[ubuntu-za] Stupid me, fried motherboard testing ancient and most venerable linux

[Hans Matter]

Thanks

Where are you situated??

I may be able to help??

Regards  -  Hans Matter
Parow

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Robert Lewis" <ethnopunk at telkomsa.net>
To: "Ubuntu South African Local Community" <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:41 PM
Subject: [ubuntu-za] Stupid me,fried motherboard testing ancient and most 
venerable linux


> Stupidity,
>
> Not content with letting a Windows 95 setup be, and thinking I could do
> a lot better by putting a minimal install of Ubuntu and dropping in
> IceWM or LXDE, I have now fried the motherboard.
>
> It was all working fine. I put in an ethercard and booted up but was
> interrupted. Then when I tried to do the install again, damn machine
> insisted on using etherboot. could not get out of the loop, and would
> probably have to flash to the rom since old bios and one thing lead to
> another. There I was hauling out the motherboard, cheking manufacturer
> details, the whole caboodle, when  I realise I  need to verify  from the
> system bios,  /I plugged in the board, which was not grounded and it
> shorted by connecting with the metal casing.
>
> /Bang goes the project. Now I have to explain to the person whose
> computer it is, and who lives in Gugs, that they will never see their
> Windows 95 on the 188 mhz P11 with 49mb memory again, because the board
> is dead, green light but not even a beep when memory out. RIP VX Pro
> Ultra DMA 30
>
> It will cost about R350 to buy a second hand machine and some air
> freshener to clear the fumes from the short.
>
> Totally broke, so I am appealing to Ubuntu Loco. Anybody have a spare
> machine, or working socket 7 board they can part with, Y2k is also fine.
>
> Thanks
>
> David Lewis.
>
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