Peet@Mandrake Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 MSI K7T T2 Amd atlon 1000 256mb Riva nvidia 32mb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chuck Posted September 17, 2003 Report Share Posted September 17, 2003 Server (Dell OptiPlex GX1) -- PII 400 256MB pc100 60GB Maxtor hdd onboard sound disabled onboard USB disabled removed CD-ROM and floppy onboard NIC headless, no k/m BIOS password protected locked with Master padlock (my wife still looks at me in a funny way) Mandrake 9.1 Mine (homemade) -- AthlonXP 2000+ Gigabyte GA-7VAX mobo ASUS GF4 ti-4200 v.9280 8xAGP 128MB DDR video card 40 GB Maxtor hdd 512MB DDR333 48x24x48 LG burner 16x LG DVD-rom 17" Dell M780 monitor cheap (and godawful loud) 350 watt p/s onboard NIC onboard sound (going through Pioneer receiver) Mandrake 9.1 Wife dual-boots with W2K and RedHat 9. Home LAN protected by shiny, new OpenBSD 3.3 firewall (P133, 32MB, 1.5GB hdd). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamCat Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 My primary Linux box is at home. I have Mandrake running at work but until I can get my design software ( http://www.vero-software.com ) running at a decent speed (ie; as fast or faster than on the Win2K partition) in VMware or running in Wine I can not stay in Mandrake. Home; PIII/866 128 MB RAM 20GB Western Digital 32 MB Matrox Millenium Intel NIC CDR, USB and all that jazz. Some crappy old 14" monitor for which I paid $10. ;) Work; PIV/1.4 GHz 640 MB RAM 40 GB Disk Sound/nic on board USB ports all over the bloody thing. hehe CD-RW Nvidia GeForce2 :( And my pride and joy: A Spaceball! Labtec owned it when I bought mine. I have no idea who is making it now. http://www.cwonline.com/store/view_product...sp?Product=1185 It's a great desktop PC and would make any admin assistant happy. However it runs my design software like crap. Especially that god-forsaken Nvidia card. :x I suppose Nvidia is ok for games as long as you stay away from the GeForce2. :roll: I'm dying for a 3DLabs Wildcat adapter. 8) http://www.3dlabs.com/whatsnew/pressreleas...07-09-linux.htm But I digress. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madpuppy Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 athlon 2200xp MSI KT3 ultra2 512megs ram MSI geforce 3 ti200 64 meg Seagate barracuda 120 gig HD audigy platinum sound card toshiba dvd rom (sd-1212) HP 9510i cd burner internal Zip drive thas about it for the internals, my extra stuff includes and is working perfectly: Agfa Snapscan touch scanner wacom graphire usb HP 920c usb printer HP laserjet IIIp (found in garbage and was a 30.00 fix) belkin USB station Fuji Finepix 3800 usb (autodetects perfectly when turned on) everything works great, very happy with the direction Mandrake is going distro wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fubar::chi Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 fubar made with fubar pride, i present to you, the innards of Samwise: El cheapo Viewmate Monitor Logitech Keyboard Logitech wireless Mouse El cheapo (read crappy) ECS K7S5A HP Deskjet 5550 Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti-4200 128 MB Some case from newegg El cheapo fan (came w/ case) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ ATI TV wonder ve TDK veloCD 121032A El cheapo 12X dvd drive 19 GB WD hard drive (came w/ old compaq but doesn't work anymore, I hope someday to get some really important data off of here) 19 GB Maxtor HD no floppy drive yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted September 21, 2003 Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 thas about it for the internals, my extra stuff includes and is working perfectly: Agfa Snapscan touch scanner wacom graphire usb HP 920c usb printer HP laserjet IIIp (found in garbage and was a 30.00 fix) belkin USB station Fuji Finepix 3800 usb (autodetects perfectly when turned on) Those HP laserjet IIIs are built like tanks. They just keep going, and going, and going... :wink: I have one too. I was wondering what kind of print quality you get on yours. My windows apps print fine but my linux apps don't (esp. Star Office). I was thinking about getting a postscript card to improve the print quality. