OT : UKRM.co.uk server woes Pt II

Arse II - This time its WAR

Another smeggin motherboard goes titsup.com

At least this one didn't bother with any weeny "memory errors" for
months and months.

Oh no. Dead. Unbootable. Parrot sketch.

Replacement on its way, ETA saturday, normal service should be resumed
by saturday evening. Apologies to ukrm.co.uk users.

Anyone want a couple of motherboards that need various caps replacing
but are perfect otherwise? Abit BP6 dual pro + 2 x celeron 533s + the
cap kit to fix it - £50, Epox 8RDA needing cap kit - £0.

 

frag wrote

Do you want a pizza box? I have a perfectly good one which could be
donated for ukrm's use. Course it only runs unix.

 

I tried the UKRM patent "Bung it inna freezer for 2 hours" technique on my
last dead drive, and actually resurrected it for long enough to get
everything off it.

Course, that kinda depends on you having *another* 300Gb of space lying
around...

 

I think 50£ is way to much

you can get this

Intel Pentium III 600MHz CPU x 2
512Mb Ram
4.3Gb SCSI Hard Drive
CD-Rom Drive
Floppy Drive
Onboard Sound, LAN & SCSI
Desktop Case

£65 inc courier delivery

Its for sale in uk.adverts.comp if your interested

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Simian scribbled:

It is a complete PITA that the only thing with enough space to store
all the stuff you've gathered on your HDDs is another HDD.

Which you'd much rather use for even more stuff.

I mean, dual layer DVDs, a piddling ~9GB. What use is *that*???

 

BORG scribbled:

So thats a firm offer then?

Anyway, it was a price off the top of my head. If no one wants it for
whatever its for the bin (the mobo, the chips may have their heads
ground off and used as bling

I've already got a slow test machine with next to no storage space ta.

4.3Gb? Bits? Thats like 400MBytes! Win XP couldn't even fit on that!
And even at 4.3GB, bung XP, Office and a few other things on and its
full.

 

Funny bit I have never had any problems with Maxtor. The only one that
ever went bad was replaced for free and that was really good of them as
I had got the disk second hand.

I do hope sir has a backup.

 

So she didn't TIU... never mind.

 

Well, if you will insist on using bloatware.

 

tallbloke scribbled:

And the linux server (dead) has 3 x as much storage as anything else.

So to you!

 

Wow, you're quite tolerant. By that point I would have removed the equipment
(or at least key components) and told her to stick it up her fucking arse.

You could also consider a phone call to C&E to see if she claimed the VAT
back on the invoice. I'll give you serious odds that she did.

 

Had quite a run of maxtor drives come back at work. Seem to have
tailed off now though. That could be because they're ok now, or we've
stopped using them.

 

I must have been lucky. I didn't even know of this phenomenon.

Oh no tape or second drive. At least drives seem to be getting cheaper
lately.

 

It used to be a common problem with lots of drives in the bad old days,
caused by the grease on the bearings going hard when the drive cooled
down, stopping the platters from spinning. The standard fix was to take
the drive out, grasp it firmly then flick your wrist. The platters'
inertia would break the grease seal & it would work fine when hooked up
again.

This used to be a standard Monday morning routine for me when I worked
on support at a large BT site.

 

Thats a typo by the seller I would think, and you can add your own
HDDs to it

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That was in the 80s, I thought this was a reference to a newer problem.
I can remember the dreaded sticky grease too.

 

Rope wrote

That is not just grease. Conventional paper filled electrolytic
capacitors of the type used to calm power supplies and stuff can work
fine as capacitors for 30 years, until the day the power goes off and
then they become resistors.

 

Yeah - having just successfully repaired a motherboard, sounds good

email me offlist and I can get them picked up

 

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