I bought a box marked "wishy washy"
for £5 at a car boot sale.
The lady selling it had lots of old manuals
and 5.25 and 3.5 floppies keyboards mice
and printed boards and boxes of old HDD
a real clear out of her late husbands workshop.

The last thing I need in my house is an old PC
but I figured the "wishy washy" bit meant colour
fault and the box looked newish. So for a fiver
it might be a bargain and it was. I got it home
connected a keyboard mouse and monitor after
looking inside 1st of course, it has an Athlon 64 bit
chip 2gb ram 2 Hitachi HDD a cd-rom no dvd ?
I have a very similair box and the only difference
I can see is the makers badge and no dvd or floppy.
My keys even work on the door I tried installing
Win XP pro 64 it told me no HDD found the same
with any Win OS so I ran the spotmau.com rescue
disk after playing around making partitions and so
on the only OS I could install was SuSE Linux 10.3
so why oh! why cant Windows see a HDD ? or
better still how can I install Win ?
Oh! the "wishy washy bit is no red but thats the video card"

Rita

Rita wrote:

> so why oh! why cant Windows see a HDD ?

Dodgy BIOS settings?

Malcolm wrote:
> Rita wrote:
>
>> so why oh! why cant Windows see a HDD ?
>
> Dodgy BIOS settings?
>  
>
ants?

one of my computers had ants eat through the rubber seal on the HD and
make a nest in the electronics and kill the HD.

Jim Margarit

Jim,

<< one of my computers had ants eat through the rubber seal on the HD and
make a nest in the electronics and kill the HD. >>

No way !??!  That is the weirdest hardware story I've heard yet.  Does this
mean that you now refrain from eating in front of the computer ?

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Jim
Before looking at your website I thought Australia or Brazil. Now I think was it really a disgruntled patient setting his new false teeth into attack mode


Roy Lambert

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:
> Jim,
>
> << one of my computers had ants eat through the rubber seal on the HD and
> make a nest in the electronics and kill the HD. >>
>
> No way !??!  That is the weirdest hardware story I've heard yet.  Does this
> mean that you now refrain from eating in front of the computer ?
>

LOL

I could probably feed a hamster for a week if I popped open my keyboard.

It was wierd. I opened up the case and there was a bunch of black dust
on the ribbon cable. I pulled the hd and set it on my desk and watched
as ants, one after the other, came out of a small hole.

Jim

Roy Lambert wrote:
> Jim
> Before looking at your website I thought Australia or Brazil. Now I think was it really a disgruntled patient setting his new false teeth into attack mode
>
>
> Roy Lambert
>
Luckily it didn't attack the server where his overdue balance is kept!

I have tried that and set them all to auto
still no joy "wishy washy" was a crack
on the graphics card found by accident
when my hand knocked the board the
pic was full of red I had set it via the monitor
control to 100% red and 40% blue and green.
That green stuff you see on printed circuit
boards is some kind of paint on top of copper,
I found a link it said scrape the green stuff and
expose the copper around the crack and bridge
the gap with a blob of solder. I got a guy down
the street todo just that and its fine.
Rita

"Malcolm" <malcolm@spam.will.bounce> wrote in message
news:7BE6CAF7-C41D-4E3A-BB7A-0961FB033B5C@news.elevatesoft.com...
> Rita wrote:
>
>> so why oh! why cant Windows see a HDD ?
>
> Dodgy BIOS settings?
>
>

Ants ! them pesky little fellas no it aint them
unless they are Pro Linus and "anti" Bill Gates.
Rita

"Jim Margarit" <mail@drmargarit.com> wrote in message
news:1889672C-44B2-4C62-A2C1-4E9F347D5212@news.elevatesoft.com...
> Malcolm wrote:
>> Rita wrote:
>>
>>> so why oh! why cant Windows see a HDD ?
>>
>> Dodgy BIOS settings?
>>
> ants?
>
> one of my computers had ants eat through the rubber seal on the HD and
> make a nest in the electronics and kill the HD.
>
> Jim Margarit

"Tim Young [Elevate Software]" <timyoung@elevatesoft.com> wrote in message
news:3D1F173E-CA2D-4B75-9FF4-7A65D469E948@news.elevatesoft.com...
>
> No way !??!  That is the weirdest hardware story I've heard yet.  Does
> this mean that you now refrain from eating in front of the computer ?
>

HeHe do u remember when puters started to be affordable by the
masses and like good little consumers we visited all them exhibitions
and bought must have things like see through keyboard covers so
u could drink coffee and eat at work
Not an ant in sight.
Rita