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madpuppy Posted September 21, 2003 Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 Those HP laserjet IIIs are built like tanks. They just keep going, and going, and going... :wink: I have one too. I was wondering what kind of print quality you get on yours. My windows apps print fine but my linux apps don't (esp. Star Office). I was thinking about getting a postscript card to improve the print quality. Glitz. I Never had a problem printing with my Laserjet IIIp, I did go and max out the memory for it, (I think that 4 megs is max) the print quality is as good in Linux as it is in Windows for me. also, as an extra point, I also about 6 mos later found an old Laserjet II, with the Letter tray in the garbage, the printer was destroyed, BUT! the letter tray was perfect, so now I have the letter tray as well on my IIIp. OH, and just for the record, I Drive a Garbage Truck, You wouldn't believe what people throw out! I found a HP Pavilion 400 celeron system that all it needed was a HD, a perfect 15 in monitor, and cables miles and miles of cables, printer, usb, monitor, s-video, rca jacks. it is unbelievable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted September 21, 2003 Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 mobo: Soyo K7v Dragon, used, mostly stable. A friend has a new one that's very stable. On board sound and eth (on board eth is dead, that's why I got it free) AMD Athlon Thuynderbird 1.2ghz 256mb generic DDR2100 ram Western Digital 'caviare' 14GB hard drive. old and soon to be replaced. external 56k modem (serial) LG 48x CDrom generic floppy nVidia GeForce4 128mb w/ TV out (I don't use the TV out) generic keyboard and mouse Wacom Graphire2 tablet for design work. Linksys eth card, my box is set up as the gateway for the rest of my house so it's conected to the WAN port on a WiFi router. I'm actaly typing this on my sharp zaurus (linux PDA) over WiFi. And of course, the zauru connects via USB cradle whitch acts as a USB networking device. The only thing I still want to do is set up an r-sync or something similar between a directory on the desktop ond the one on theZ HP psc 1210 multifunction I think that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 Thanks madpuppy, I guess I should try upgrading the memory. I only have 1MB in mine. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarissi Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 Madpuppy, you must be in Scrounger Heaven! This is my first post to this board. Interesting variety of hardware listed here. Currently, I have only one computer: Home built, of course. Specs: Mobo: ASRock K7VT2 Socket A (made by Asus Group) * CPU: Athlon XP1700+ OEM (newer core) * HS/fan: Volcano 7 * PSU: 500+ watt (forgot make, but was cheap enough) * Nic: DLink DFE-530TX+ 10/100 Video: ATI XPert 2000 Pro AGP * CDRW: Cyberdrive 16x12x40 * RAM: 1 GB PC133 SDRAM KB: M$ internet (not natural) Mouse: Logitech Cordless Mouseman Optical (very nice mouse) * Sound: Creative SB PCI 128 * Speakers: Midiland 3 piece w/powered subwoofer HDDs: 2 x WD 60 GB *, 1 x Maxtor 61 GB Monitor: Generic Analog 15 inch TFT (that's right: generic analog) * Inkjet: HP Deskjet 3820 connected via USB DMP: Panasonic KX-P1123 via parallel port * Case: Supercase 12 bay full tower * OSes: Win98se and Mandrake Linux Powerpack Edition 9.1 Note: * = purchased via eBay. The rest was bought locally or via the internet, though not eBay. I have one more Maxtor 61 GB hdd and a Benq CDROM sitting in temporary exile. Had to do this, as this made by Asus Group mobo does not get along with the Promise Ultra100 controller (at least in addtion to the onboard ATA133). Mandrake install would swap the onboard and PCI controllers for the install, then they would be swapped back to normal order for boot. Of course, everything was on the Wrong partitions, as a result. :x I'll be doing a new post for some advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lagrosse Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 gawds, look at all the Ghz flying around here!! Allmost ashamed to post mine, BUT Packard Bell Multimedia 601 Pentium MMX 233 Mhz (underclocked to 200) Original Crystal Sound on the paddle card (still not working) iOriginal 3.2 Gig HDD Seagate (for Win bkup, still use some Office97 apps for a project) added 64Meg of RAM {Total 96Megs} added 8 Gig HDD Seagate {don't ask about the plumbers tape} added LInkSys Etherfast 10/100 NIC replacedUSR 56K/V90 ISA Modem Dual booted with Mandy8.1/ Win98SE and to madpuppy I used to work in a Landfill I know what you mean!