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After half-dismantling the boot-looping computer it somehow healed itself. I'll take that win.
The other one that kept locking up on me after being on it for several minutes - eh, I put that to the side. I call it "The Craiger" because I got almost all the parts off of Craig's list. I wouldn't recommend it but I did have it working a few years ago.
I started playing with my housemate's old Win 7 system which with every new graphics card would take longer and longer to boot. A half an hour of Duckduckgo-ing wielded a post from almost a decade ago with people having the same problem. The recommended fix: a BIOS update.
Now... I've flashed BIOSes before and I know if it fails you can brink your system, so it's a little nerve wracking. It took a little fiddling with the system to flash the latest BIOS but that seemed to do the trick! I know the drivers are messed up because it need to reinstall the USB drivers after the BIOS update. Since I tried out several different graphics cards the graphic drivers are definitely whacked. I showed it to my housemate and they Ooooed and Aahhhed over the retro memories. I'm not sure if the OS is a bit borked since it didn't allow anyone into the Admin account but hey, it boots!
I'm not sure what I want to do with it at this time but it does have a M.2 SATA slot available. Replacing the spinning rust with SSD drives is definitely on the menu.
And over in this corner... I resurrected an old Dell Vosro 200 after replacing the bad ram and the dead BIOS battery. The original XP install is locked down so I'll probably nuke the disk and make it my Haiku OS test box. Haiku is pretty snappy even on spinning rust drives.
The other one that kept locking up on me after being on it for several minutes - eh, I put that to the side. I call it "The Craiger" because I got almost all the parts off of Craig's list. I wouldn't recommend it but I did have it working a few years ago.
I started playing with my housemate's old Win 7 system which with every new graphics card would take longer and longer to boot. A half an hour of Duckduckgo-ing wielded a post from almost a decade ago with people having the same problem. The recommended fix: a BIOS update.
Now... I've flashed BIOSes before and I know if it fails you can brink your system, so it's a little nerve wracking. It took a little fiddling with the system to flash the latest BIOS but that seemed to do the trick! I know the drivers are messed up because it need to reinstall the USB drivers after the BIOS update. Since I tried out several different graphics cards the graphic drivers are definitely whacked. I showed it to my housemate and they Ooooed and Aahhhed over the retro memories. I'm not sure if the OS is a bit borked since it didn't allow anyone into the Admin account but hey, it boots!
I'm not sure what I want to do with it at this time but it does have a M.2 SATA slot available. Replacing the spinning rust with SSD drives is definitely on the menu.
And over in this corner... I resurrected an old Dell Vosro 200 after replacing the bad ram and the dead BIOS battery. The original XP install is locked down so I'll probably nuke the disk and make it my Haiku OS test box. Haiku is pretty snappy even on spinning rust drives.
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