On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:11 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote: <snip>
it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about US$237 for a new motherboard, delivered to our house. I think I will wait, until I can buy a very low end box, without a monitor, and everything will have a guarantee. I am going to fix up our backup IPCop Router/Firewall box and use that one, in the meantime. Slow, but it should work....
My backup box is an old 200MHz Pentium w/96MB. Maybe there is a local dealer or private party that has a good old one you can pick up $Cheap.
When I'm using the old backup with IPCop, I see no performance difference. Should suit your needs if only IPCop is the purpose. And maybe the seller would let you try it first.
The box we use for IPCop is a Pentium 233 MHz MMX with 64 MB of RAM.
I am now using my box, with the damaged motherboard. It will run, for a few minutes, or a few hours, and then it dies. When I looked at it, while using M$ Windows, Device Manager showed everything OK. I guess that's why when I ran the Dell Diagnostics on the box, Sunday, it got an OK. Intermittent...
Mark (mhr) really gave me a super idea last night. I will buy him a cup of Colombian Coffee or a Beer, if possible! A bare bones computer. I looked on tigerdirect.com and the thing even comes with a Celeron 2.0 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM and a 450 watt P.S. Needs a fan for the CPU, which is not included. Problem is shipping it down here (13.35 pounds according to their web site) and paying for it with a wire transfer, etc. (Their web site says they only accept Wire Transfers for International Orders). It has a PC Chips P53G v.1.0, LGA 775 motherboard, with a VIA Chipset, that I hope will work with Linux...... US$99.99. Something like that would save me a lot of time and work and I would still have our backup IPCop box ready, if I need it. I am going to try to find something like that here in Colombia, which would be a lot easier than buying from TigerDirect.com in Miami. Am in very good shape and very grateful that I was able to copy most or all of my stuff, after this problem began. Backups increase the level of relaxation.... :-)