I got the computer from a family member for dirt cheap so everything is kosher. As far as reinstalling the operating system, I assume you mean reformatting? That's waaaaaay beyond me. Might leave that up to the geek squad at best buy :) Thanks for your reply.
@tuffnugly454 Hiring the geek squad will either turn into a license for them to print money or a fiasco. Probably a bit of both to be honest.
If you have or can get the operating system installation media, it's not that bad of a job. You'd basically start the computer up with the Windows installation CD and follow the instructions. Then you'd add in the drivers and other software. I think you could do it, with a little trial and error.
I have a 10 year old Dell Dimension PC 4300. Whenever I try to access craigslist, this content advisor keeps coming up asking me a for a supervisors' password. If I go to control panel to turn it off, it still asks me for a supervisors' password. Is there anyway around this? Thanks in advance
@tuffnugly454 I don't know of one. If you got the computer secondhand with the operating system installed, I would strongly recommend reinstalling it. Who knows what else you might find or not know about...?
damn Segate drives.. I hope it doesn't die on ya too soon.. every one I've seen has.. also.. I meant to tell ya.. NewEgg had Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB HDD's on sale for $55 not that long ago...
(w w w . g r c . c o m) remove spaces in the middle! here you can get more info on SpinRite for anyone is interested.... Have similar experience that you have :o)
@matty12345a1 The VIA option ROM may have problems with large disks, which may cause problems at bootup. If your computer doesn't boot from the card, it won't matter as long as you are running an operating system that takes over control of the hardware with its own drivers.
There are two bugs in the VT6421--some revisions will not negotiate the proper 1.5 gigabit data rate with 3 gigabit SATA devices. It also absolutely will not work with advanced format drives--confirmed by VIA support.
@matty12345a1 I don't know. It *should* as long as you got one with a boot ROM that actually has useful code in it. (If you see messages about a VIA VT6421 RAID utility, you should be OK. However, some systems suppress these messages.) I've never used a SATA adapter for CF cards--the PATA ones are simpler and should work in just about any system you can find.
There should not be any harm in trying it and seeing what happens if you already have the parts.
uxwbill's computer museum. Once a person bought a Packard Bell it was the last Packard Bell they would buy. Egads what crap those things were. They should have all been rolled down skyhill and into the pond. Thought I would forget eh?
for those who had never heard of spinrite. should check out the twit network podcasts. and that extra dell button is for recovery software from dell...
I seen that old packard bell and it brought back a lot of memories back before I became disabled working for NCR it changed to ATT GIS for a while and they took on the contract for all the Packard Bell and ATT computers and laptops sold by sears in the late 80s I was the expert only MCSE A+ trained guy in the region so I got all the computer calls along with my POS and ATM calls traveled to people houses fixing them . I still have a few motherboards and a ton of old good SIMM 256 1mb memory
@firehawk400 I hang onto these old monitors as they can be handy for things like this (and no big loss if something goes wrong). 14/15" S/VGA monitors are getting harder to find and do have their uses. Interestingly enough, my dad bought this monitor new in the early 90s when he bought a Packard Bell 386SX. It is the last piece left...a flood took the rest.
@uxwbill I have a little 9-inch monochrome SVGA monitor which is great for uses like this. It will display resolutions up to 1024x768, but only at low refresh rates.
@firehawk400 all my computers are Packard bell. I find them reliable and will probably never go to any other brand. I use an old Packard bell desktop as a server and have never had any issues with it
@Majorzzero NEC took the brand out of the US shortly after they bought it. PB lived just long enough to barely make it into the ATX and Pentium II era here in the States and then they were gone.
Funny thing is, although PB's quality control and quality of engineering were lacking, it does seem that their products lasted pretty well. We've had a few PB boxes here, the last one running was my mother's Legend 100CD, which took her from 1992-2008 or so. And I have some really old ones that work.
Spinrite used to be my goto tool for stuff back in the early and mid nineties, but a lot of the time trying to use it on modern IDE drives can cause more bad than good.
@MyRedneckLife Version 6 was released in 2004. It should be OK with any modern drive that is correctly represented by the system BIOS. The only questionable area is around the new 4K sector drives. I'm not sure they're a problem, as the firmware on the Western Digital 4K/sector drives appears to be telling a large number of lies regarding the disk geometry.
Dont you think that the cost of running this 24/7 would cost more then just having a bunch of disks attached to a Router with a USB port with a USB hub attached? Or does it not really take much?
@misterpc23 I talked of this a little in one of my previous FreeNAS videos. The HP Vectra PC I used in that project compared extremely favorably with a Linksys NSLU2 plus drives. As it is, I haven't been too impressed with many of the purpose built devices I've seen...you're usually bound to whatever the vendor is willing to support and only for as long as they're supporting it.
@walkingfreak Depends upon what's wrong with them...you've got to know what you're up against first. SpinRite can't really help with electronic/control board malfunctions. I've seen enough success from it to say that it works, but I'd also say "back up what you can read beforehand".
@walkingfreak Yeah, that's a big problem...the drives do have to at least come online (spin up, unlock the headstack and initialize properly) for any software tool to do any good.