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest n3mo Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Manufacturer info Processor: Intel Pentium M 1500 MHz RAM: 512 MB HDD: 60 GB Video: ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Screen: 15" TFT (1400x1050) Wireless network card: Belkin F5D6020 (integrated Intel wireless card doesn't have Linux drivers) OS: Windows XP Professional/Mandrake 9.2 Known problems: - PCMCIA must be restarted manually after boot - IRQ shortage - sound was initially muted - almost nonexistent power management (working on it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_chemyst Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 (edited) Just got a new machine a month ago. Still need to get the modem and USB floppy working. Dual boot with Win XP Pro/Mandrake 9.2 . 30GB Win XP, 8 GB MDK 9.2, 2GB shared Fat32 drive/partition. Gateway M305X(CRV) laptop(same as M305XL, but with Celeron not P4) Processor: Intel m-Celeron 2.2 GHz 40 GB HDD CDRW/DVD combo (haven't burned any discs yet) Broadcom v.92 modem w/ Intel 82801DB chipset Intel graphics chip Intel AC'97 sound chip 2 USB 2.0 ports 6 in 1 memory card reader PCMCIA slot, type II/III 15" LCD display 1078X768 Centronics parallel port (haven't plugged in a printer yet) vga output Synaptics touchpad Sony USB floppy Plan to get a PCMCIA Firewaire card Plan to get a PCMCIA 802.11g wifi card Printer Epson Stylus Photo/700 Considering I'm new to Linux, the Mandrake install was relatively painless. But there are still a few things to clean up. I don't do serious gaming. Mostly just surf and do home office/small biz stuff. I like to watch the stock market, too. (what little is left there!-) I program mainframes for a living, if you call this living! Did a project using Xenix about 15-20 years ago. (before GUI) Can't believe vi is still 'viable'! Regards, Al Edited November 8, 2003 by al_chemyst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DStar Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 (edited) My rig: Five year old, dirt cheap Enlight case with Antec TP 430W PSU and a 120mm fan added to side panel and baybus Epox 8RDA+ NForce2 chipset (old, pre-400MHz FSB version :( ) Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2.2 GHz (183x12) cooled by SLK-800+Smartfan II with manual speed control 512MB RAM (2x256MB TwinMOS-Winbond) at aggressive timings Radeon 9700 Pro (Connect3D) Audigy2 (plain, retail) 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax9 (8MB Cache), 7200 RPM 120GB WD "JB" 8MB Cache, 7200 RPM Lite-On 52X/24X/52X Stuff outside the box: 19" Sony 420GS, Key Tronic el-cheapo keyboard, Logitech MX700 mouse, Logitech Z-560 Speakers, Logitech SF-3D joystick Getting a 19" LCD next month My Sony CRT is almost 5 years old and it's getting blurry and sometimes the image is all warped and I have to turn off and then turn on the monitor to fix it. I'm keeping the rest of the setup until next fall when I'm planning to build an Athlon64 SFF rig. Edited November 8, 2003 by DStar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted November 9, 2003 Report Share Posted November 9, 2003 Built this one myself: P4 2.66 Ghz 512DDR Mem NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 128MB 1st H/D - Seagate 7200 rpm (Windows and BeOS) 2nd H/D - Maxtor 7200 rpm (Mandrake 9.0) 17" Viewmaster Flat screen panel LCD monitor Canon i405 Printer LG CD/RW: 16x-10x-40x Known Issue: On board sound doesn't work. That's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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