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#21
02-17-2018, 04:56 AM
Nice exchange guys.
Just been working on my IBM desktop server. Dual monitors as well. That is my main working machine for all kind of stuff. Got an old HP mini-tower from my girlfriend. Just found out that it has 5 SATA connections. Got the get 4 additional cables, then I can put the 4 360GB drives in and make a RAID as a quick backup machine and to stream my music.
Lately had just started my old DELL INSPIRON up Running a DEBIAN 7 LINUX. They still run but the batteries are nearly dead. After some 15 years still holding 20 - 40 minutes thou.
Just been working on my IBM desktop server. Dual monitors as well. That is my main working machine for all kind of stuff. Got an old HP mini-tower from my girlfriend. Just found out that it has 5 SATA connections. Got the get 4 additional cables, then I can put the 4 360GB drives in and make a RAID as a quick backup machine and to stream my music.
Lately had just started my old DELL INSPIRON up Running a DEBIAN 7 LINUX. They still run but the batteries are nearly dead. After some 15 years still holding 20 - 40 minutes thou.
#22
02-25-2018, 08:28 PM
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Lake City, Florida
Posts: 1,934
This weekend I hooked an external monitor to the Alienware and found that the lines showed on it as well, so I know now that it's a graphics card or motherboard issue. So I pulled the graphics card out to try out the 'ol oven trick! Took some of the lines away believe it or not, but it's still not completely right... So I think I'm going to bake it one last time and if it doesn't do anything, I may bake the motherboard and see if it's causing the artifacting.
#24
03-05-2018, 09:32 AM
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Lake City, Florida
Posts: 1,934
LOL, yeah...
So I baked the Alienware GPU again, this time for a few more minutes, didn't help though, so I am going to try baking the motherboard and see if that does anything. I also threw an old Radeon 8800XL AGP card into the oven with it that I got for free that was no good at the time, didn't display anything at all, and surprisingly it fixed it! For now anyhow. I tossed in one of my OLD scratch built PC's running an Intel brand motherboard, a 478 socket P4 3ghz with hyperthreading (3.0e model to be exact), 2gb of DDR, and I tossed in a 300gb HD that I plan to try to setup multiple OS's to be able to boot into; :Linux Mint, Windows 98 SE, Windows XP Pro, Windows 7 Ultimate, and may even try Windows 10 on it just to see how it runs it lol. I want to build it into a "retro" PC, something I would have built to be a high end system of the early to mid 2000's.
It's dirty as all heck right now, but I'm just making sure that everything is functional right now. Then I'm going to completely tare it apart and make it spotless. I need to pull the motherboard out anyhow because there's 2 capacitors that I need to replace; one is starting to puff up, and one is actually LEAKING, but the crazy thing is still working lmao
I even scored an old PS2 ball mouse and a PS2 keyboard at the thrift store this weekend for all of $3 to use on it lol. The keyboard was DISCUSTING!!! I completely blew it apart and cleaned it, looks and works like brand new now
So I baked the Alienware GPU again, this time for a few more minutes, didn't help though, so I am going to try baking the motherboard and see if that does anything. I also threw an old Radeon 8800XL AGP card into the oven with it that I got for free that was no good at the time, didn't display anything at all, and surprisingly it fixed it! For now anyhow. I tossed in one of my OLD scratch built PC's running an Intel brand motherboard, a 478 socket P4 3ghz with hyperthreading (3.0e model to be exact), 2gb of DDR, and I tossed in a 300gb HD that I plan to try to setup multiple OS's to be able to boot into; :Linux Mint, Windows 98 SE, Windows XP Pro, Windows 7 Ultimate, and may even try Windows 10 on it just to see how it runs it lol. I want to build it into a "retro" PC, something I would have built to be a high end system of the early to mid 2000's.
It's dirty as all heck right now, but I'm just making sure that everything is functional right now. Then I'm going to completely tare it apart and make it spotless. I need to pull the motherboard out anyhow because there's 2 capacitors that I need to replace; one is starting to puff up, and one is actually LEAKING, but the crazy thing is still working lmao
I even scored an old PS2 ball mouse and a PS2 keyboard at the thrift store this weekend for all of $3 to use on it lol. The keyboard was DISCUSTING!!! I completely blew it apart and cleaned it, looks and works like brand new now
#25
03-06-2018, 05:14 AM
GREAT WORK!
That keyboard really looks different now. Yuk - you probably wore gloves to clean that one out.
I've got to go and buy 4 SATA cables to finally put a RAID into my second PC. I want to use that one to be able to do unattended backups to the NAS.
I hope that this time I won't forget to take a pic or two as well.
That keyboard really looks different now. Yuk - you probably wore gloves to clean that one out.
I've got to go and buy 4 SATA cables to finally put a RAID into my second PC. I want to use that one to be able to do unattended backups to the NAS.
I hope that this time I won't forget to take a pic or two as well.
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