~misfit~ wrote:
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I've just spent virtually the whole day building a system. Nothing like
yours though. I had an old (three years old) Abit BX133-RAID board I was
given that had died of the dreaded "crap capacitor" syndrome. It would only
run for 20 seconds or so and then die. It had 10 bulging caps. I replaced
them all with caps I removed from a bunch of P1 boards I had lying around, I
had to put a couple on 'legs' as they were too fat to fit next to each
other, three in a row, the middle one is flush but the other two are leaning
over.

The end result is currently handling the internet gateway for my LAN,
crunching SETI units (looks like 7-8 hours/unit) and playing my mp3
collection on random through the stereo. It's just a Celeron 900 on a 112Mhz
FSB (Just so I could break the gig mark <g>). It seems to be running
sweetly, I tested it with Prime95 for a few hours set up on the desk before
putting it in a full tower case. I've always liked the BX boards but they
were limited to ATA33 controllers. This board has a Promise ATA100 RAID
controller on it as well. I'm not using it in a RAID configuration, just
have a Maxtor 20GB ATA133 drive as my system drive running on the Promise
controller. LOL, I know this is ancient stuff but I'm amazed at how fast it
is compared with other systems of similar vintage, due to the fast disk
access. Now I can use all these 10-20GB drives I have lying around. I can
use up to eight IDE devices in it. mp3 and DivX storage.

Well, I'm pleased anyway. :-)  My main machine is an XP1800+ Tbred B running
at 2.1Ghz on a 200Mhz FSB, dual-channel RAM, nForce2 Ultra400 board. It
takes about 2 hours 15 minutes a unit on average.

What fun ay?

Sounds like you have been having fun :)

Have a few more bits lying around here, will try and have another clean-up and send them up your way if your interested? Also have a SPARC  station 20 motherboard with a 75MHz cpu (1MB cache),power supply and 128MB of RAM if you can find a 6.4 or 9.1GB SCSI (50 pin) drive, would make a nice project if your interested in playing with Solaris? I have one here running (2 x 75MHz cpus though ;) ) runs Solaris 9 and runs jSetidoor for my Seti cache. No video, just use a serial port and the CLI.