Not quite ready for the Geriatric Ward!

Hey everybody. I just wanted to drop in and and say hello to all of my Gateway and eMachines buddies.

For nostalga sake, I am posting this message from my eMachines M6811 that got its big screen debut right here in Notebook Forums where you all saw her naked while I was performing major surgery in order to resolve the infamous eMachines/Gateway overheating problem.

Well I am happy to say that both my eMachines m6811 and my Gateway 7422gX are running strong! and I mean strong. I have not had the overheating/shutdown problem on either of them for years and they are not yet ready for the Geriatric ward! . I will say that they do have their AARP cards by default.

The e-machines is running Ubuntu Lucid and the GW is still zipping along with XP-64. I am tempted to put W7 on it as my D810 is running just great with W7.

Yes, I do have some new blood one of which is a Elite 8530w which is a Beast! but I will post in the general forum for the Old Folks Home for Lappy's.

Chow

Eunix

That is about right, maybe a little older. The GW has had a head replacement as I cracked the screen so the top covers say eMachines.

I may mod the cases to make them more modern and slick but believe it or not I have some older machines still in daily use back to PIII TP T23 Not worth selling on ebay as they are still good!

Eunix

I think W7 would work better on this machine than it does on my D810 because it has the 64bit processor and the D810 is not but the D810 is really awesome still. I have 3 of them one running Server 2005 that I use as a test db machine for work.

I really can't justify buying a core i7 or Alienware Gaming machine with the mileage that I get out of my boxes.

Yeah, I have a few machines that are older that are still functional and I have some that are not. The question is what to do with the older ones. Back in the day you could give your older stuff away but now, there is no point when someone can get a fresh netbook to do the job. I really would like to get a nice core i7 notebook like the HP dv8 (with my discount ) but I have not use for it so why spend the money. The basic applications that most people use do not require all of that processing power.

Now on the really old stuff, I have thrown puppy linux on them which is cool but I do still have copies of Win 95, NT4 WS and 2000 if neccessary.

Yeah but you have to hit the sweet spot for parting. Once a lappy gets too old, you can't even push the parts on the bay. For example, I have a GW solo 9550 that came in handy for a co-worker of mine who's machine went down and used it for a year because she was out of work and had a kid in college.

After that, I picked up some parts on the bay because I cracked the screen but the machine now runs puppy linux and I have the docking station and everything. I may turn it into a network sniffer but there is absolutely no market for parts for that old thing.

It serves me better doing utility work.

Eunix

Yes, Even MORE life left in this puppy! - I took the GW7422GX and lapped the an 80 Gig drive (from the 100G 7200rmp on that had XP on it) and Installed W7 Enterprise N on it.

I did a custom install becaue I didn't care about keeping the old programs and I have to say it runs much better than the RC version that I tried back in the day.

I did have to wrestle a bit with the ATI Radeon Catalyst driver and download a modem driver from Motorolla, but everything is running groovy.

I would dare say that it runs better thant the sister machine (M6811) running Ubuntu 10.x

Now if I can find a couple of new batteries on the ultra cheap, I may be able to mark these two machine fit for ye olde laptop bag and travel once again!

Right now they have limited travel and desk side duty!

Ha ha, I am going to rename my computer geriatric ward the Revitalization Ward. I love it when I have a little bit of time to tinker with my machines.

Since I have the N version I have to add the multimedia extensions and maybe the overclock tools but I don't really need them. I may open it up again to max the memory to 2Gig but the feel of the machine is as if was new again.

The only thing that I don't like about W7, the upgrade option are limited. I tried to install Enterpris N (64) on my Dual core opteron Sun Ultra20 M2 machine which has Vista Enterprise 64 on it but it would not do and I had to install a 3rd boot partition.

Cheers and happy tinkering everyone!

Eunix