[Tfug] NEC Motherboard

[erich]

Yeah,
      Thanks for the omniscience of hindsight. Folks have given me some
helpful
hints and helped me "cry in my beer". I've been so busy with another
project in
my workshop, that I have not had time to look too closely at this machine.
I didn't cost much, (a $70 tax-deductable donation to World Care, I
think), but
I did invest time into the machine to configure it, and it has a nice
ATI video
card. I let you know how it goes.

                                                                                         
Erich
JD Rogers wrote:

>>    Anyway I plugged it back in & fired it up, and now weird things are
>>happening. The
>>keyboard will work when it's connected to the ps2 mouse port. The mouse
>>doesn't
>>work at all. This is bad. The x-server won't come up if doesn't detect
>>mouse input.
>>    
>>
>
>I've had very similar experiences a couple times. One of my favorite
>was my college roommate who had a box that was so old that the hard
>drive had grown co-dependent on the floppy drive which no longer
>worked. At the time, I was pretty proficient with hardware and my
>roommate was far more so than I. We had checked all the usual
>suspects, like cable select, and other jumper settings. The hd would
>ONLY boot if the broken floppy was connected (connecting a new working
>floppy was not an option, it had become emotionally attached only to
>the broken one).
>
>We eventually proclaimed that the computer had outgrown its printed
>circuits and lithographically defined IC's and had somehow grown more
>sophisticated neural connections through the dust and debris of the MB
>and broken floppy drive.
>
>Since that time, I have had several additional experiences that
>corroborate this theory and as a general rule, I recommend leaving any
>dusty computer innards intact unless you like the idea of practicing
>computer-lobotomies as a means to further investigate this strange
>phenomenon.
>
>Cheers,
>JDR
>
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