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Went pricing components
Okay, I went pricing replacements parts. Ariel (the PC) works... occasionally. Sometimes it sees the HD, sometimes not. It's really bizarre. It's like there's a flake in a chip on the MB. I'm researching around places looking for the best deal/best unit/etc. Having looked at what's out there, here's what I'm looking for:
Motherboard: Slot A - AMD Athlon/Duron with 3-4 IDE chains, 3-4 DDR RAM slots (PC133 slots are nice too), sound, USB, and ethernet on board would be great, but I don't need old-style serial ports, MIDI port, or parallel port. I don't need an AMR slot. AGP 4x-8x is fine. I don't need any more than 4 PCI slots. I want the MB able to handle 1.2 GHz to 2.0+ GHZ clock speeds (my current is 1.2 GHz). My price range is around about $100.00.
Processor: Slot A - AMD Duron or Athlon - above 1.2 GHz. My price range is around about $50.
RAM: DDR at the bus rate of above motherboard, at 512 MB (Min)-1 GB (Max) RAM. Price range is around $70.
*hits the net, looking for stuff* I can't afford to buy anything yet, but that doesn't mean I should do my homework early...
In other news - my laptop died. I was sitting in bed, with Tanan, chatting with people, and then it started going wonky and is now unusuable. Tanan will take it to work tomorrow to have the pros look at it. I suspect it's something to do with the fact I dropped it on thursday on the pavement. I'm amazed it worked for two days after being dropped. Since it's down, I can't access my email until it's fixed.
So right now I'm running Jade (the G4 cube) and that's my only machine. Jade runs fine, so I can't complain. I just hate iChat. It keeps disconnecting my in the middle of AIM conversations. Revar recently cleaned up a lot of the bugs from Trebuchet for OS X and so it doesn't crash on my all the time. It still won't drop to the dock, but at least it doesn't crash now.
T'Layna asked me about the name of the PC - Ariel. Some people name their cars. I name computers. That way when I mention machine named 'BLAH' Tanan and I know exactly which machine I mean. It's interesting - we have two high-density switches in the house network, and we've got enough machines and other stuff to max them out. It's not all machines either. I normally have three, and Tanan normally has three. Tanan got a new machine recently - Arthur - a nifty new flat-panel white 'plunger' iMac running at 800 MHz G4 (the equivalent of about a 1.6 GHz Pentium III) making it the hottest machine in the house. So now Tanan has four machines, but one is old and being phased out. The switches are both full duplex and auto-sensing, so the connection rate is good anywhere on the network.
Tigris's switch: 8 port
1. Jade (G4 cube, 500 MHz - the equivalent of a 1 GHZ Pentium III)
2. Shelly (700 MHz G3 laptop - currently DEAD)
3. Ariel (1.2 GHz PC running win98 - currently DEAD)
4. Kittyvixen (network appletalk printer)
5. Vixennet (wireless network basestation)
6. Router (connection to the internet)
7. Ricky 2.0 (Redhat 7.2 box that's acting as a firewall/DHCP server/file server)
8. connection to Tanan's switch on the other side of the room
Tanan’s switch: 5 port
1. Arthur (G4 iMac, 800 Ghz – equivalent of about a 1.6 Ghz Pentium III)
2. Noodle (400 Mhz Pentium II PC)
3. Garlic (333 G3 ‘tooth’ – being phased out)
4. Nameless Cube (G4 cube, 450 Mhz – the equivalent of a 900 Mhz Pentium III)
5. connection to Tigris’s switch
The interesting part is that, when we got these two switches – we though we’d NEVER fill them up. Ha ha. Now we have to take something off the network in order to add something new. I’ve looked at mebbe getting a 16-port full duplex auto-sensing switch, but those run $75 and up. No way in hell! We’ll get by without…
Motherboard: Slot A - AMD Athlon/Duron with 3-4 IDE chains, 3-4 DDR RAM slots (PC133 slots are nice too), sound, USB, and ethernet on board would be great, but I don't need old-style serial ports, MIDI port, or parallel port. I don't need an AMR slot. AGP 4x-8x is fine. I don't need any more than 4 PCI slots. I want the MB able to handle 1.2 GHz to 2.0+ GHZ clock speeds (my current is 1.2 GHz). My price range is around about $100.00.
Processor: Slot A - AMD Duron or Athlon - above 1.2 GHz. My price range is around about $50.
RAM: DDR at the bus rate of above motherboard, at 512 MB (Min)-1 GB (Max) RAM. Price range is around $70.
*hits the net, looking for stuff* I can't afford to buy anything yet, but that doesn't mean I should do my homework early...
In other news - my laptop died. I was sitting in bed, with Tanan, chatting with people, and then it started going wonky and is now unusuable. Tanan will take it to work tomorrow to have the pros look at it. I suspect it's something to do with the fact I dropped it on thursday on the pavement. I'm amazed it worked for two days after being dropped. Since it's down, I can't access my email until it's fixed.
So right now I'm running Jade (the G4 cube) and that's my only machine. Jade runs fine, so I can't complain. I just hate iChat. It keeps disconnecting my in the middle of AIM conversations. Revar recently cleaned up a lot of the bugs from Trebuchet for OS X and so it doesn't crash on my all the time. It still won't drop to the dock, but at least it doesn't crash now.
T'Layna asked me about the name of the PC - Ariel. Some people name their cars. I name computers. That way when I mention machine named 'BLAH' Tanan and I know exactly which machine I mean. It's interesting - we have two high-density switches in the house network, and we've got enough machines and other stuff to max them out. It's not all machines either. I normally have three, and Tanan normally has three. Tanan got a new machine recently - Arthur - a nifty new flat-panel white 'plunger' iMac running at 800 MHz G4 (the equivalent of about a 1.6 GHz Pentium III) making it the hottest machine in the house. So now Tanan has four machines, but one is old and being phased out. The switches are both full duplex and auto-sensing, so the connection rate is good anywhere on the network.
Tigris's switch: 8 port
1. Jade (G4 cube, 500 MHz - the equivalent of a 1 GHZ Pentium III)
2. Shelly (700 MHz G3 laptop - currently DEAD)
3. Ariel (1.2 GHz PC running win98 - currently DEAD)
4. Kittyvixen (network appletalk printer)
5. Vixennet (wireless network basestation)
6. Router (connection to the internet)
7. Ricky 2.0 (Redhat 7.2 box that's acting as a firewall/DHCP server/file server)
8. connection to Tanan's switch on the other side of the room
Tanan’s switch: 5 port
1. Arthur (G4 iMac, 800 Ghz – equivalent of about a 1.6 Ghz Pentium III)
2. Noodle (400 Mhz Pentium II PC)
3. Garlic (333 G3 ‘tooth’ – being phased out)
4. Nameless Cube (G4 cube, 450 Mhz – the equivalent of a 900 Mhz Pentium III)
5. connection to Tigris’s switch
The interesting part is that, when we got these two switches – we though we’d NEVER fill them up. Ha ha. Now we have to take something off the network in order to add something new. I’ve looked at mebbe getting a 16-port full duplex auto-sensing switch, but those run $75 and up. No way in hell! We’ll get by without…