[Wolves] Cheap kit

[Chris Procter]

I bought one of EuuroPCs =A3269 machines, the service is decent enough =
but the
machine itself isn't great (my work bought a server from there and its =
fine
so this is probably a case of getting what you pay for more then an
intrinsic europc problem).

It took about 10 days to arrive (they had to build it apparently) and =
all
seemed well but when I installed Slackware 9.0 I found the on-board =
graphics
card isn't supported by X and I couldn't get the on board sound to work =
with
Win2000 (although I had a spare card kicking aound so I installed that
rather then bother messing around to much).

I also know of somebody who had problems with the on-board modem (under
windows, my boss spent a day trying to fix it, in the end he resorted =
to a
pci card and that fixed the problems).

I haven't tried the on board networking yet but given the above I =
wouldn't
expect too much.=20

It makes a fine machine for messing around with windows 2000 doing my =
MCSE
homework (its paid for by work, what can I say), but if you are looking =
for
a production machine for work or whatever I would look elsewhere.


chris.




-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Parkes [mailto:leep@bogus.net]
Sent: 23 May 2003 11:56
To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Wolves] Cheap kit


Thought the lug ppl may be interested in this :

http://www.clearancewarehouse.net/

Lee

--=20
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