Your drives *could* be suffering from stiction, especially if they're older. Taking them in your hand and "cranking" them on their axis (in line with the spindles) while you apply power might get them going. If you do get them to go, have a plan in place to get the data off.
@uxwbill oh really i could spin them up by hand but how would i do that do i have to take off the cover off them cause there both SCSI connection drives aka scuzzy interface and if i can spin them up by hand i might have a chance
Spinrite sounds interesting. I really should do more with the hdd in this PC. It's a Maxtor from 2003 and has never let me down to date. It's run at capacity for the last 3 years too.
Recently cloned it onto a 160gb hdd but the PC didn't want to boot properly from it. I had to boot from my old one but I deleted all added media from it. The new disk is just for storage.
Hi Will, Could You Please Make A Tour of Your Server Room?
MyTechtime 3 months ago
hi uxwbill
i am just wondering why you chose 2 different drives for raid would it not be better to have 2 of the same drives?
Tomthetoolman100 6 months ago
I got the computer from a family member for dirt cheap so everything is kosher. As far as reinstalling the operating system, I assume you mean reformatting? That's waaaaaay beyond me. Might leave that up to the geek squad at best buy :) Thanks for your reply.
tuffnugly454 7 months ago
@tuffnugly454 Hiring the geek squad will either turn into a license for them to print money or a fiasco. Probably a bit of both to be honest.
If you have or can get the operating system installation media, it's not that bad of a job. You'd basically start the computer up with the Windows installation CD and follow the instructions. Then you'd add in the drivers and other software. I think you could do it, with a little trial and error.
uxwbill 7 months ago
Hi Bill,
I have a 10 year old Dell Dimension PC 4300. Whenever I try to access craigslist, this content advisor keeps coming up asking me a for a supervisors' password. If I go to control panel to turn it off, it still asks me for a supervisors' password. Is there anyway around this? Thanks in advance
tuffnugly454 1 year ago
@tuffnugly454 I don't know of one. If you got the computer secondhand with the operating system installed, I would strongly recommend reinstalling it. Who knows what else you might find or not know about...?
uxwbill 7 months ago
damn Segate drives.. I hope it doesn't die on ya too soon.. every one I've seen has.. also.. I meant to tell ya.. NewEgg had Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB HDD's on sale for $55 not that long ago...
Sansui350A 1 year ago
(w w w . g r c . c o m) remove spaces in the middle! here you can get more info on SpinRite for anyone is interested.... Have similar experience that you have :o)
bigtoy63 1 year ago
What operating system are you gonna use? Or already using?
invnd1245 1 year ago
@invnd1245 FreeNAS 0.7.2 and its underlying FreeBSD.
uxwbill 1 year ago
why is the router on directly on top of the other one mine has vent holes where you're white one is sitting
itscool1968 1 year ago
@itscool1968 The bottom piece is a cable modem and stays very cool.
uxwbill 1 year ago
@uxwbill i thout that specific via chip had problems with anything over 750gb
matty12345a1 7 months ago
@matty12345a1 The VIA option ROM may have problems with large disks, which may cause problems at bootup. If your computer doesn't boot from the card, it won't matter as long as you are running an operating system that takes over control of the hardware with its own drivers.
There are two bugs in the VT6421--some revisions will not negotiate the proper 1.5 gigabit data rate with 3 gigabit SATA devices. It also absolutely will not work with advanced format drives--confirmed by VIA support.
uxwbill 7 months ago
@uxwbill will the card boot from a sata adapter with a 4gb cf card in it
matty12345a1 7 months ago
@matty12345a1 I don't know. It *should* as long as you got one with a boot ROM that actually has useful code in it. (If you see messages about a VIA VT6421 RAID utility, you should be OK. However, some systems suppress these messages.) I've never used a SATA adapter for CF cards--the PATA ones are simpler and should work in just about any system you can find.
There should not be any harm in trying it and seeing what happens if you already have the parts.
uxwbill 7 months ago
uxwbill's computer museum. Once a person bought a Packard Bell it was the last Packard Bell they would buy. Egads what crap those things were. They should have all been rolled down skyhill and into the pond. Thought I would forget eh?
BonhommeRichard91 1 year ago
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spinrite is great , steve gibson rocks!
for those who had never heard of spinrite. should check out the twit network podcasts. and that extra dell button is for recovery software from dell...
MrOne2watch 1 year ago
spinrite is great , steve gibson rocks!
for those who had never heard of spinrite. should check out the twit network podcasts. and that extra dell button is recovery software from dell...
MrOne2watch 1 year ago
spinrite is great , steve gibson rocks!
for those who had never heard of spinrite. should check out the twit network podcasts.
