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Server Being Replaced... and Another PC Back to Life! |
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What the title says. 3nodding
I scrapped the 8th PC for hardware. I kept the following:
Floppy Drive
Both Hard Drives (4.3 GB and 8.4 GB)
Both CD Drives (Old 24X CD Reader and 32X CD Writer)
USB 2.0 Card that I couldn't get to work because the stupid Dell-proprietary extender bugged out and crashed Windows so often, and it wasn't Windows' fault! stressed
IDE cables
Dell-proprietary power supply (200W)
I should take the motherboard out, but I don't know if anyone even has a Dell Optiplex GX1 desktop tower model anymore. sweatdrop I specified that because there are two different models of the same named series.
In all, I have three floppy drives, three hard drives, two CD drives, a sound card, two network cards, two modem cards, two video cards, three Socket 7 CPUs, three old motherboards (one an AT, two others an ATX), some Dell-proprietary things (power supply, motherboard, hardware card extender), some IDE drive cables, and some old AT peripheral cables that were left over from the Cyrix Computer.
Also left over is a case from Cyrix that will be incompatible with future hardware; I scrapped it a few years earlier.
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On a somewhat related note, the Dell Dimension 8200 computer is finally up and running. Mom thinks that someone left the computer on, and that overheated the power supply. Bullocks. If anything, the CPU would've gone out first, and power supplies can generally withstand warm temperatures. I kept stating that the power supply went out because we had so many power outages in the last two years (despite having a power surge protector). I knew that because I wanted to use the computer, so I turned the PC on and noticed it didn't start up at all, and the light was blinking orange - indicating a bad power supply. Never knew that until a few weeks ago, and the problem was first discovered just last year. gonk
A few weeks ago, I experimented on the Dimension 8200 computer by taking the original power supply out and replaced it with a old and generic 250W power supply. I then moved the old Acer Aspire from its location and hooked the Dimension up. This time, the power light stayed orange. I was closer to solving the problem. Funny that a solid orange light means that it is either a bad CPU or system board. I was like, "NOOOOO!" I didn't want to buy a new CPU, and I'll be damned if the system board went dead on me at all. Then again, it is a Dell computer. Then it hit me.
On September 3rd, 2007, I was trying to solve a mysterious rebooting problem with my sister's computer, and I wanted to format a 13.6 gigabyte hard drive, which surprisingly, was the original hard disk for the 8th PC! razz It was still in the 5th PC, so I went downstairs to the basement and removed the side cover. I noticed that the 5th's power supply had the same inputs as the Dell Dimension's original power supply's. I was shocked not because of that fact, but because I didn't notice that last year! And I added, upgraded, and replaced hardware over the years on that PC! Regarding the replacement of the 5th PC's power supply, I first said I wouldn't do it, then I said I would do it later. I stated this because I was still working on her computer at the time.
Then, on September 4th, 2007, I experimented on the 5th PC...
Replaced the power supply with the older one that was originally in the 7th, then the Dimension, the the 7th again. It unsurprisingly worked. Left the 5th alone and went to work on the Dimension. Hooked up the power supply that I took out of the 5th PC. I then noticed that the 5th's power supply was not designed the same way as the original one was (the PSU's input was on the bottom while the Dell one was on the top; the fans on both were located on the right). Of course, I didn't care, and I do some unorthodox things to computer hardware just for a workaround, and still succeeded, so I rotated the PSU vertically 180 degrees and left the chassis open. Moved the old Acer Aspire out of its original location yet again and hooked the computer up and powered it on. It powered on. But since it was idle for nearly two years, the CMOS settings were lost. The CMOS holds saved information for the system clock and currently set BIOS settings. Set the system clock and was ready to run.
Windows XP Professional, possibly gold (original) version. Mom never bothered to even use Windows Update during the times she used the PC, so it was almost impossible to patch any security issues and to upgrade the OS to Windows XP Service Pack 2... At least the computer is working.
The next day, I scrapped the computer mentioned above and placed the Dimension 8200 where the server previously was. It's still there today. 3nodding
 Ami Sapphire · Thu Sep 06, 2007 @ 08:08am · 0 Comments |
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