Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csi comp uter
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:33:16AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Hugh Saunders wrote:
>
> > yeah, mine had the heat sink and fan from a 486, fitted nicely.
> > It was stable [even when overclocked] running woody with an smp kernel.
> > Died because i added a graphics card before it had powered down properly
> > [user-error, not hardware failure!]
>
> This board is actually one of the more stable ones we have around, now
> that it's been fitted with the pentium heatsink that is on it. I haven't
> done any capacitor mods on it though.
>
> It's running NT 4.0 Enterprise, I regularly see 3-4 months uptime with no
> problem, except when the MCSE gets to it.
>
> > > ASUS P4B533, but management is "it works, why replace it?"
> > i'll have the bp6 when you get it replaced ;-)
>
> I'm hoping we don't end up with a Compaq/HP P.O.S replacing it, but
> that's what the MCSE wants.
so its a matter of time then?
> I'd rather have known good hardware, that if something goes wrong, I
> don't have to wait a few hours minimum for a Compaq minimum wage tech to
> come out and fix it.
agree, is good to have tech support but wouldnt be confident about a
system i couldnt at least have a go at my self.
hugh
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