[mdlug] Help diagnosing hardware problem - not solved

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Ingles, Raymond
> 
>> So... I'll be looking at getting a new MB and video card, along with
>> probably a new CPU. Should be able to keep the DDR RAM. My proposed
>> budget is around $150, ideally less. Any suggestions? It doesn't need
> to
>> be top-of-the-line in speed - what they *already* have is overkill -
> it
>> just needs to be reliable.
> 
>  Well, I replaced the guts of the computer with a Gigabyte G31M-ES2L
> motherboard, a 1.8GHz Celeron, and 1GB of RAM. Once I removed the old
> nvidia-glx package everything seemed to come up fine. My dad can play
> Peggle once more. :->
> 
>  I have the old MB, CPU, and RAM available if someone wants it.
> Apparently the AGP slot is hosed, but with a PCI video card it'd make a
> decent server. It's a Gigabyte K8NSC-939 motherboard, a 939-pin Athlon
> 64 3000+ CPU, and 1GB of DDR RAM. Free to a good home.
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                     (313) 227-2317

You might want to bring it to next month's MDLUG meeting, we're doing a
swap meet.

Raymond McLaughlin