Agreed. I have just bought one of those Via Eden motherboards from www.linitx.com in the UK £63 for Motherboard and processor with 5.1sound/video/TVout/lan, even better it is passively cooled - NO FANS Runs KDE3 just fine (although there is a trick to get 9.0 installed)
derek On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 6:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not to pump this company twice in one sitting but you can go to > > http://www.idot.com/TheStore/Peripheral/motherboard/default_itx.asp?Cate.id >= 5 > > and pick up a 500 mhz board with onboard ethernet and video for less than > what you'll pay for the memory and video card. Plus you'll have a new bios > that will be able to handle a larger harddrive. > JMO > R > ----- > Richard L. Babcock, Owner > Tower Training > At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! > www.towertraining.net > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson > > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:20 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Min spec > > > > On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 12:38 pm, Technoslick wrote: > > > Tell us more about the specs for this older box, Anne. This the perfect > > > place to find if anyone has had any problems with older components in > > > Linux. > > > > > > > > > T > > > > OK - this is what I have gleaned so far - > > > > M'board - Mainboard Pentium MMX - driver disk is name PC100 > > CPU AMD 6x86MX 233 > > BIOS date 7/15/95 > > Current RAM is 2x16 + 2x32 Mb (96 in all) in SIMMS. > > > > Manual says Mobo 'Supports 3 banks of FP/EDO SIMM/DIMM and SDRAM DIMM > > expandable memory up to 384 Mb'. It also says that it can mix SIMMS and > > DIMMS, using SIMM banks 3-4 and the two DIMM slots (they quote equally > > loaded, but I don't know whether it is necessary, or whether it reflects > > availability of DIMMS at that time). > > > > Current video - VidelExcel S3 > > ---- > > Proposed changes - > > > > Diamond graphics card + Voodoo accelerator (I don't know whether > > this is the > > same Voodoo card that Ronald meant - it may be earlier) which > > appears to have > > chipsets labelled 3Dfx. > > > > Realtek NIC > > > > 128Mb DIMM - I presume no-one is going to recommend keeping the > > 64Mb SIMMS? > > ---- > > > > Any comments/suggestions welcomed - even if it is 'forget it' :-) > > > > Anne
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