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October 20, 2002
It's alive!
Computer transplant day. One of the ancient machines (we'll call it A) around refused to start recently -- and it had a 80 GB hard drive with tons of useful files. It also had a bunch of old, stupid small hard drives, making it hard to maintain.
I had another machine I could put it in (let's call that one B), but that machine's BIOS could not support a drive that big without an upgrade. Since it also had a slightly slower processor, I made a new machine from:
1) Machine B case/power supply
2) Machine B main hard drive
3) Machine A motherboard
4) Machine A big hard drive
This was the first time I'd tried to match a Windows 2000 boot drive with a new motherboard -- after spending forever detecting new things, it actually worked.
Also, this now gives one less Windows machine, since I'm moving over to Linux as much as I can. Some more work to do (move the better sound card from A to B, etc). I am thinking of moving the CD ROM burner that had been on A to a Linux machine.
Note: If you read and enjoyed this entire post, please seek immediate help.
Posted by markj at October 20, 2002 06:21 PM
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