found an old PIII 800Mhz Compaq

• kog

  21 Apr 07, 00:12

  free
  only the chasis, no monitor, no keyboard, no mouse
  previous owner said it still runs, only hdd got problem
  what should I do now? to make a small decent workstation.
  
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Apr 07, 00:16

  The rest still intact?
  
  As in motherboard, processor, CD ROM, 3.5 floppy disk are still connected?
  
  If yes, then you can just get a new HDD, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Then get an OS to install... either you pay for Windows or download a copy of Linux...
• alwaysdisturbed

  21 Apr 07, 00:20

  ancient system.
  
  i doubt it can be a decent one.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Apr 07, 00:21

  Can, if use Linux.
  
  Xubuntu, Slackware, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Xfld are some of the less taxing on system resources OS.
• alwaysdisturbed

  21 Apr 07, 00:39

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Can, if use Linux.
  
  Xubuntu, Slackware, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Xfld are some of the less taxing on system resources OS.

  ya, true.
  
  but i'm just looking from a typical user point of view.
• kog

  21 Apr 07, 12:18

  tested with ubuntu live cd, quite fast! everything ok except hdd
  harddisk confirm dead!