Today I wanted to test my newly arrived Nx motherboard but I cannot find my Host Adapter anywhere. It was a faulty card anyway so I would have had to buy one if the board worked (I'm pretty confident it does) so I'll just nab one when I can afford it... Or in a few minutes, payday can't be that far off now. I also don't have a PSU for it, but I'll just butcher an ATX one for now. I am sure I have one AT supply left.
I tested SCSI in my Pentium 60 (Ready for the 66MHz upgrade I have planned) but the drive I was testing, an old DEC branded Seagate ST3610N makes horrible clattering noises the whole time and doesn't appear to be working. I lack the cards and cables to use my newer Western Digital drive and it's too large anyway at 18.3GB - this the one remaining drive from my dual P3's original configuration, that one has used Quantum Atlas drives for a few years now. The computer did try to boot the Seagate drive though but failed for obvious reasons and so I deemed that I shall move it to SCSI as I pondered this when it was built. It seems more fitting, especially as the board has no built-in I/O at all.
I watched a few episodes of Scrapheap Challenge from 2001. Again reminded of the old playground arguments over Cathy VS Phillipa.
Dug out my Cardcaptor Sakura DVDs, might have to watch those soon.
Fed the spiderlings, they are growing quite fast and I'll probably have to let them go free soon. I think I will keep one. I also misted big spider's tank as it has been warm and I don't really want her to dehydrate.
I went back to the P60 and reasoned the fact the CD bay gets in the way of the CPU does piss me off more than I originally thought. I am now giving serious consideration to making a cover for the one remaining AT case I have. Said case got pulled out of the electronics graveyard a few years ago (I have a video of the place but that case isn't in it) and it was the source of some of the parts in my K5. The case was nice but it had no cover and no matter where i looked I could not find it. As it is one of those made of a single sheet folded over the top I figure it can't be that hard to make one at all and as I know someone who does that kind of thing for a living I can possibly get help. Thus, the Pentium 60 might be moved to that case and this would also leave that case free for the Nx because there is nothing but a keyboard controller and some simple logic up there i don't have to touch.
I also can't find a heatsink for the Nx. I wanted to test one of those three hole Socket A ones as suggested and know I have an Akasa one, but it is not where i remember leaving it. I do have a K7 that I never use and might be giving the board to a friend, so I shall see what heatsink in there. Quite a busy day to say I'm still getting over a stomach bug, but hell if I'm going to sit here and do nothing if I can be working on stuff I like doing.
Edit: Nah, such heatsinks do not fit properly, though they come close. A clip-on Pentium heatsink might work or one of those weird 90 degree wire ones I haven't seen in years, though I think I have one. I will probably end up using glue though. I guess I will just use a small bit of glue and a blob of thermal paste to hold one on, it would then be easier to take back off if I ever had to do that but I'd put a rubber band through the heatsink to discourage it falling off if the glue came loose.