On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:57:22 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>In fact, I think I am going to fire it up this afternoon and see if it >will run. There may be a serious reason it was discarded. I plugged it in and it booted. The good news is that the BIOS says it has 192 MB RAM and a 400 MHz CPU. Also, it booted to XP Professional, so the original owner must have upgraded the RAM and then the OS, since I know it shipped with Windows 98. The bad news is that I could not find out the size of the hard disk because I could not get either a keyboard or a mouse to work. I tried a couple USB mice and a couple PS2 mice and, while the BIOS said it recognized the PS2 mice, neither would work. Also, neither of the USB mice would work, although they lit up. I also tried two different old keyboards and a brand new USB keyboard, and neither would work. I couldn't do anything else without at least a mouse or a keyboard. Also, the CD drive seems to be stuck. The light comes on during boot. And if I press the eject button the light comes on and I hear whirring noises, but the tray does not come out. The people had small children, so it probably has the remains of a popsicle inside. I have some leftover CD drives, so maybe I will replace it if I can figure out what is wrong with the input devices. It might make a decent Linux computer if I can repair it. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
