Thread: Dead computer

Originally Posted by NickA

Well, I'm back..... If my computer had been reasonably new it might have been worth trying to fix it, but I was pretty much in need of an upgrade anyway, so it was a good excuse. now, what do these dual core things do and how do you set them up in linux????

Are you going to run a 64bit operating system now?

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Are you going to run a 64bit operating system now?

Good question.... I'm not sure there are many benefits of doing this in Linux at the moment, but Frankie will probably know more.

Have the dual core working now... I was running a 386 kernel, had to change to the generic kernel, but encountered some problems as I had to manually update the nvidia drivers (seems a bit slack of ubuntu not to update graphics drivers to support their latest kernel)

Things seem to be running much smoother than before.

^ you need to recompile your kernel, will be more efficient with all the drivers etc... very easy to do, takes about 15min to setup all the options

^I might look into it tonight.

Originally Posted by aging one

Originally Posted by momo8

Try disconnecting your PC from the power supply again and try restarting it again.

Mine has done almost the same thing 3 times in the last few months. Turns itself on. I have to unplug it for 5 minutes, plug it back in and it fires right up. But the light is off as well.

Turns itself on - No UPS?

That is usually a power surge which causes the computer to start on its own.

Originally Posted by Fabian

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

it's over 2000 baht for a gig isn't it?

I just bought a 1 gig laptop chip for 750 Baht. Ok, so it was the wrong one, but it's still cheap. You get 2 Gig packs now for next to nothing.

If it does not fit it is not cheap.

This is true, but I'm going to see if they will exchange it for the correct type.

I now have two spare Kingston 512 MB DDR (not DDR2) chips.

All you need now are two goats, two sheep, two elephants, two.... and an Ark and you can be Noah

.....and a spare XFX Geforce 6200 graphics card, an Athlon XP2600 chip that may or may not be broken.

All good stuff if anyone can be bothered to pick it up.

Originally Posted by NickA

an Athlon XP2600 chip that may or may not be broken.

I'll be having a spare one of them soon.

I'm sure CMN would want the RAM, but I don't plan to be in CM anytime soon. The graphics card is pretty low end, but if anyone is using onboard graphics then it would be a step up