[Bradford] Apologies and some advice please

[Mike]

Andy,

I bought a Zoostorm and had to send it back due to it being entirely 
'Doze compliant to the point of being anti-Linux. The reason I bought 
was because I had made the same assumption as you! Although it wasn't 
Amazon I bought from. Avoid.

I bought my latest box from cougar-extreme.co.uk who take the trouble to 
listen and will check components for compatibility with what you want. 
Very Linux friendly. Carriage is expensive because they insist on full 
insurance of your purchase but otherwise highly competitive. They're in 
Bulwell, Notts and I took a drive down there to meet them.

HTH.

Mike

On 18/05/14 10:12, Andy Coulson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm afraid I can't make Monday’s meeting due to pressures of work.
> Partly this is due to my PC giving up the ghost, which is where the
> advice comes in...
>
> It is not powering up and I suspect the Power supply or front on/off
> switch, but fear it's the motherboard.  Nothing happens when I apply
> power except a feint whistling noise. The front button does nothing.
> When I switch off at the rear sometimes the fans spin briefly -
> presumably from caps discharging, so power is getting into and out of
> the PSU.  The plug fuse is also ok.  Any suggestions?  Is it worth me
> ordering a Power supply?
>
> I need to solve this quickly (ie I reallly don't want to build a machine
> at the moment - software installation is fine as it can run it whilst I
> work on another machine) so I looked replacements. Amazon are doing
> Zoostorm boxes with no OS and no monitor which sounds ideal.  Has anyone
> had any experience with these? I will probably install Linux Mint.  Also
> any thoughts on AMD vs Intel for compatibility?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
> Andrew Coulson
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