[Herefordshire] Christmas bash

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

I asked how he set it on fire?

As for the mobo, bad luck.  I flashed my new Abit mobo last week, wasn't
too happy about doing it as it wasn't the cheapist, luckily I have never
had one go belly up so far, the worst one was when I flashed a
motherboard, and the default was to boot from the hdd and then the
floppy for some reason, and as the partition on the hdd was buggered I
got an error, thought I had mucked it up good and proper until I
realised (smile).

I am not sure whether backup flash technology is still used?  It was
quite popular a few years ago, where there was a secondary flash on the
mobo in case primary got bad, but not sure.

A friend of mine restored his by replacing flash chips at the point at
when the flash was going to occur with the bad flash chips, and it
seemed to get it back up.

Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
Robbins
Sent: 18 December 2004 18:31
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Christmas bash

Sorry, must have missed your email earlier this week.

Box was recalling an incident when he actually managed to set his
computer on fire !!. Made me feel not so bad about wrecking the BIOS
inadvertently on my new motherboard ..... ;-)

Julian

Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So spill the beans - what did he do then? 
> 
> I missed that, as being the other end of the table!
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Julian 
> Robbins
> Sent: 11 December 2004 00:04
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Christmas bash
> 
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:42:40 -0000
> "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>> 
>>My Christmas project is to see what I can do with a couple of pieces 
>>of hardware (namely a cheap NAS product I purchased off Ebay that runs
> 
> 
>>on Linux called the Buffalo Linkstation, and has lousy security so it 
>>is easy to get in as root, and my brand new 64-bit AMD machine (I want
> 
> 
>>to see if I can run a specific 64bit distro on it)).
> 
> 
> Nice to meet you .
> 
> i really enjoyed the bash tonight - especially hearing Box's 
> recollection of when he set his pc on fire !!!!!
> 
> You could always try the 64 bit version of ubuntu. i was tempted, when

> i went motherboard shopping the other day ... ;-)
> 
> 
> Julian
> 
>> 
>>Anyway thanks all,
>>Andrew.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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