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thane:
Unfortunate about Dells Lee, since I too may be able to inherit one at some point. They also seem to be one of the most common "refurbished" types available. No big rush though; like yours my Compaq has been reliable running TCL (far less hassle so far than the Dell running Windows!), just a bit slow.

Thanks curaga for the AMD tip. I hadn't really thought much about that type but will look into it.

tetonca:
If you get bad colors from video, try dropping down to
800x600 to get a full palette, on an older machine.

It takes some experimentation to find the vga=xxx
parameter that works best on a given machine.

thane:
A little OT, but I just found out my Tiny Core setup has survived some powerbutton playing by my 1-year-old grandnephew. I don't recommend trying this but it's nice to have such a robust distro. Thanks Tiny Core!

thane:
Well, looks like the hard disk went -- tried to boot TC today and it would hang before it loaded extensions. After a bit of fiddling found out the hard drive was timing out. Since I don't have TC installed on the hard drive (it always sounded flaky), disabled the IDE (or something) and now TC boots. Occasionally a shot in the dark hits the target, I guess.

edit: Well, I thought it was OK, but it sounds like the hard disk is still being accessed (no light though). Guess I'll have to disconnect it completely...

OK, disconnected the hard drive and re-enabled the IDE (or whatever); seems to work.

thane:
<bump>

Well, I bit the bullet and got hit by a bullet. Bought an AMD box with 2g memory and no hard disk. It's a barebones but I paid for the assembly.

Anyway, it boots TCL off the CD and the appbrowser works. However, it not only failed to recognize my usb stick but apparently fried it. After I shutdown I removed the stick and it was very warm to the touch. My old Compaq box couldn't read it (although it did successfully read another usb stick with a tce directory on it).

Guess I'll have to crack the case and see whats wrong in there (it's an InWin V564 Micro ATX). There are clips on it but popping them loose doesn't seem to do anything. Will start taking out screws unless somebody's got a better idea. At least they sent along an assembly manual. Sigh.

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