Reply 6280 of 27793, by LHN91
Finished documenting, cleaning up, and reinstalling Windows ME on the PCs that make up my in-law's basement retro LAN.
It's quite a random selection of hardware, most of it saved from the scrap pile or from old family PCs. A couple of the machines were getting flaky and/or failing, so I had to swap out a couple of parts - a rather substandard socket 478 machine with no AGP slot had a failing capacitor, so I disposed of the board and swapped another one in, and an IBM NetVista with a P3 was starting to get unreliable.
Here's the current collection:
It's all networked by static IP via an old PureData 16 port 10 MB switch.
There's still one machine in the lot with a failing capacitor, but after some testing it seems to be working okay. It's on a decent board (GA-8IPE1000-G rev. 4.x)so I will probably eventually do a recap, but for now I don't have time.
Specs sheet is here, if anyone is interested. It doesn't have the full model numbers on all the parts, but at least now I know roughly what is in each machine. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ajk3r … dit?usp=sharing
Next job, is to reinstall the games 😵