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<blockquote data-quote="Analoguesat" data-source="post: 1056920" data-attributes="member: 176362">Ive been given another old beast of a case, so I shall have to find a use for that one as well - once the innards have been removed it will make a nice wet weekend project. At the moment its coming in useful stopping my office door blowing shut when the window is open&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite13" alt=":-rofl2" title="roll on floor&nbsp; &nbsp; :-rofl2" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-rofl2" />Nothing to do with these sdr projects but at work Ive been asked to build up some none network desktops for the music dept to run Open Office &amp; various bits of low end software on. Ive rescued whats left of my stash of broken old ex network units from the server room and I spent an enjoyable if rather dusty afternoon mix &amp; matching bits of dead computer in the hope of making 5 or 6 good ones from a dozen or so partially stripped spares donors. Hard going though - I really am scraping the bottom of the barrel with these donor boxes - they are exceptionally poor to start with. (12 year old and very tired RM Ascend 2020B models if anyone wants to look them up) However Ive managed to get 3 going so far using pukka Win XP SP2 discs from the store room. This will be upgraded to SP3. They will run ok for what the music dept want them for with 2GB ram in them. (The mobos support 2*2GB but Ive got plenty of old 1GB sticks in stock doing nothing)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Analoguesat, post: 1056920, member: 176362"] Ive been given another old beast of a case, so I shall have to find a use for that one as well - once the innards have been removed it will make a nice wet weekend project. At the moment its coming in useful stopping my office door blowing shut when the window is open :-rofl2 Nothing to do with these sdr projects but at work Ive been asked to build up some none network desktops for the music dept to run Open Office & various bits of low end software on. Ive rescued whats left of my stash of broken old ex network units from the server room and I spent an enjoyable if rather dusty afternoon mix & matching bits of dead computer in the hope of making 5 or 6 good ones from a dozen or so partially stripped spares donors. Hard going though - I really am scraping the bottom of the barrel with these donor boxes - they are exceptionally poor to start with. (12 year old and very tired [B]RM Ascend 2020B[/B] models if anyone wants to look them up) However Ive managed to get 3 going so far using pukka Win XP SP2 discs from the store room. This will be upgraded to SP3. They will run ok for what the music dept want them for with 2GB ram in them. (The mobos support 2*2GB but Ive got plenty of old 1GB sticks in stock doing nothing) [/QUOTE]

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