Text 6637, 85 rader
Skriven 2006-07-26 15:15:36 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
   Kommentar till text 6634 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: Newbie
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Hey James!

Jul 26 00:27 06, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> I smartened up. <G> 

I plan to do that here too.

 JB> I found out it was one of two Dells here, *without* onboard SCSI.

Weird.  Perhaps a bootup menu?  I see that on P4 based boards these days and it
actually seems to work, amazingly enough.

 JB> I know the feeling, all too well! I tried to "fix" this internal
 JB> modem on W2K, and I fixed it so well, it doesn't show up anymore.
 JB> If you can read this, I guess I "fixed" it again.

PCI?  I have yet to see a PCI based one that is worth any bother.  I think
those were all built with Win98 in mind (ie totally useless as configurable
hardware).

 JB> I'm assuming for the time, the 4, SCSI supplied kernels weren't
 JB> passing the mustard. I'm going to go with a plane Jane
 JB> do-everything kernel, next time.

Not true.  SCSI works fine the last time I checked it is just that it isn't
always turned on in supplied kernels.  Often it is modular.

 JB> Nope... It's a floppy booted setup,

I hate those.

 JB> and if Compaq thinks it's
 JB> good where it is, *nobody* gets it otherwise.

They can keep it.

 JB> be a way to hack it, but the day's too short.)

Beats me.  I've never bothered with Compaq's but have seen a few around.  The
only 'work' I've done on one was to check a keyboard on one for a neighbour.

 JB> The AP400 series
 JB> seems to be geared to the financial job force, or someone that
 JB> has to assemble a lot of boardroom presentations.

In other words totally useless?

 JB> IIRR, there's a
 JB> vid card option, where you can run 4 heads on one PCI card,

Did it come with it?  If so and it's a Matrox that would be worth liberating
from that machine.

 JB> the looks of things. Guess they weren't expecting my type. (-;

Or anyone who knows better.

 JB> No... Internal. I'll put money on it, that the flash ROM was
 JB> scrambled. "ATI<#s>" showed some pretty bizarre output. 

Might be the Compaq itself.

 JB> If only... What're you gonna do, eh?

Scrap it?

 JB> That would make sense! <ROTF> I saw a TV add for Xeon equipped
 JB> boxes the other day, so maybe it's more a core logic than an I-O
 JB> protocol?

Nope.  They are normally IA32 but I think there might be a few IA64's later on
(p4 xeons).  That I am not too sure about though.  I hear they now have EM64T
P4 xeons but those aren't slot 2's.

 JB> If you can part it out for a profit, I have a hard time crying
 JB> over stuff.

Right.

Life is good,
Maurice

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