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Fun with frankenputers | by Egaeus | 2005-02-28 15:40:56 |
| Sounds like what a few buddies and I did. |
by Giranan |
2005-02-28 18:32:24 |
| We grabbed an old VIA board and plugged in a Celeron slot processor, somewhere around 128 MB of DRAM, an old, old HDD (I think it was one of those 2 GB Bigfoot drives... forgot the manufacturer) so we could save config files, and a 24x CD drive just to see if it could run Knoppix. When we got it all plugged in and running, we found that we couldn't access the BIOS to change around the boot sequence because some program called FORTRESS had rewritten a part of the programming so that unless you got into the FORTRESS software from the Windows machine it was installed in and disabled the protection, you couldn't access the BIOS no matter what. That was a pain in the neck to get rid of. We had to dig up a flash for the board and get the dodgy floppy controller to cooperate long enough to finish the flash process. The five of us were tearing our collective hair out. |
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