October 21
Whoa! Its Friday again??? When would surprises in my life end??? Hehehe…I reaaaaaally like Fridays…its on this day that Im in my best! ^___^
Nwei, I have an accomplishment last night….I’ve finally revived my old PC. And when I say old, reaaally old! Its about 10yrs-old. Pretty old for a technology that matures every 3 months! Here are its specs:
Intel Celeron 400MHz
VIA-Based Motherboard with Built-in Sound (Can’t remember the brand)
Inno3D NVidia GeForce MX4000 64MB
128MB SDRAM PC-100
20GB Seagate Harddrive
Lite-On CDWriter 48/12/48
15" AOC Monitor
28.8 US Robotics External Fax/Data Modem
2.1 Surround Stereo Speakers
AT Keyboard / PS2 Mouse
It was kinda accumulating dust in the corner of our house and I took pity on it plus I dont have a PC in my room so it was kinda a win-win situation for both me and my PC. Hehehe…
Took me around 4hrs to fix the damn thing. Problems were:
1. Needs A LOT of cleaning
2. The original PCI-based Video Card’s (NVidia Riva TNT) fan isn’t working thus rendering the card useless
First of all, I totally cleaned the inside AND outside of the Case. Replaced the video card. Its a good thing I have an extra VC lying around in my "box of PC treasures". Another good thing is that the motherboard have the AGP slot so it accomodated my card. A problem came up when I tried installing the driver of the VC. Its conflicting with the resources of my LAN card which sits on the first PCI slot beside the AGP slot. I kinda remembered one article that that was the problem of older motherboards wherein the AGP slot shares resources with the first PCI slot of the board. Since, Im not in any network or whatever, I took out the LAN card aaaaannnnd VOILA! It works! I feel like Im Dexter the boy genius. Hehehehe ^__^
Its running fine now under Windows 98 SE. I was kinda looking into installing Linux on it (Ubuntu or Linspire) but both distro failed to detect the sound card so I opted for the M$ product. But at least I have a fully working multimedia PC that I can also use to access the web and work on simple office work.
This PC also had a sentimental value to it. It was the one that helped me with all of my PC requirements during my college days. Reports, thesis, design projects…you name it! That’s why seeing it working fine again made me remember those "stressful" yet productive days. It also made me smile. And I think, if computers could smile, its smiling too… ^__^
