Reply 20 of 56, by songoffall
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So today I went to my parents' place where my old PC from 2008 lives, used to be a beast back in the day. At this point I just needed a PC I could hook up the SCSI hard drive to, and well, I can confirm it's actually dead.
I also got an SD2IDE adapter and set it up with Compaq's recovery partition image which is available on archive.org, if anyone else needs it:
https://archive.org/details/compaq-deskpro-20 … ery-diagnostics
Whether it works or not - guess we'll find out tomorrow.
I also tested and confirmed my old PS/2 mouse might have succumbed to old age, the PC doesn't even detect it, and I tested it on 2 computers with PS/2 support. Guess I'll still keep it, for memories' sake, after all, it's the first mouse I owned.
The old XP computer... was quite a trip down the memory lane. From a more troubled, but also more optimistic time. I don't think I've used it since 2014.
Compaq Deskpro 2000/P2 300MHz/384Mb SDRAM/ESS ES1868F/Aureal Vortex 2
Asus A7N8X-VM400/AMD Athlon XP 2ooo+/512Mb DDR DRAM/GeForce 4 MX440/Creative Audigy 2
Asus P5Q Pro/Core2 Quad Q9400/2Gb DDR2/GeForce 8800GT/Creative X-Fi