[Chester LUG] Old desktop needed

[John]

Hi paul....ring me on 0132 752883 and i can help///////as soon as you 
can please
John

On 08/08/12 15:32, Paul Williams wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:thomas at thomasprophett.co.uk>
>     > To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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