Linux Server Machine up and running.
Motherboard: Replacement Asus A7V333 board from Asus (remember how you tested RJay’s DDR?)
CPU: Athelon 1.33G. Ordered from Newegg. (~$45)
Heatsink & Fan: Coolermaster from shelf
HDD: Trying to get a cheap low capacity disk from ebay (or elsewhere) thinking I had used the trusted 8G Maxtor disk on Srinidhi’s Win98 box. Today I had to open it to test the WiFi card (which did not get installed on that sytem anyway … even after driver install from install CD). I noticed I had the 2G WD (Courtesy: Raghu). Went around looking for the Maxtor disk and found it inside the (wound-be) Linux server machine.
Case: Sturdy ABS (unused) case.
Memory: pulled 256M from WinXP system. Iam sure Gates would have thought 256M is enough for everyone an year back. Till the pricess of 400Hz memory falls below $100 for a Gig, I guess I’ll have to run with 256M. No video editing till then!
Network: Tulip card. With the new (Asus A7N8X) mobo with two ethernet adaptors onboard, this had been shelved for a while now.
Video: ATI Rage AGP. From EBay for $10.
Monitor: For now Srinidhi’s 15″. Thinking ofgetting an KVM switch from Buy.com
Sound: SB Live pulled from Win98 machine (which has a working ISA sound card). But wait… A7V333 has onboard sound. Good! one less card.
Firewire: From shelf.
USB: Onboard
CD: Old CD/RW drive from shelf.
Keyboard & Mouse: From shelf.
OS: Looking for Mandrake 10.0 CDs.. Oops! Its at work. After putting the parts together, powered on the machine and found a perfectly working Mdk 10.0 installed in the Maxtor disk already. Whoa!
so, all I needed to do was to put the parts together and power it on. I had it all.
Also connected it thru Netgear router and I have both WinXP and Mdk10 working .. and on network. Cool! Have the machine up for few hours now and … no crashes (I suspect the heat sink is too scratcy).
But the room sounds like a rice mill though with both machines fans working extra hard. Had to get ball bearing fans soon…
