Hardware

Well, other than reversing the LAN and WAN ports of my firewall card, the transition went smoothly. The new system is up and going and waiting for a kernel recompile and reboot (sometime in the morning when I wake up I guess). The board I got was the Asus A7V600-X, SATA, 8 USB2 ports (in […]

In theory all my hardware should return to me. New motherboard for naked (this box) and my video card back. In theory. I have no illusions that they can still screw it up and leave me out in the cold for another week. I also got to borrow an airport card, at least temporarily. $othercoders

Had some odd (and very annoying, in the throwing-computers-out-the-window variety) crashes while using my windows box lately. Nothing diagnostic, just the whole box locking up and the audio stuttering. It’s an Athlon XP2600+ (barton) on an Asus A7N8X motherboard with an ATI Radeon 9800 PRO and 1G of 333 (I think) RAM. Nothing hugely odd

Tis Better to Have Loved and Lost (Your Powerbook) than Never have Loved (Your Powerbook) at All I was hoping to post an entry entitled “My Week with a Powerbook” last night or today, but after re-installing the OS several times over the last week, and having it freeze up and come back up with

Well, took in my Windows box to Discovery Computers where I got it a month ago to get the power supply replaced. That went just fine, but while he was ripping the old one out and putting the new one in he noticed a strange noise (which honestly wasn’t there before that I noticed) that

sigh The new windows box blew a gasket last night. Cat5 was over and I was burning a CD… wandered back from watching a DVD (Solaris) and a blank screen and box not wanting to turn on (and the P/S area very hot as well). This morning I threw a spare in there and sure

Finally got the new hard drive working. I used Cuvarack‘s suggestion I zeroed out the MBR with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1. Actually I left off the last two options the first time, and started nuking the entire drive. After it was doing this for about 10 minutes I gave up, ran it with bs

Well, I woke up this morning as usual and checked my email to find that Big Brother had notified me of a RAID error on UFies.org. Seems that sometime around 4am one of the partitions in the /var RAID5 array blew up. hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError

A couple of weeks back I cleaned all the hardware out of storage that is less than a Pentium-II and am wanting to get rid of it. It all mostly works but I don’t want it anymore, and don’t have the space to keep it. However, I can’t bear to just throw away working hardware,

Jeremy’s woes are the reason that I didn’t mind the $50 “assembly” fee when I ordered my new computers today. Of course, I didn’t include buying an OS, so not all hassles are going to be eliminated. But neither of them will run (sadly) Linux, so it’ll be just the assembly hassles that I’m eliminating.