ssh/ethernet hanging...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:21:38PM -0400, Peter King wrote:
> All good suggestions. I think I'll run memtest for a day or two to make
> sure that there aren't problems there, and if it passes memtest then
> move on to the rest of the system: BIOS reset, stripping drives and parts,
> the usual isolation testing. Even if it is older hardware, it isn't *that*
> old:
> 
>   Motherboard:  ASUS A7V8X-X
>   Processor:    AMD Athlon XP 2800+
>   Memory:       DDR 333 (PC 2700), 1GB
>   Network:      ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere (tulip.o)
>                 [after onboard via-rhine, e1000, and another gigabit NIC]
>   Video card:   Radeon HD 3650
> 
> Heck, I have a dual Pentium-II computer that still works perfectly. And my
> Sun UltraSparc 1E only quit because the battery *which is soldered to the
> motherboard* (!!!) finally died. Sometimes I do feel like I'm running the
> computer version of a retirement home, but this is one of the younger and
> more vigorous specimens.

I have an SGI that died from dead battery.  I unsoldered it, and put some
wires on and taped a new battery of the right voltage to it.  Works fine.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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