Greetings all;
I have, over the last few days while resuscitating my mills computer, seems
that Antec psu's don't like below freezing temps & it froze to death,
permanently. Either that, or my preferred explanation is that Antec psu's
have a built in timer that kills them 10 days after the warranty runs out.
That is the 3rd one in 2 years that has done almost exactly that. So, having
the shell & psu out of an old 66mhz p1 machine, that 200 watt psu got moved
to my machine, leaving the shell as just a box with a 4Gb drive & a floppy in
it. Raw material.
Anyway, while working on it, I had it hooked up to a 22" samsung hdtv, but
the tnt card was making noisy, streaky video. Taking local inventory I came
across a x-1650 radeon that I had bought for this machine, but it didn't like
the AGP socket ASUS supply's & refused to even output any video during post
when it was in this box.
So I though, WTH, this is more card than emc needs, but as it was just
sitting in the box, why not. Mind you this is a card with a drives female
power socket on it, along with a pretty decent cooling fan. needs more
power than the boards traces can supply. Plugged it in & a session with
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and emc was running on a 1920x1050 screen!
Nice and warm today (62F) so I took it back to the shop & plugged in the old
17" samsung, which is about as big as I have room to go in that cubby-hole.
No video, even during post but it acted like it was booting normally, several
times from a power down. I hauled the 22" out there and made room enough on
the tool shelf so that its video cable could each.
Worked so good I double checked the measurements, but like the carpenter who
cut the board off twice and it was still too short, no way.
Hooked the old crt's cable back up after eyeballing it for bent pins. None
of those. Fired it up, worked, without a reconfigure, and its been working 4
more power ups since?
snilmerg? Murphy proving he exists? DamnifIknow.
That screen is almost too sharp for that old crt, but emc sure looks great on
it now. Sweet even. :-)
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened
of the old ones.
--John Cage
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