Re: hello, im kevin Folz, i volunteered for clean North's BOYD... i have a question

[Jim Dew <jdew@yggdrasil.ca>]

Well, I can't help you out here, but every year after the event a glut of
the equipment that the volunteers took home appear on the soonet.ca bbs.

Jim

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:14:07PM -0700, Kevin 'hu.T% wrote:
> hi...
> 
> i was wondering if anyone has some of those misc parts that were taken
> from the Disisembly Parts section.
> 
> at 4:00 i was able to score a free computer (that was originaly for
> sale), but... in my excitement i forgot to grab a NIC card from that
> large pile of misc cards... also....... I tried the computer at my house
> and it freezes on windows 98 Startup screen (i inserted my 1GIG HD from
> my other computer that already had everything installed)  i figure its a
> video card failure.... since also it freezes on the Quake 1's (Dos game)
> starting demo (i used a startup disk to get into command prompt)... i
> removed all excess hardware, and tried a fresh install of win98... but
> still no sucess in SafeMode or Normal....
> 
> Questions:
> 
> Does anyone have a one of those nic cards so i can use my highspeed
> internet ?
> 
> Does anyone have a semi-decent video card (2MB) from that pile that is
> better then the one in this comp. that i can have? 
> 
> Or... is something else the problem; causing Windows98 startup screen to
> freeze and lock-up
> 
> Note: The comp i just got is 166Mhz, 64 MB Ram, 1GIG HD
> 
> Video card in there is a Cyrus, but i am unable to gather any other
> information from it
> 
>  
> 
> PS: i have a comp downstairs.... but its realy slow..... the newer one i
> just got from clean north i was hoping to have in my room...
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks, and that was a really fun event, and i hope to do it next year
> and the year after.
> 
> Kevin Folz
> 
>  
> 
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