If the mud is dried...a first step might be a small tough
bristle brush and maybe a vacuum cleaner, and then
the alcohol and q-tips...just a thought.
Bambi
Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
> Mud on your motherboard?!?!?! Holy Schmidt!@
>
> I suggest you buy some isopropol alcohol and q-tips
> and maybe some really soft rags and get that mud off
> of that board. Simple dust can cause heat build up
> and electrical disturbances on a motherboard which
> translate to random locks, crashes, corrupted data and
> so on.
>
> Unplug the board from all electrical input, pull all
> of the peripherals off (i'd take everything off, cpu,
> ram, all of it.) And wipe it down gently with a
> slightly dampened with that alcohol rag/q-tip until it
> is all clean. You will probably see a bit of an
> improvement in your overall performance and stability.
> You will definately increase the life expectancy of
> your computer.
>
> It is my experience that kde seems a bit slow when
> coming form wandows. I've got 384 megs of ram and it
> still isn't FAST but it is stable as all hell and fast
> enough that I never get frustrated with it.
>
> Good luck!!!
>
> Dacia
>
> --- Darryl Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > John Glasscock wrote:
> > >
> > > Swap can only use the same amount of HD space as
> > you have RAM. It
> > > makes no sense to create a large swap partion
> > unless you have immenent
> > > plans to increase the amount of RAM you have in
> > your machine, which
> > > with linux is always a good thing to do.
> >
> > Ok, there seems to be as many opinions on this issue
> > as there are linux
> > users. I've heard that you should have twice the
> > amount of swap space as
> > you do ram.
> >
> > > The only problem with DiskDrake (and it is only a
> > minor quibble) is
> > > that you can't easily manipulate where you want
> > your partitions to
> > > go. You have to think and plan ahead, and then
> > set them sequentially,
> > > ideally starting with a 32 MB /boot partition at
> > the front of the
> > > disk, then your / partition, usw.
> >
> > Ok, I think I'm in good shape here. The first 32
> > cylinder (16m) is my
> > /boot partition, cylinders 33-19818 (9738m) is my /
> > partition, and the
> > the remaining cylinders, 19819-19885 are my 32m swap
> > partition.
> >
> > > Your system may be maxed out on ram, and I don't
> > think I would spend
> > > much on it.
> >
> > Nope, two of my four slots are open.
> >
> > > However, its usefulness is far from over. It
> > would make
> > > a decent print server or firewall. How big is
> > your harddrive? How
> > > fast is it?
> >
> > The hd. is a WD 10 gig, IDE, less than six months
> > old. I don't have
> > permission to few /var/log/dmesg, so I can't give
> > you the details at the
> > moment.
> >
> > > Newbies
> > > probably NEVER touch their swap anyway until they
> > have become familiar
> > > with downloading source code and doing recompiles
> > of the kernal. Once
> > > you do that, you graduate to the next level :-)
> >
> > Ok, the motivation for this endeavor was my
> > roomate's comment that "its
> > slow," refering to KDE. I thought I might speed
> > things up with more swap
> > space. I certainly have no complaints!
> >
> > My roomate is biased though, he thinks I'm wasting
> > my time with linux,
> > and this is after he spent $8k for a six month Help
> > Desk course for
> > Windoze NT/2000.
> >
> > Also, I'm very fond of this box. Last Septemeber it
> > was under 30 feet of
> > water when Floyd flooded Bound Brook, NJ. My roomate
> > literally pulled it
> > out of the mud, which still clings to the
> > motherboard. (I'm afraid to
> > clean it off, if it's not broke, don't fix it.) All
> > I did was replace
> > the HD and monitor, and voila, I had my first 586.
> >
> > > Hope this is informative, and please correct me if
> > I'm wrong.
> >
> > Every post on this list is informative, and
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Darryl Gibson
> > Linux Neophyte (tm)
> > RLU # 182668
> > This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE
> >
>
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