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

[Ronald Cotoni]

FYI what I would do is gank the cpu memory and disk and buy a REAL cheap
board and put it into a WAY smaller/quieter case.  It is still an OK cpu
even by todays standards since it is a quad core.  It is still faster than
most new laptops today as well (even the i7 ones)

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?
>
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