I've noticed quite a drop-off in Council-Cleanup PC's, around here anyway. Not say don't live-in-hope in finding a new friend, just that the days of all the PC's spending time together on the nature strip breathing the fresh air seems to have passed. It's a new generation being thrown out now. :-)
Also, ebay and some other sites have some great specials for dual/quad core PC's that aren't the latest tech and the machines go for $60 or so just because they have windows-vista or something like that on them. That's what I use (and reinstall of course). Like for example this: www.ebay.com.au/itm/Hewlett-Packard-Compaq-dc7100-PN287AW-ABA-PC-Desktop-/121356833521 On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 9:52 AM, <li...@sbt.net.au> wrote: > On Sat, June 7, 2014 7:58 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: > > I'd suspect environmental issues like temp, power brown/black out, dust > > accumulation. Lacking any more specifics I'd grep the logs for errors, > but > > don't have much hope. > > Amos, thanks > > fwiw, to be more precise, first couple of reboots stopped after PCI > device/IRQ list; > > I then told BIOS to update the ESCD setting, now got PCI listing followed > by "Updating ESCD...Success", but, still not going further > > couldn't see anything 'bad' in BIOS so finally tried 'fail safe', and, > voila, boot OK > > then, set back to 'optimal', boots perfect > > (and, to add insult to injury, looking at cacti charts (which is what this > machine is meant to be) I realized cacti hasn't charted any data for > nearly 12 month... (pings to local devices, and the like)) > > >> I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a > > must wait for next council cleanup so can pick up something more modern, I > think > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
