I had the main desktop DDR2 mysteriously lose video ( still don't know if it is just needing reseating memory or if the onboard video no longer works or if one of the four bad capacitors went too var awry to still work... lack of time to test..) Sorry for the formatting new ddr3 msi board FX-8320E .......... old ddr2 gigabyte ????? amd new usb mouse, had to use usm0 .............old usb mouse > legacy mouse adaptor, used psm0 new vt so can exit X (not tested yet) ............ old sc new vidcontrol to set resolution NOT ............. old vidcontrol MODE_276 brown black new onboard EUFI/LEGACY mode disabled sound ........... old game theatre sound card again working new no parallel port, card on order, ALL SLOTS FULL probably ............. old parallel port onboard new two pcie so Areca and Video card work .......... old Areca, OR video, used the former new cost $99 motherboard ......... old second hand board, probably more than $99 new nfe0 not working, none is WINDOWS strange "gaming" ... old nfe0 E2205 .... fixed with a axe/ue0 usb to ethernet box which I had sometimes problems with as to the novice one would try axe0 in wpa_ etc ignoring the instead ue0... new msi nvidia 750ti 2gb no PCIE adaptor necc .... old onboard video new nvidia-driver, had to build from ports ..... old nvidia-driver-304 new 8g ..... old 2g ddr2 If one prefers DDR2 for a two-cpu-on-lan setup, anyone knows of a very reliable source for a pair of mobo/CPU ? Not important that anyone answers Might-be-working-if-reassembled-enough-times-with-legacy-parts pentium 4 and DDR2 ( gigabyte amd) motherboards, ... e-waste or send to a FreeBSD developer for test and reuse somewhere? (each run but no video though, amd board is disassembled... ) The only question here I feel the need to address sooner not later is whether to duplicate the DDR3 amd system for in-case-Xorg-crashes-at-dawn backup, or discard the DDR2 board and build/buy two DDR2 systems to recreate what was working about twenty days ago flawlessly... bad capacitors on the motherboard notwithstanding. ( DDR2 amd, main was gigabyte, backup was msi... although each without a full range of slots vs ATX full size and costlier) At any rate is is cathartic to have a fully working v11 vt desktop with sound that I had no clue if would work without RMA, assistance, ... One or two items may be omitted from the list above... a 3x5 card has gone missing here since yesterday... too much paperwork in progress.Received on Sat Jul 23 2016 - 10:56:53 UTC
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