[geeks] I am week

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to get a PC running to run windows on.

OK.

> I also hope to give Lindows and VMWare on windows a spin, for
> helping a friend who wants to switch, but isn't highly computer
> literate.

P2-300 MHz is a *minimal* VMWare machine, that is the Mfg. stated
minimum, IIRC - it will be on the slow side, like a P2-100 -> P2-150
(due to emulation overhead)...

> I have a HP kayak machine.  It seems to think that there should be a
> fan at the top in the back, but there is none there.

And you have specific error messages that point this out, right?

> I'm fairly certain it isn't really needed for cooling, but it won't
> boot without one.

Any idea where the fan went? Can you get enough specifics to secure a
replacement? If you can get any info on the MB jumpers, you may be able
to "fake it out", but if the fan was there originally, it may actually
be needed...

Honestly, a P2-300 machine like you describe may make a good donor
system to a new MB/chassis - Kayaks (IIRC, and I may not RC) are
low-end, minimally engineered machines (i.e. small SP, limited
expansion, etc.)... Maybe you should look for a new/known good P2 MB &
case to transplant CPU, RAM, HD, CD, etc...

This machine may have reached it's end-of-life, due to the fan
removal...


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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