[Chester LUG] Old desktop needed

[Michael Crilly]

It's plug and play these days Paul. Connecting a SATA drive to the main-board is obvious; fitting a CPU only works one way; and the manual tells you what power connectors to use :-)

You're a smart lad, so I'm sure you'll figure it out. Check out sites ifixit.com etc 

- MTC

On 8 Aug 2012, at 15:32, Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk> 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> 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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