Plague back together
Finally got Plague put back together, after gutting it for parts for Earthquake. It’s going to be a game PC for others to play on my LAN when they come over for beers and such. Plus I need a Win9x PC…
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Monthly Archive: November 2001
Bah to Bad RAM
Bah RAM sticks. Headcrash has been locking up on me quite often lately, but I finally resolved the issue by popping out the four sticks and re-seating them. It looks to have done the trick. They must have come lose during all…
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Locust Update
Locust is currently stripped and in pieces, cannibalized for parts for my other computers. When Earthquake gets built, this guy will be created from remaining stuff.
My First PC… Called Plague
This is a machine that I bought about four years ago and have been upgrading steadily ever since. Many of its original components have found their way into my other boxes. I bought my wife a new Dell Inspiron Laptop, making…
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A PC Named Locust
Locust is a collection of spare parts left over from various boxes I’ve built over the years. I use this box as my scratch computer, primarily using it to try out new operating systems and various tweaks. At any given…
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Been a while…
It’s been a while since I updated this page, as I’ve been too busy playing with my new toy Earthquake. I got the trim for the last mod (heh!) to this machine, some fan duct trim from CaseEtc. Tonight I’m going to cut…
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Headcrash Weekend Update
I tore apart Headcrash over the weekend because I was sick of Windows NT and was looking for something new to do. Since I’m planning on getting my Win2k MSCE I decided to make it a Windows 2000 Server. After fighting with…
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Current HX08 mods for Headcash
The mods on the Aopen HX08 are pretty standard, as this was my first case, and consist of the following: One 120mm chimney fan sucking air out of top. One 120mm ducted fan in bezel in lower front blowing air into the…
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Headcrash Background
I had a file server that had basically outgrown its case and was looking for a bigger, full tower case. I’d recently picked up the case modding bug and was looking for a good solid case with good cooling possibilities,…
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