My Frankenputer

[Onyx]

When my other computer died and I was stuck on the craptastic laptop, I looked around my closet at the assorted computer parts I had saved, rubbed my hands together and said "aha! I shall create life!"

Motherboard, cpu and general assorted guts, power supply and case from Gateway, CD burner, sound card and DVD drive from Hewlett-Packard, IBM mousie and Emachines keyboard.

It's aaallliiiiveee! Mwaaahaaaha.

Doesn't do too badly either. The CD burner still works too. Somehow I expected it to fail, but it is fine and dandy. It'll get me by till I replace it and then my daughter will adopt Frankie.

I knew those spare parts might come in handy someday. Gawd I'm such a packrat.

[Vater Araignee]

Good job!

If I'm not careful in my computer room ...

I'll die in a sower of spare parts.

Can you say 286?

No better yet Tandy TSR80 Color Basic.

No Commodore Vic20.

[Homicidalheathen]

OMG I am not the only one with a comador in their home. OH and it works.

[Scary Guy]

I need to build myself a quad system, and a cluster... something like...

http://www.hpc.co.jp/IA-Products/P4-1P8P-O...4-8P-Open-M.jpg

but prettier

[The_Dark]

Good Job Onyx! I love it when people get past the fear and just build thier own.

[Homicidalheathen]

Yup kodos to you lady....ya got guts and brains. And your single? How can this be????

[Lilith]

Thats awsome, do you buy any chance pick up old pc from the trash????? We do al lthe tiem and have gotten some good parts, keep you eyes open as you might be able to gather enough to up grade frankie or make another comp. I allways keep my eyes peeled for new dell boxes in the trash usually people have the old comp in the box or near it or will soon be putting it out for the trash. Sometime people throw away gold and they just dont know it. In the past we have found a comp that had everything in tact but did not wrok and after some investigating the problem ened up being a dial up modem, the rest worked great and have made its way throuh our machine at one time or another. Building you own can save so much $$$$$.

[Onyx]

I need to build myself a quad system, and a cluster...  something like...

http://www.hpc.co.jp/IA-Products/P4-1P8P-O...4-8P-Open-M.jpg

but prettier

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I have no idea what that is but it looks powerful (and a little scary, hehe).

Good Job Onyx! I love it when people get past the fear and just build thier own.

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*takes bow* Thank you

Yup kodos to you lady....ya got guts and brains.  And your single?  How can this be????

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Yeah, and I'm nice too, dammit! (I know this because guys always tell me how nice I am, all the while in the process of breaking up with me). *sigh* Maybe my closet full of computer pieces has something to do with it?

Thats awsome, do you buy any chance pick up old pc from the trash?????  We do al lthe tiem and have gotten some good parts, keep you eyes open as you might be able to gather enough to up grade frankie or make another comp. I allways keep my eyes peeled for new dell boxes in the trash usually people have the old comp in the box or near it  or will soon be putting it out for the trash.  Sometime people throw away gold and they just dont know it. In the past we have found a comp that had everything in tact but did not wrok and after some investigating the problem ened up being a dial up modem, the rest worked great and have made its way throuh our machine at one time or another.  Building you own  can save so much $$$$$.

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These have all been pieces and parts I've collected over the years from dead ones that I or my family have owned. They know I like to tinker so I usually inherit these things. I really need to go through get rid of some of the stuff I have though.

Also, I have discovered in this process that you can't just drop a hard drive in it that has XP loaded. It has a hissy fit and gives some weird hardware errors on startup, then shuts down. I never did figure out how to fix that. Really bugs me cause that was a legal copy from my other computer and I should have been able to use it, but it wasn't worth the headache so I gave up. Had to use an older drive I had that had 98 already loaded.

I gather it has to do with that registration thing where you have to call when you add a new piece of hardware. I don't object that strongly to them making their money, but when you buy a legal copy and then the computer dies and you cannot reuse the hard drive with that copy without contacting Microsoft, to me that really bites.

[Lilith]

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Also, I have discovered in this process that you can't just drop a hard drive in it that has XP loaded.  It has a hissy fit and gives some weird hardware errors on startup, then shuts down.  I never did figure out how to fix that.  Really bugs me cause that was a legal copy from my other computer and I should have been able to use it, but it wasn't worth the headache so I gave up.  Had to use an older drive I had that had 98 already loaded. 

I gather it has to do with that registration thing where you have to call when you add a new piece of hardware.  I don't object that strongly to them making their money, but when you buy a legal copy and then the computer dies and you cannot reuse the hard drive with that copy without contacting Microsoft, to me that really bites.

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lol i feel ya on the whole micosoft thing

[Head Wreck]

see computer parts dont bite

good to hear you gave it a gop, and great news that you have some reward for it.

now if i could only get a few people to do similar round here