New home for Hell

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:33 am

I'm fishing for computer parts.

Anything, memory, motherboard, cases, etc. I want to move Hell to a dedicated box and don't have the cash to pick up a computer. Willing to trade, but I don't have much worth trading right now, since we got rid of all our worthless junk right before the move (which included enough computer parts to have made this request unnecessary).

So, does anybody have any old computer parts they're not using and are not likely to ever use that they're willing to donate to the cause?

RUDEBOY! · Post by **RUDEBOY!** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:14 am

I had a load of old computer crap but unfortunately, it was all destroyed in an unfortunate flood.

n54 · Post by **n54** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:50 am

I have a small amount of really old crappy stuff but since I'm half a world away... (it'll be cheaper for you to buy new than pay postage for my stuff, not kidding)

maybe there's some companies around you you can ask? they usually throw away lots of pretty good stuff

eggcozy · Post by **eggcozy** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:55 am

I'll donate one part ... let me know what you need.

or maybe .. a few of us could pitch in for a cheap ebay box like this
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 51971&rd=1

all for those fine settings that you use ;-)

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:17 am

eggcozy wrote:I'll donate one part ... let me know what you need.

or maybe .. a few of us could pitch in for a cheap ebay box like this
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 51971&rd=1

all for those fine settings that you use

Geez. That thing's better than the computer I'm using right now. Heh. I need the whole thing, sans keyboard, mouse, and monitor. (I have extras of those when I need them, except keyboard, but since I intend to run it headless and administer it with ssh, there won't be a problem). So, just a box with hard drive, mobo, memory, processor. Doesn't need a graphics card, I have a spare. It's an old TNT PCI card, but like I said, headless, just needs a vid card so the BIOS will boot. I don't know if I have any LAN cards left, but I packrat those, so I *should* have one somewhere. I'll have to look. Doesn't need a CD-ROM either, I have two of those, and after I get it setup I'd take out the CD-ROM anyway and stick it back in my main box.

I can see fit to make more use out of the box if you guys were going to do this, you know, shell accounts for people and so forth. We could also put a breakfast website on it, for one. Numerous possibilities.

So, a shortlist of what's needed:

Case + power supply
Motherboard
processor (heatsink and fan, goes without saying)
RAM
hard drive (4GB minimum)
LAN card (possibly, probably, need to check)

And, what you guys get out of it is more breakfast servers. It'll already have the two I've got going on it, which is a straight Champions clone and a Team server. I'll also make the in-cam server from another thread. After this is done, if it gets done, we can start a thread talking about what other breakfast servers you guys want to see.

Post by **Tank Program** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:41 am

You generally need a keyboard to POST bios.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:58 am

Tank Program wrote:You generally need a keyboard to POST bios.

Eh? Obviously I'd need to plugin my keyboard and mouse to install and configure the OS and BIOS and stuff, but after that, unplug all of it and ssh into the box.

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:52 am

Tank Program wrote:You generally need a keyboard to POST bios.

Also, in the BIOS, you can disable the check for the keyboard on boot.

-ph

Yes, you need a keyboard for THAT, but not after!

Post by **Tank Program** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:24 pm

Ok, I guess it's just all the random bioses I've encountered then...