Nerding out a bit - computer necromancy

I like fussing with old computers. Some are discards from work, some are Craig's list specials, some are garage sale finds and some are gifts from people who upgrade.

And then there's OPTs. That stands for Other People's Trash. 19 inch flatscreen monitor? I'll take that home. Cleaned it up, plugged it in, works fine.

I was messing around for around 3 hours today with a work discard. The disk drive and the power supply were dead so a spare drive, and a power supply from EVGA scratch and dent sale and I've got it booting!

IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!

I need to do a motherboard transplant to another case because the original case is one of those Compaq/HP things that used a non standard power supply. I've got a standard case with a dead motherboard in it so it should work out. Swapping motherboards is my least favorite thing with computer necromancy but you work with what you got.

With some extra ram and maybe a CPU swap from my spares bin I'll have a Pentium 4 - 3.0 Ghz system with 2 gigs of memory. Yes, it's old and slow but it's fun to see something discarded come back to life. In this time of abnormality it makes me feel normal again.

-m