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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 @ 13:53 || PC fun || Work

I had six cases in the back room all in various stages of disrepair. The plan was to salvage the best two cases, build two servers, save all the spare parts using them to build how ever many computers we could. Turns out that was zero. We had 4 left over motherboards and CPUs, tons of left over hard drives, CD, DVD and floppy drives, but very little left over memory, no left over power supplies and no graphic cards. A trip to best buy to get 1 of each missing part so we could at least build one spare took care of that.

Of the two servers.. We used the best two cases, they kinda look alike.. When it was time to button them up, we found that we didn't have the side panels for one of the cases. Next weekend I'll get some fiberglass and make my own sides for it. Might make 2 sets and get rid of the sides of the other PC two. I had Shane install CentOS on them, but linux didn't like the RAID settings. We ran out of time, so I'll have to look at this again next week.

For the extra part PC... The kids couldn't find the memory I had just bought at Best Buy. I had them search the office and the van, no luck. I drove back to Best Buy, luckily it's not too far, under 5 miles, while they continued putting things together. Once back at Best Buy, I had to wait in line for customer service, I explained what happened to the same guy who helped me find the memory just an hour or so before. He checked with the cashiers, found the memory at once of the checkouts, but had to run an inventory to make sure it was the one I paid for. Took them a few minutes, which was annoying, then the manager came out, handed me the memory and apologized.

The kids finished up with the spare PC, and went to power it on to install an OS, no power... I checked and sure enough, bad power supply. At this time, it was after 6pm and we'd been in the office all day, so I called it quits for the weekend. We'll start up again next Saturday. Yesterday, I was in the office, and I picked up the bad power supply and returned it, figured better return it now, if I waited a week, Best Buy might be difficult with the return.

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