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Sometimes it really pays to be a geek [message #91252]

Wed, 10 October 2007 16:47

Messages: 1124
Registered: July 2005

Senior Member

Woke up this morning and came upstairs to my office where I was met with a
post screen saying that my system drive was nowhere to be found. First of
all, I hadn't rebooted my machine before I went to bed so I suspected
something disastrous right there. Anyway, I pulled the system drive and put
in in my other backup office computer. It worked (both mobos are VIA
chipset) so I started scratching around here looking for another mobo with a
VIA chipset so I could avoid having to jump through a bunch of hoops and I
found an old ASUS A8V-DLX here that I has scorched pretty good hotswapping
PCI cards in a while back. I had figured it was toast but I figured I'd
give it a try. It's just a bit blackened around the edges of a couple of the
slots. I poked around until I found my old AMD dualcore 4400 and heatsink
that I had replaced with the Opteron 185, snagged a couple of PC 2700 RAM
sticks out of my old Paris 333 MHZ mobo, dropped them in the (400 MHZ rated)
RAM slots, installed the CPU, loaded the AGP card from the dead computer and
tested it. All the PCI slots worked but the onboard NIC and audio controller
was toast so I dropped an old Intel Gigabyte NIC card and a Soundblaster in
it and I'm good as new.

I am typing this on the new frankencomp.

;o)

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Re: Sometimes it really pays to be a geek [message #91253 is a reply to message #91252]

Wed, 10 October 2007 16:20

EK Sound

Messages: 939
Registered: June 2005

Senior Member

"hot swap" and "PCI cards" are two phrases that should never appear in
the same sentence... ;-)

David.

DJ wrote:

> Woke up this morning and came upstairs to my office where I was met with a
> post screen saying that my system drive was nowhere to be found. First of
> all, I hadn't rebooted my machine before I went to bed so I suspected
> something disastrous right there. Anyway, I pulled the system drive and put
> in in my other backup office computer. It worked (both mobos are VIA
> chipset) so I started scratching around here looking for another mobo with a
> VIA chipset so I could avoid having to jump through a bunch of hoops and I
> found an old ASUS A8V-DLX here that I has scorched pretty good hotswapping
> PCI cards in a while back. I had figured it was toast but I figured I'd
> give it a try. It's just a bit blackened around the edges of a couple of the
> slots. I poked around until I found my old AMD dualcore 4400 and heatsink
> that I had replaced with the Opteron 185, snagged a couple of PC 2700 RAM
> sticks out of my old Paris 333 MHZ mobo, dropped them in the (400 MHZ rated)
> RAM slots, installed the CPU, loaded the AGP card from the dead computer and
> tested it. All the PCI slots worked but the onboard NIC and audio controller
> was toast so I dropped an old Intel Gigabyte NIC card and a Soundblaster in
> it and I'm good as new.
>
> I am typing this on the new frankencomp.
>
> ;o)
>
>

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Re: Sometimes it really pays to be a geek [message #91254 is a reply to message #91253]

Wed, 10 October 2007 17:26

Messages: 1124
Registered: July 2005

Senior Member

Heh!!!.......man!!! they can really throw some sparks if properly partially
interfaced

;o)

"EK Sound" <ask_me@nospam.net> wrote in message news:470d5fe1$1@linux...
> "hot swap" and "PCI cards" are two phrases that should never appear in the
> same sentence... ;-)
>
> David.
>
> DJ wrote:
>
>> Woke up this morning and came upstairs to my office where I was met with
>> a post screen saying that my system drive was nowhere to be found. First
>> of all, I hadn't rebooted my machine before I went to bed so I suspected
>> something disastrous right there. Anyway, I pulled the system drive and
>> put in in my other backup office computer. It worked (both mobos are VIA
>> chipset) so I started scratching around here looking for another mobo
>> with a VIA chipset so I could avoid having to jump through a bunch of
>> hoops and I found an old ASUS A8V-DLX here that I has scorched pretty
>> good hotswapping PCI cards in a while back. I had figured it was toast
>> but I figured I'd give it a try. It's just a bit blackened around the
>> edges of a couple of the slots. I poked around until I found my old AMD
>> dualcore 4400 and heatsink that I had replaced with the Opteron 185,
>> snagged a couple of PC 2700 RAM sticks out of my old Paris 333 MHZ mobo,
>> dropped them in the (400 MHZ rated) RAM slots, installed the CPU, loaded
>> the AGP card from the dead computer and tested it. All the PCI slots
>> worked but the onboard NIC and audio controller was toast so I dropped an
>> old Intel Gigabyte NIC card and a Soundblaster in it and I'm good as new.
>>
>> I am typing this on the new frankencomp.
>>
>> ;o)

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