technical notes from the living room

[Wayne Johnson]

Gosh.  I was just being silly.  I had no idea this was still being done...by 
anyone. I am sorry to hear of your woes.  There is a lot of woe going around 
right now.  Computer related and other stuff.

Good luck.

wj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@hotpop.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: technical notes from the living room


> Wayne,
>
> That is done even with home PCs, by overclockers,
> that is actual liquid heat transfer devices to cool the
> processor.
>
> Well, I turned the computer on this morning but
> instead of joie I got grief. It will not POST (power
> on self-test) and the powersupply fan turns off
> after 5 seconds. So I am in crying for help mode.
> I emailed the sad tale to PCBuild, a fantastic
> maillist for building PCs; the subscribers are
> sure to suggest many things.
>
> I also phoned Joe Ben Clark (related to one of
> our subscribers) but, wise man, has not yet
> replied to the lamentations which I left on his
> answering machine.
>
> Mike on his knees waving a chicken over a
> dead computer
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh@shentel.net>
> To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 6:15 PM
> Subject: Re: technical notes from the living room
>
>
>> Mike.  Why don't you cool things down the "old fashioned" way?  Just tap
>> into your cold water line, in your bathroom or sink, and run a couple of
>> copper pipe coils around the CPU.  Hey. It worked for IBM and Amdahl
>> (whatever became of them?) for years.
>>
>> Rev. Bytes
>> Church of the Impoverished Network
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@hotpop.com>
>> To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 10:02 AM
>> Subject: technical notes from the living room
>>
>>
>> > the new computer i am assembling is
>> > on its back (or side) on the living room
>> > floor. Quelle joie! much nicer than working
>> > on cars.
>> >
>> > Asus motherboard, 512MB stick of RAM,
>> > AMD mobile XP-M 2400+ processor which
>> > is for laptops and can be overclocked
>> >
>> > processor's heatsink/fan issue is not resolved
>> > the processor being OED, not retail, it doesn't
>> > come with a fan.
>> >
>> > Mike the almost enabled
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>