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Woo hooo Build a Box
Woo hoo, built my first box in aeons.
Been playing with various bits and pieces at work trying to piece together at least another functional box. Sometime later we decided that we needed a new box and we would look at reusing as many components from the trash pile I was playing with.
Unfortunately, bits and pieces of the trash pile was working, but together there was no ensemble. We decided to get new bits for the parts that looked like were dead and yesterday was my turn to put the bits together (and pray I don’t fry anything.)
I think the last time I actually had to put a box together from scratch was back in 1998? As I recall we had a bum machine at QSC and had to get the motherboard from Australia(?) Ever since then I’ve basically had some under my wings that I told to read the Taiwanese documentation and cable the box together. Of course that was an experience in itself in finding ports not working because they just weren’t wired up.
Anyhow, a relative newbie and not wanting to ever open this box again I made sure every lose wire got plugged into something even if there was no likelihood that it would ever get used. Double checked the bits I couldn’t figure out with our resident hardware dude, crossed my fingers and pushed 240v into the machine.
Poof, no-sound, nothing! Woo hooo, go software dude. In the distant pass, when computers don’t power up, and you’re somewhat certain that the power supply works fine, pull the PCI boards out and see what happens. So, pulled out a few boards and voila machine sings beautifully.
That wasn’t too bad, now was it?
Now I just have to leave enough space left in the trash at the house to dump all that gear people keep bringing to the house for me to wave my hands over and resurrect. I don’t think even Christ could have performed miracles on some of the junk people bring to the house.
After the euphoria died down, I took a biscuit treat and then start on configuring the machine. 3 hours later, I find out that I’ve got the wrong operating system on the machine and have to rebuild that bit again.
Another day, another tinker job done half-good half-bad. Oh and I’m building a firewall with OpenBSD amd64. There’s a Sun Sparcstation sitting in the cupboard, but I think it looks like it is serious stuff trash.
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