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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: ElementCoder on November 12, 2013, 02:12:01 pm

Title: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: ElementCoder on November 12, 2013, 02:12:01 pm
My school is getting rid of old PCs so I'm taking them whenever they appear. I'll be keeping a little list (I name them after galaxy clusters) of them and I'm wondering what to put them to use for (server is not an option since I'm not allowed to leave them on 24/7 or I'll have to pay bills as well). I was thinking of maybe (once there are more) hooking them up together and make a little cluster to do Blender stuff on or something.

Pandora
(http://i.imgur.com/OKuJfKf.jpg?1)
CPU: PentiumD @ 3.00GHz fried it :P
RAM: 4x 2GB DDR2 Kingston (http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KVR667d2n5k2_4g.pdf)
GPU: nVidia 6600 (not sure which one yet)
HDD: Western Digital Caviar 80GB

Further it has a CD drive, floppy drive and room for 6 harddrives. A mindblowing collection of 4 images of the dismantling process are here: http://imgur.com/OKuJfKf&vhY0Q57#0 and http://imgur.com/jGDby9d,jH3JC37#0
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: Streetwalrus on November 12, 2013, 04:00:13 pm
Seems cool. :)
Also, dem shoes O.O
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: Keoni29 on November 12, 2013, 04:28:33 pm
MAME :D
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: Sorunome on November 12, 2013, 04:48:30 pm
You could experiment around with computer clusters! :D
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: ElementCoder on November 13, 2013, 12:01:38 am
Quote from: Streetwalker on November 12, 2013, 04:00:13 pm
Seems cool. :)
Also, dem shoes O.O
What's with them? :P

Also I took it apart and now I accidentally it and it won't turn on anymore :| When I plug it in a green light on the motherboard glows and the red light on top of the case (2nd pic 1st link) lights up as well. The power button doesn't do anything. Did I screw up connecting something wrong/not or did I break it?
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: shmibs on November 13, 2013, 12:26:49 am
clusters are the most fun =D. get yourself some openmpi!
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: ElementCoder on November 13, 2013, 12:30:02 am
The MoBo doesn't beep when taking out all the ram, does that mean it's broken?
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: Keoni29 on November 13, 2013, 03:03:36 am
Do you have the speaker wired up? Is the psu broken by chance?
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: ElementCoder on November 13, 2013, 12:08:52 pm
Since literally nothing turns on except for the two lights described above I'll try another PSU tonight and otherwise just put in some other parts. This is definitely the last time I'll be handling a CPU besides installing it when I build my own PC :P
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: ben_g on November 13, 2013, 12:36:08 pm
If you handled the sensitive components of the computer on the carpet as it appears in the image, and you didn't take any measures to reduce static electricity, then it's very lickely that it broke. Some components of a computer are extremely sensitive to static electricity, especially the CPU.
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: ElementCoder on November 13, 2013, 01:17:29 pm
I did put the sensitive parts on my desk (pretty much everything that wasn't cable or drive). I just tried a different PSU and it still won't fire so I'm fairly sure I fried the CPU when dropping it on the carpet. I'll take the mobo out of another comp and put that in.
Title: Re: New, old PCs; any ideas?
Post by: Streetwalrus on November 13, 2013, 01:29:24 pm
Quote from: ElementCoder on November 13, 2013, 12:01:38 am
Quote from: Streetwalker on November 12, 2013, 04:00:13 pm
Seems cool. :)
Also, dem shoes O.O
What's with them? :P
Just that they are epic (the brown ones). :P