Results of clean living :)

#1 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 - 00:06 68kMLA

Today I found two P4 systems in the hall before I went home:

System 1:

ATX case with missing side

Intel P4 motherboard with P4 2.53 ghz processor, heatsink/fan

No drives or memory

Dead power supply

AGP video card

System 2:

Shuttle case without drive cage or case cover

Pentium 4 2.4 ghz processor with ICE cooler

Power supply

PCI sound card

Both systems work with added memory and in the case of system 1 a replacement power supply.

A while back I picked up another Shuttle from the same location. Too bad I didn't keep the cover.

#2 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 - 00:09 68kMLA

Cool. I wish I had more conquests around here.

#3 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 - 00:17 68kMLA

Normally the conquests around here are few and far between - Mac conquests especially so.

Considering before these two computers the fastest one I had was a P3-1ghz I'm really happy right now....

#4 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 - 01:20 68kMLA

Yeah even though a P4 is obsolete it will seem "uberfast" compared to all P3s.

#5 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 - 01:50 68kMLA

That's what I am hoping for.

A friend of my wife has been unloading spare PC parts on me and just gave me a 40GB hard disk tonight. Wheeeee! [

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#6 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 - 02:53 68kMLA

I'm getting my spare P4 ready for sale, it's in quite crappy condition but works, it's a gourmet in tastes of RAM, though, I keep getting POST beeps with all of my PC-133/100 sticks. I'm gonna take Q-tips, dip 'em in rubbing alcohol, and rub them over the RAM stick's contacts, then stick them in the slot to see if it cleans anything off.

#7 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 - 03:17 68kMLA

The board with the 2.53 ghz chip has decided totally on its own not to boot. It may be the power supply I'm using but I don't have a spare just yet.

The Shuttle has XP on it for now.

#8 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 - 00:30 68kMLA

The Shuttle has XP on it for now.

What's gonna go on it: the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10?

#9 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 - 04:58 68kMLA

Ubuntu is definitely a possibility. I have used prior versions without too much trouble. Mandriva and OpenSUSE are also possibilities.

This morning I jury-rigged a drive cage and cover out of card stock to help with cooling the system. It helped quite a bit with noise as well.

#10 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 - 19:03 68kMLA

After connecting another power supply to the faster P4 it started right up.

Now to get enough parts to make it useful.

#11 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 - 19:30 68kMLA

Is it possible that I get POST beeps on an optiplex if I use 64 or 128 MB RAM sticks?