My desktop computer has now been rebuilt! It is now going to be my mythTV server, and hopefully evolve into a ‘living room’ unit. The machine is already like Trigger’s Broom (people who aren’t fans of Only Fools and Horse should be ashamed, and can read up here). To the best of my recollection, it has had:
- 2 Motherboards
- 5 different sticks of RAM
- 3 Graphics Cards
- 2 Cases
- 6 Hard Drives
- 9 operating systems (including a phase where I was triple-booting for some reason)
- 5 Optical Drives (1 CD-ROM, 2 CD-RW, 1 DVD-ROM, 1 DVD-RW)
In fact, I think the only 2 original components are the floppy drive and the sound card! I’m not sure how long the current setup will last, as when I was rebuilding, I pulled the ground wire out of the connector for the power switch (from the front of the case to the motherboard). As a result, I now have to result to hotwiring the thing by holding the wire inside the connector and simultaneously pushing the power button to get it to boot!
All Fun & Games!
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