MrOne2watch 1 year ago
I seen that old packard bell and it brought back a lot of memories back before I became disabled working for NCR it changed to ATT GIS for a while and they took on the contract for all the Packard Bell and ATT computers and laptops sold by sears in the late 80s I was the expert only MCSE A+ trained guy in the region so I got all the computer calls along with my POS and ATM calls traveled to people houses fixing them . I still have a few motherboards and a ton of old good SIMM 256 1mb memory
ncrdisabled 1 year ago
get those sticky heat strips to dissipate the heat for your router
Villlaparkmike 1 year ago
Wow, I haven't seen a Packard Bell anything in about 10 years.
firehawk400 1 year ago
@firehawk400 I hang onto these old monitors as they can be handy for things like this (and no big loss if something goes wrong). 14/15" S/VGA monitors are getting harder to find and do have their uses. Interestingly enough, my dad bought this monitor new in the early 90s when he bought a Packard Bell 386SX. It is the last piece left...a flood took the rest.
uxwbill 1 year ago
@uxwbill I have a little 9-inch monochrome SVGA monitor which is great for uses like this. It will display resolutions up to 1024x768, but only at low refresh rates.
vwestlife 1 year ago
@firehawk400 all my computers are Packard bell. I find them reliable and will probably never go to any other brand. I use an old Packard bell desktop as a server and have never had any issues with it
thetechall 1 year ago
@firehawk400 Strange, in Norway they still sell brand new PB computers in the store, but most of them are pure crap :P
Majorzzero 1 year ago
@Majorzzero I guess they withdrew from the US market in the late 90's once NEC took them over, but they're still sold in several other countries.
firehawk400 1 year ago
@Majorzzero NEC took the brand out of the US shortly after they bought it. PB lived just long enough to barely make it into the ATX and Pentium II era here in the States and then they were gone.
Funny thing is, although PB's quality control and quality of engineering were lacking, it does seem that their products lasted pretty well. We've had a few PB boxes here, the last one running was my mother's Legend 100CD, which took her from 1992-2008 or so. And I have some really old ones that work.
uxwbill 1 year ago
Spinrite used to be my goto tool for stuff back in the early and mid nineties, but a lot of the time trying to use it on modern IDE drives can cause more bad than good.
MyRedneckLife 1 year ago
@MyRedneckLife Version 6 was released in 2004. It should be OK with any modern drive that is correctly represented by the system BIOS. The only questionable area is around the new 4K sector drives. I'm not sure they're a problem, as the firmware on the Western Digital 4K/sector drives appears to be telling a large number of lies regarding the disk geometry.
uxwbill 1 year ago
Dont you think that the cost of running this 24/7 would cost more then just having a bunch of disks attached to a Router with a USB port with a USB hub attached? Or does it not really take much?
misterpc23 1 year ago
@misterpc23 I talked of this a little in one of my previous FreeNAS videos. The HP Vectra PC I used in that project compared extremely favorably with a Linksys NSLU2 plus drives. As it is, I haven't been too impressed with many of the purpose built devices I've seen...you're usually bound to whatever the vendor is willing to support and only for as long as they're supporting it.
uxwbill 1 year ago
The fairly big closet
Ltb0b 1 year ago
awesome video
nsub6 1 year ago
Spin rite...have to remember that...
Looks like all is well....so far....
Interesting wireless router, don't think Ive ever had one that overheats.
clubcar98 1 year ago
hmm spin right? i got a couple of pooched drives at home with SCSI interface that have some stuff id like to get off but dont know how
walkingfreak 1 year ago
@walkingfreak I can tell you watch 1pug's videos
The18Jake 1 year ago
@The18Jake pff no i would never hahaha
walkingfreak 1 year ago
@walkingfreak Depends upon what's wrong with them...you've got to know what you're up against first. SpinRite can't really help with electronic/control board malfunctions. I've seen enough success from it to say that it works, but I'd also say "back up what you can read beforehand".
uxwbill 1 year ago
@uxwbill all i know is that when powered on both of them they just click no spinning
walkingfreak 1 year ago
@walkingfreak Yeah, that's a big problem...the drives do have to at least come online (spin up, unlock the headstack and initialize properly) for any software tool to do any good.
Your drives *could* be suffering from stiction, especially if they're older. Taking them in your hand and "cranking" them on their axis (in line with the spindles) while you apply power might get them going. If you do get them to go, have a plan in place to get the data off.
uxwbill 1 year ago
@uxwbill oh really i could spin them up by hand but how would i do that do i have to take off the cover off them cause there both SCSI connection drives aka scuzzy interface and if i can spin them up by hand i might have a chance
walkingfreak 1 year ago
Spinrite sounds interesting. I really should do more with the hdd in this PC. It's a Maxtor from 2003 and has never let me down to date. It's run at capacity for the last 3 years too.
Recently cloned it onto a 160gb hdd but the PC didn't want to boot properly from it. I had to boot from my old one but I deleted all added media from it. The new disk is just for storage.
MrStelmer 1 year ago
sixth, great as usual KEYKEEPER"S BROTHER, HAHA JK GrEAT
mikeluscher159 1 year ago
Hows the new palace going... Did I mis any video's?
mrbreeze732 1 year ago
i havend backed up any of my videos. simply because i dont have a computer with a big enough hard drive to store them all.
Dell0304 1 year ago
first
McGorillaProduction 1 year ago
@McGorillaProduction Congrats. Have a cookie.
lynchburgcsi57 1 year ago