asteroid
09-11-2006, 09:38 PM
I got given a 5 year old Novatech Athlon 1200 machine which was going to be binned as its intermittently faulty. (I will dig out the NOV later as its downstairs)
the socket A motherboard is quite a good Jetway (I think) board which seems to have the primary IDE controller knackered as it wont recognise this spare 10gb drive I have, and intermittently wont post.
As these socket A boards arent made any more, I have one spare which I havent tested in ages, and probably might have to get a second one from somewhere.
question, what everyones prefered (ideally free) diagnostic software to check this machine out, so once I get it rebuilt I can do some burn in tests to see its running stable.
Im keeping this machine as a test box and dont have any money to spend on it, will probably try a Vista beta on it or Linux eventually.
the socket A motherboard is quite a good Jetway (I think) board which seems to have the primary IDE controller knackered as it wont recognise this spare 10gb drive I have, and intermittently wont post.
As these socket A boards arent made any more, I have one spare which I havent tested in ages, and probably might have to get a second one from somewhere.
question, what everyones prefered (ideally free) diagnostic software to check this machine out, so once I get it rebuilt I can do some burn in tests to see its running stable.
Im keeping this machine as a test box and dont have any money to spend on it, will probably try a Vista beta on it or Linux eventually.