And you might follow these old-timers: www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bulk-Lot-of-9-Windows-Desktop-PC-Workstations-HP-Compaq-Dell-Intel-AMD-/231246144371
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 11:00 AM, David Lyon <david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com > wrote: > I've noticed quite a drop-off in Council-Cleanup PC's, around here anyway. > > Not say don't live-in-hope in finding a new friend, just that the days of > all the PC's spending time together on the nature strip breathing the fresh > air seems to have passed. It's a new generation being thrown out now. :-) > > Also, ebay and some other sites have some great specials for dual/quad > core PC's that aren't the latest tech and the machines go for $60 or so > just because they have windows-vista or something like that on them. That's > what I use (and reinstall of course). > > Like for example this: > www.ebay.com.au/itm/Hewlett-Packard-Compaq-dc7100-PN287AW-ABA-PC-Desktop-/121356833521 > > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 9:52 AM, <li...@sbt.net.au> wrote: > >> On Sat, June 7, 2014 7:58 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: >> > I'd suspect environmental issues like temp, power brown/black out, dust >> > accumulation. Lacking any more specifics I'd grep the logs for errors, >> but >> > don't have much hope. >> >> Amos, thanks >> >> fwiw, to be more precise, first couple of reboots stopped after PCI >> device/IRQ list; >> >> I then told BIOS to update the ESCD setting, now got PCI listing followed >> by "Updating ESCD...Success", but, still not going further >> >> couldn't see anything 'bad' in BIOS so finally tried 'fail safe', and, >> voila, boot OK >> >> then, set back to 'optimal', boots perfect >> >> (and, to add insult to injury, looking at cacti charts (which is what this >> machine is meant to be) I realized cacti hasn't charted any data for >> nearly 12 month... (pings to local devices, and the like)) >> >> >> I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a >> >> must wait for next council cleanup so can pick up something more modern, I >> think >> >> >> >> -- >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
