[CoLoCo] Death of a Desktop

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

Dave Vanderploeg wrote:
> Last Saturday I went to plug an iPod into my desktop so I could add 
> some Christmas songs. There was a bit of a static pop and then the 
> system shutdown, unfortunately it never came back up. After some 
> testing I determined that the motherboard had died. It was an oldish 
> system, but still decent. It had 64bit processor, the MOBO was a 
> socket 754, which are apparently a little hard to come by now. Money 
> is a little too tight in December to rush out and pick up a new PC, so 
> I decided to get out an older system. My old system has an Athlon 
> 2200, with a gig of ram and 128mb PCI (not PCI-Express) video card. So 
> I installed Ubuntu, enabled the Nvidia driver and now I've got it 
> running fairly fast WITH Compiz.
>
> Imagine doing that with Vista, downgrading to system thats years old. 
> Not only were there no license problems, but I have the advanced 
> graphics that you need a cutting edge PC to use with Vista. Its not 
> fast enough for most games, but at least I have access to all of my 
> files until I can buy a new PC.
>
> Dave 
Oh, I don't think those are hard to find.  I found a replacement mobo 
for my Athlon XP 2200+, a Socket A board, pretty easily online.  You 
just need to know where to look.  I found mine at www.eaglebit.com, I 
think that's the URL.  I found the site via a Google search.

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