[Noisebridge-discuss] To hack or to punt? Trying to revive my Quad-core server.

[Ken Adler]

and to answer your other questions.... the MAC address is not printed
anywhere... so I figure out its IP address (if it even has gotten that far)
in order to remotely connect to it ....  sigh  :-(

Ken

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Ken Adler <ken.adler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Its sitting on the table at NoiseBridge now with a sign that says "Make it
> Boot, Win a 6-pack"
>
> basically... I'm not even seeing BIOS... even though the drives DVD spins
> up, the fans are whirling and the ethernet light is going blinky.
>
> Probably just going to end up striping it for parts.. but thought I would
> put out the beer-based challenge tonight :-)
>
> Ken
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> do you know that the video card is fully compatible ?
>>
>> remote access working ?
>> ping ? ssh ? ftp ? network shares ? remote desktop client (I forget
>> the generic name for this) ?
>>
>> you can get organized help either on Wed eve from linux group or Tues,
>> Friday afternoons.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Ken Adler <ken.adler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have a quad-core server
>> > (http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1014899R/1014899Rsp2.shtml  upgraded
>> to 4
>> > G RAM) that I am trying to refresh.
>> > I plugged it in and was not able to get any video .
>> > So I went out and bought a new video card and plugged that in... still
>> no
>> > video  -  tried both VGA and DVI.  I confirmed that the monitor is
>> working
>> > fine (plugged it into another PC and it worked)
>> > My question is, should I just give up now and resign myself to trashing
>> the
>> > PC?
>> > Alternatively, if I bring it into NoiseBridge (coming in for Pyclass
>> > tonight) is there some strategy for troubleshooting/ necessitating the
>> PC
>> > without access to video-out initially.
>> > Thoughts?
>> > --
>> > Ken Adler
>> > <510-290-5806>510-290-5806 (cell)
>> > Ken at adler.net
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> Ken Adler
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