[From nobody Thu Sep 25 12:26:44 2003 Path: news.nottingham.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Carl Ebrey <carl.ebrey@SPAMTRAYnottingham.ac.uk> Newsgroups: nott.ads.computer Subject: Re: FS: Dual Athlon 1800+ Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:22:52 +0100 Organization: The University of Nottingham (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/) Lines: 43 Message-ID: <bkp6tt$dtt$1@oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> References: <bjhrvh$8g1$1@oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> <3F5C7FA9.30707@nottingham.ac.uk> <bji166$c1b$1@oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> <bji2c1$d02$1@oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pccik.is.nottingham.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk 1064312573 14269 128.243.217.24 (23 Sep 2003 10:22:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nottingham.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Sep 2003 10:22:53 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <bji2c1$d02$1@oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Xref: news.nottingham.ac.uk nott.ads.computer:379 Carl Ebrey wrote: > Carl Ebrey wrote: > >> >> I've put 2 separate cards in there and neither have worked. The fans >> spin up but there's no sign of life on boot. Also, when there's a PCI >> card in but no AGP card the machine boots fine on first boot but then >> during subsequent reboots it gives a "graphics card not found" beep >> sequence (although it still boots and works fine with the PCI card). >> This is why I think it needs a new mobo if you want to use an AGP card :) > > > As naughty as it is to follow up to my own post I thought I should add > that Scan are doing an MSI K7D motherboard for £155 inc VAT which should > fit in this machine rather well. So that would mean a fully working SMP > machine with SCSI for £661.75 (if you add Scan's delivery charge). Not > bad, not bad at all... > Apologies for following up to my own post twice running, but given that I haven't yet sold the machine I thought I'd draw the attention of those who might have missed the advert the first time around. Also, if someone wanted the machine but with a new motherboard in (for gaming etc) I would be happy to fit a new motherboard at cost. So, the spec again: Dual Athlon 1800+MP 512MB DDR (PC2100) RAM 60GB IDE HDD 9GB (IIRC) SCSI HDD 16x10x40 SCSI CDRW IDE DVD ROM 4.1 surround sound card Asking for £500 + cost of new motherboard (if you decide to have one). If you think that's too expensive, make me an offer :) Cheers, Carl ]