On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:11 PM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at 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.... :-)