I have a two port PCI serial card spare if you want it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2006 9:19 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: And tonight's hardware failure is...


Because I *bought* a copy of vmware workstation, and I'm going to jolly well
use it! This means that I need a GUI on the server, which, in turn, requires
nvidia drivers to run the onboard chipset. I was using vesa drivers until
the latest nvidia ones would install, but I think that they were scribbling
on low memory whenever the wind turned easterly.

TBH I also wanted a gui on this server... none of the virtualized ones
except Win2k3r2 ( sorry ) use them. I've got loads of disk space, and plans
to build up a media server, and want to play with stuff locally. The real
downside is that I've got no serial port, so I may be swapping to another
(ati based) mobo that does.

Steve

On Thu, 18 May 2006 09:03:37 +1200
Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> May I ask why your server needs nvidia drivers?
> 
> On 17/05/06, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ...the power cord. Over the last 2 months, this server has given me 
> > nothing but grief. From wrongly wired switches to memory failure to 
> > disk failure, and a three week battle with instability that was 
> > finally cured by the latest nvidia drivers, it's running out of 
> > things to throw at me.
> >
> > Obviously not quite run out completely, though (:
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
> 

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