of the coloured metal anodising on the heatsinks!
It's still causing problems (I think one of the HDs is hosed), but I'm closer than ever to having a working Hackintosh - never had the right hardware to do this.
JB
Perhaps you should have a USB 2.0 PCI card in your arsenal to shove in any PC to copy files over more smoothly.
I was also given a pearler of a PC on Friday, it's kept me busy all weekend whilst I have been on hopsital/sick leave. It's a beast, the dirtiest and dustiest PC I've ever come across - it took 5+ hours to clean!
- Abit IC7 mobo (Intel 875 chipset)
- Prescott 3Ghz P4 CPU
- 2GB Corsair RAM (the ones with dozens of LEDs on the top which flash with any HD activity!)
- Radeon 9800XT
- Audigy 2, wireless NIC
- 2 x 80GB SATA HD in RAID
- In a massive *green* case with window, not painted it came like that!
... I kid you not
Terrible condition though, every fan and heatsink was filled with thick black dust (not smelly though - not from a smoker), and some of the dust must have had moisture and it corroded some of the coloured metal anodising on the heatsinks!It's still causing problems (I think one of the HDs is hosed), but I'm closer than ever to having a working Hackintosh - never had the right hardware to do this.
JB