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I'm buying a Shuttle SV24 for LDRAW and Linux. It's a toaster-sized PC you can put together for under $600: (URL) low hassle, lots of ports for exotic input/output devices, and it's small enough to hide. Disadvantages: bad for games, not (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Did you see the other machine at that site, the "Pandora's box"??? What did you think of IT? I'm in the market for a new desktop at the mo too so this was interesting, thanks for the ref! (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think Pandora is ugly (Shuttle SV24 is more R2D2 cute) and I'd rather make my own case first (heh heh...) Anyway, good luck finding it in the USA. You can order the SV24 from outpost.com with or without a CPU. (see chipmerchant.com for that, (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Did you ever buy one? How did it go? I'm asking because I just went through ordering two SV25's (the later edition) and both of them ended up being dead on arrivial. :( All my components are good but I get no POST, no drive spinning, etc. The (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Try to disconnect everything that you don't need to get a pic on the monitor, LED's, floppy, HDD, CD etc. Just leave the CPU and memory (and the power switch if it's ATX - or use some metal to short the right jumper pins (on your own risk)). (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Erik Olson" <erik@olson.pair.com> wrote in message news:GqMB65.Gss@lugnet.com... (...) On a similar have you seen this? (URL) more expensive, but a lot smaller! Dan (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just to update. I did some calling around and digging on the net and discovered that the old celeron processer i was using isn't supported by the system. THis wasn't mentioned from the site i ordered from or in the manual (maybe it was but it was in (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Update: I've built 2 of these Shuttles P3/1ghz, concurrently with a friend's P4 upgrade. They're noisy little pigs, and need tailoring for a happy mix of components. The fan in the power supply is inferior to most, and the noisy cpu fan is (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I hadn't seen it, thanks. Worth the $900? hmm. Aside: I was told to put floppy drives in the Shuttles... one had a bad floppy (what do you expect for a $9 piece of hardware?) So I taught everybody how to use the CDRW and they've started to (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) that's too bad... I received SV25s as well and both survived my numerous mistakes. I used 1ghz P3s and Crucial 256MB. The BIOS startup on these things is superior to the ASUS P4 board I experienced. (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Shuttle's motherboard manual is worse than most. Why can't these manufacturers hire at least one multilingual adolescent to proofread, who would end up working at Starbuck's otherwise? "If the beeps accordingly, fabricate the motherboard in (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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