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Bad news, good news
Jul. 22nd, 2020 06:13 pmTuesday the power went out around 1 pm. Estimated time of restoral was 4:30.
I wound up having to power off the two computers that were running instead of shutting them down properly. Y'see the primary monitor wasn't plugged into a UPS. Oops.
After digging through things, discovered that it had a gray power cord. Which made tracking things down easier. I switched it to the main computer's UPS. So that's one long standing hassle solved.
Power came back on after only 40 minutes or so. But I took advantage of things to swap out the secondary compter (Dell Vostro 220S slim desktop) for a different one I'd gotten from Doug months back.
I'd upgraded the RAM so the new one (a Dell Vostro 220 tower) had 4 gig just like the 220s has. I'd also added an external SATA port. One of the hangups had been getting the OS installed on the new-to-me system. Finally managed that about a month back by imaging the drive on the 220S and then installing over it.
So all that was left was pulling the 2 gig drive from the 220S and installing it in the 200. And copying some files between them over the LAN to update the files on the "new" machine.
Got the swap down late Tuesday, and the files copied without too much trouble.
Took until today to track down one set of problems. Seems that even though it has a built-in backup battery, the modem was messed up in some way. I kept getting told sites were unreachable, then they'd be reachable for a while then not again.
Finally dragged it out from the shelf it was sitting on and used a paper clip to press the reset button. Things are much better now.
Today, I did some updates on the Linux box (a Dell Otiplex 780), so I should be able to put it into service soon. I added a second external SATA port (it has one on the motherboard) and upgraded the RAM to 16 gig.
It booted fine, so now I just have to dig out the notes to see what password Doug set for my login.
After that I'll swap it with the "bench" system that I use for testing hardware and things. and start shifting to the Linux box as the main system.
I'll be adding an old SATA card to the bench system so it'll have SATA ports. Had to order a cable for it because it's old enough that it doesn't use an eSATA port for the external connection, but a SATA port. I got the cable and a spare a month or so back (along with the RAM for the Linux box) so things are progressing well on the long planned (and long delayed) chain of upgrades.
I wound up having to power off the two computers that were running instead of shutting them down properly. Y'see the primary monitor wasn't plugged into a UPS. Oops.
After digging through things, discovered that it had a gray power cord. Which made tracking things down easier. I switched it to the main computer's UPS. So that's one long standing hassle solved.
Power came back on after only 40 minutes or so. But I took advantage of things to swap out the secondary compter (Dell Vostro 220S slim desktop) for a different one I'd gotten from Doug months back.
I'd upgraded the RAM so the new one (a Dell Vostro 220 tower) had 4 gig just like the 220s has. I'd also added an external SATA port. One of the hangups had been getting the OS installed on the new-to-me system. Finally managed that about a month back by imaging the drive on the 220S and then installing over it.
So all that was left was pulling the 2 gig drive from the 220S and installing it in the 200. And copying some files between them over the LAN to update the files on the "new" machine.
Got the swap down late Tuesday, and the files copied without too much trouble.
Took until today to track down one set of problems. Seems that even though it has a built-in backup battery, the modem was messed up in some way. I kept getting told sites were unreachable, then they'd be reachable for a while then not again.
Finally dragged it out from the shelf it was sitting on and used a paper clip to press the reset button. Things are much better now.
Today, I did some updates on the Linux box (a Dell Otiplex 780), so I should be able to put it into service soon. I added a second external SATA port (it has one on the motherboard) and upgraded the RAM to 16 gig.
It booted fine, so now I just have to dig out the notes to see what password Doug set for my login.
After that I'll swap it with the "bench" system that I use for testing hardware and things. and start shifting to the Linux box as the main system.
I'll be adding an old SATA card to the bench system so it'll have SATA ports. Had to order a cable for it because it's old enough that it doesn't use an eSATA port for the external connection, but a SATA port. I got the cable and a spare a month or so back (along with the RAM for the Linux box) so things are progressing well on the long planned (and long delayed) chain of upgrades.
