[Chester LUG] Old desktop needed

[Paul Williams]

Maybe you're right.  Maybe I'm being too lazy and it's about time I learned that sort of thing anyway.

If it's still up for grabs, I'll give it awhirl.

Ta Thomas.


Paul

From: mrcrilly at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:00:43 +0100
To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] Old desktop needed

Research it. Haynes, the people who do manuals for cars and bikes, also do a manual for computers. Buy a copy of it and learn :-) 

- MTC
On 7 Aug 2012, at 21:48, Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:





Thanks, but my skill with hardware is limited to fitting an IDE drive (I still haven't got both my 500GB SATA drives to be recognised by my computer) and RAM.

I wouldn't know what to do with a motherboard.

Cheers


Paul

> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 19:03:04 +0100
> From: thomas at thomasprophett.co.uk
> To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] Old desktop needed
> 
> Hi Paul
> 
> I don't have any spare full systems.
> 
> But I do have a motherboard with an Athlon64 3000+ & 512MB of ram if
> that is any use to you? I'm quite sure the motherboard supports PCI &
> has an AGP.
> 
> ~ Thomas.
> 
> On 6 August 2012 22:17, Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> > The kids' old Dell desktop has died a death.
> >
> > Has anyone got an old tower they want rid of that can do the same job?  I'm
> > hoping I can salvage stuff from their old one.  It currently has a few IDE
> > hard discs, a couple of gigs of DDR1 RAM and an old 256MB PCI (not E) nvidia
> > card.  It was running Ubuntu 10.10 and was used for films, tux paint and
> > Angry Birds (under wine).  It has monitor, keyboard and mouse, just needs a
> > new tower.
> >
> > I had hoped that an old eeepc or my wife's old laptop might do the job, but
> > one isn't up to it and the other has problems booting.
> >
> > Can anyone help?  I can't afford to spend much (if anything), but might be
> > able to spring to a few beers.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Paul
> >
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