Seems last night my system died around 3am. Since I actually had to go into the office today , /sigh, I couldn’t work on it in my spare time… Not that I really have any right now.

At first I tought, hoped, it was just the power supply. Talked to my friend who had “loaned” me the system for playing around w/ to see if he had any more laying around I could snag a power supply from. Sadly, He no longer has any of these old systems around since they are clunkers by internet standards any more. We figured it was generic enough that any old AT power supply would work, which he had one laying around.

Came home, swapped it… System was dead dead. Guess the MB was fried.

Luckily I had another system I had picked up for cheap a few months ago… but I am a slacker and it had just been sitting in my dining room collecting dust.

The cool thing is I took the IDE HD from the old clunker of a Dell Dimension Pentium 4 system and tossed it into a home built Asus Core Duo system. Short of the network interface not working, The system booted right up minus the built in NIC. Luckily the NIC I was using in the old system was a GIG network card I had added in so I just moved it to the new system… And my server was back up w/o issue. Well… I did have to the change the BIOS to boot the IDE over the SCSI card.

Like to see you do that w/ a Window$ box…

Course now I still need to rebuild the system to take advantage of the 64 bit CPU, but at least I am back up and online and can get my email.