I built this beast for a friend of mine probably around 2002. He told me around 2006 it quit working, and he moved onto something newer.....yes, I ragged him hard about buying something 'out of the box' with Vista on it....but ohh well...and I completely forgot about it, I never asked what he did with it, and he never told me....and that system faded into a very distant memory.
Anyway, I stopped by to say hi yesterday....and in during the course of conversation, he mentions he's cleaning out a storage room and asked if I wanted that old system back.... Naturally, I said sure!! I'll always take free computers. I get it home...PSU is missing and 3 of the 4 DIMM's. Its pretty filthy, dust + nicotine sludge....and some bad caps. However, the important stuff is still there!!
Enlight full tower eATX
Iwill DVD266u-RN motherboard
2x 1.4GHz Tualatin-S processors
Only 512mb of the 2gb RAM was remaining
Plextor 24x10x40 IDE CDRW
Pioneer slot-load DVDROM
inclose 5.25 bay coolers (I used those in a LOT of systems)
ATI 8500 All-in-Wonder 64mb
SB Audigy
40gb IBM deathstar HDD (still good as if by some miracle)
A few pics...Recapped & testing fine. It would not POST prior to recapping.
Preparing to clean the filth:
Everything hotwashed & dried....
I have 2x 1GB DIMM's in the RAM bin, and a pair of 73gb 15K RPM U320 HDD's & RAID controller to spruce it up a tad, otherwise, it won't be getting much more than what's shown. yay for P3 era oddities!!
Anyway, I stopped by to say hi yesterday....and in during the course of conversation, he mentions he's cleaning out a storage room and asked if I wanted that old system back.... Naturally, I said sure!! I'll always take free computers. I get it home...PSU is missing and 3 of the 4 DIMM's. Its pretty filthy, dust + nicotine sludge....and some bad caps. However, the important stuff is still there!!
Enlight full tower eATX
Iwill DVD266u-RN motherboard
2x 1.4GHz Tualatin-S processors
Only 512mb of the 2gb RAM was remaining
Plextor 24x10x40 IDE CDRW
Pioneer slot-load DVDROM
inclose 5.25 bay coolers (I used those in a LOT of systems)
ATI 8500 All-in-Wonder 64mb
SB Audigy
40gb IBM deathstar HDD (still good as if by some miracle)
A few pics...Recapped & testing fine. It would not POST prior to recapping.
Preparing to clean the filth:
Everything hotwashed & dried....
I have 2x 1GB DIMM's in the RAM bin, and a pair of 73gb 15K RPM U320 HDD's & RAID controller to spruce it up a tad, otherwise, it won't be getting much more than what's shown. yay for P3 era oddities!!
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