News from the Land of Nod

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Yup, it's a cooked BIOS. Shop took it back, under warranty, to send to the MFR for repair/replacement - the only downside is that it'll be gone a month. This, due to my ingrained geekitude addiction, ain't gonna fly.

Enter NewEgg Computers, my current source for most hardware stuffs, and the Epox 8RDA+. I'm hoping to have it by this weekend, along with the Koolance goodness.

What this means to you, my adoring public (*cough, cough*):

A) I'm gonna be relatively quiet for the, since home access is pretty limited (email only)
B) I'm gonna have hardware to sell (a freshly-fixed Epox 8K3A, and some other stuff)

I don't hate you. I will, however, be dedicating my CPU cycles, at home and work, to this. I'm the team lead, so if anyone wants to join up and become a peripheral crypto geek, shoot me an email or click the Join This Team link. (assuming, of course, I can remember what the password is. . . senility is the best form of encryption going. heh)

Comments

[ashengrace.livejournal.com]

Oh jesusgod. Fun! Nothing like a deep-fried BIOS to whet the cyber-appetite. That blows unholy goats, sorry to hear.

What hardware are you planning on dumping?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Definitely available:
*Epox 8K3A mainboard (Athlon/Socket A - KT333 chipset)
*Ricoh 7060S (SCSI CD-RW - 24/6/12x I believe)
*Handful of NICs (Netgear FA311/310's, a couple SMC's, a couple others)
*Chieftec full tower server chassis (charcoal, w/120mm blowhole exhaust - unless Trid claims it)

I may also have most of a P3 800 (slot 1) system, depending.

[ashengrace.livejournal.com]

I might be looking for some NIC's, possibly your cdrw as well.


I recently acquired a signifigant hardware upgrade at home, A Dell Poweredge 2500 server (no shit, don't ask how). Running Win2k server as I'm not interested in putting RedHat on the son of a bitch, but I'm looking for some goodies. Hub, few nics, that sort of thing.

What the story on the tower you have? And the mainboard?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

oh, there is one other mainboard, but it comes with an asterisk - a Soyo SY-7VCA (for P3 - socket 370), but the IDE headers on it are shot (i have both a single-channel ISA and dual-channel PCI ATA-100 controller to facilitate using this sucker)

mobo story: once it comes back from the mfr/shop, repaired, i'm not going to have much use for it.

case: trid has expressed interest in it (see previous thread), pending negotiations. the nics, however, are pretty much caveat-free. :-)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

you're aware that this is a SCSI CD-RW drive, right? just checkin.

i can bring it to C9 iff'n ya wants, along with that copy of S/D/H for ya.

[ashengrace.livejournal.com]

Right on. Sounds like me may be chatting in the near future bout the NIC's at least.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

booyah! just let me know (email works best)