-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 May 2002 10:55 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> Over all I've learned that it's almost always the first place to look > when Mandrake is not performing the way its expected to work. The > first time I tried to setup 8.2 on this machine it was a total > disaster. this time it was so painless I could scarsely believe it. > the one diference was the hardware that I was using. the only things > that didn't change were the mobo, hard drives. things that changed > were the NIC's and the RAM. I suspect that the one NIC i was using > had a lot to do with the trouble I was having with 8.1 setting up the > cable modem and one of the ram chips I took out of the machine was > bad and was making life miserable for the machine and me all the way > around. > > I'm happy to say that It and I are quite happy now. As a workstation > it's the cat's meow on all the machines I've loaded it on. I've > always been mindful though of the hardware that is in the machine. > Especially the drives its going to live on. Well ... my three-year-old PC blew up on Sunday with a loud BANG; the motherboard had gone and taken rather a lot with it. I got a loan of a Dell Optiplex GX150 to tide me over until the new machine turns up. It's one of those 'small form factor' machines with everything (NIC, graphics, sound) integrated on the motherboard (Intel 815E chipset); such machines are generally considered to be problematic, and the reason I got it was that my company had had so much trouble installing its Windows 'standard desktop' the machines were eventually quietly set aside. Mandrake 8.2 installed on it, without a single problem, in twenty minutes! I was absolutely flabbergasted. The only problem is the inbuilt video, which tends to break up rather spectacularly when driven hard; that's not Mandrakesoft's fault. (All that said, I had previous bad experiences of Dell but am very impressed with the GX150's build quality; on opening it up I've rarely seen a neater presentation, and squeezing everything into a small space is ingeniously done). Alastair PS Never mind the Wal-Mart flap; www.novatech.co.uk build machines without an OS, and there's a pretty impressive choice of components. - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE84AHLCv59vFiSU4YRAqvEAKCG3lI0MTt7Kj0z4da64sDbWtCgBgCfR7gX PYGR3dzcWJW4FNptF7lpj2c= =zjVK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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