[TriLUG] HELP! Catastrophic system loss

Jeff The Riffer riffer at vaxer.net
Sun Nov 16 12:34:14 EST 2008


My primary home PC decided that a new motherboard, CPU and memory (plus
power supply) was insufficient. So it murdered both my hard drives. 
Unfortunately, the last full backup I did was in May. I'm an idiot and
deserve this for not doing more careful offline backups.

So while I'm in the process of getting Penumbra diagnosed and deciding
what to do (if anything) about data recovery, I need something to use in
the meantime. I slapped Ubuntu on my ancient modded PC (which none of
you wanted to buy! Hmph), but it's only barely tolerable for E-mail and
web, and doesn't even have a DVD drive.

If you have any of this hardware that you'd be willing to lend, donate,
sell or swap for, please let me know ASAP!

	o Motherboard with AMD Socket 939 (takes Athalon 64 processors)
	o DVD-ROM drive
	o Soundblaster sound card
	o Old SATA hard drives

I've got an APC UPS that needs a new battery, a Neverlate alarm clock, a
good laptop bag that's never been used, and various odds and ends of old
PC parts I need to go through still...

Any help is appreciated, thanks!




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