I brought the “new to me” 1GHz AMD to the cottage last weekend, and funny enough it didn’t power up at all. My brother declared the power supply fried, and that that was the likely reason why I found it on the side of the road.<\/p>\n
Today I got around to plugging it in, forlorn that a perfectly good computer was suffering from “no power”.<\/p>\n
Go figure. I’m typing this from the PC-BSD setup.<\/p>\n
I had tried two or three outlets and three power cords. It likely isn’t circuit overload since the current circuit it’s on is also likely overloaded, and I’m using one of the same power cords.<\/p>\n
As for the screen, I had difficulty getting it work here too last week but am still holding off until I get a proper cable, since the “cottage test” doesn’t seem to have been valid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I brought the “new to me” 1GHz AMD to the cottage last weekend, and funny enough it didn’t power up at all. My brother declared the power supply fried, and that that was the likely reason why I found it on the side of the road. Today I got around to plugging it in, forlorn … <\/p>\n