On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/8/2013 8:27 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Sat, 7 Dec 2013, John R Pierce wrote: >> >>>> geez, its a 10 year old pentium-4, and not even a late p4, a middle aged >>>> 32bit-only one.... put it out of its misery, its been living on >>>> borrowed time for the last 5 years. >> You mean since it was two? > > i find most computer electronics have a half life of about 5 years. > after 5 years, they get increasingly flakey. your motherboard is a 10 > year old system, hence my 'borrowed time for 5 years' statement. You mean it was rotting just sitting on a shelf? That is assuming mine was one of the first ones made. > the 865G chipset on that motherboard was new in 2003, and the Pentium-4 > "northwood" CPU (I think thats what you have) were obsoleted by 2004 > (processors started coming in socket 775 rather than 478 circa summer > 2004). > > that D865GBF motherboard was new in April 2003, and the final > specification update was November 2004, although they probably did sell > it for another year or so before it was withdrawn. It was taken off > support in 2007, so if you got it 7 years ago (2006?), it was already > nearing its end-of-support-life. "The warranty wore out." -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods