Wanted: simple silicon life-form for adoption

[torquill]

Anyone got a basic PC setup hanging around? Nothing fancy, just capable of running Office, a browser, some light Java, that sort of thing. No need for peripherals.

One of the computers in the household decided that its mission in life was to kill all power supplies and release their magic smoke. Returning it to a happy docile system would cost more money than it's worth, and we don't have much. Dell's $300 new units are not within the budget.

Any leads are welcome.

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[doktor-weasel.livejournal.com]

What parts are needed? I upgraded last year and still have the old motherboard and cpu. Joey has it's old RAM though.

Which machine was it that died anyway?

[luna-torquill.livejournal.com]

It was actually Greg's housemate's machine; it would need a motherboard, CPU, ram to fit the board, and a new power supply. It was a GQ machine (Great Quality! meh.)

It turns out that someone from lily had an old 1U rack-mount P4 hanging around; we're getting that up and running, though I'm not sure we're going to be able to coax Windows to use the RAID controller for hard drives. It has one open IDE slot, which we're using for now; finding a RAID driver can wait for a bit.

Sucker's LOUD, though.