Linked by Richard White on Tue 15th Mar 2005 11:21 UTC
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
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helf, rather than installing GNU/Linux, try using the DamnSmallLinux liveCD.
Great article BTW. Thanks.
Incidentally, I've been using IceWM, but after reading this article, I think it's time to try out Xfce.
Also, for those considering resurrecting older PC's, note that if you want to update the motherboard's BIOS, you'll probably need an old Windows98 installation to either create a Win98 boot disk, or else to run the BIOS diskette setup program.
You don't usually *need* to update the BIOS, but it might help when plugging in newish HD's and larger amounts of memory into the old mobos.
Also keep in-mind, if it's old enough to use a non-ATX power supply (like the older original Pentiums), those power-suppies are very hard to come by these days. If the p/s goes, the whole thing is usually a bust.
Oh yeah, and finally: don't put too much faith in hard disks older than 7 years or so. Just my experience anyhow.