emachine W3118 [from trash]

[vinnywright]

OK so
my son brings me this box.......he found it on the side of the road in the trash pile yesterday.

he seas dosent look like mutch but maby theirs some parts you can use........ I look ......no HD.......no RAM....the fans are laying in the case loose ........and theirs no side panel for the case.....but the CPU is still attached and thars a HP lightscribe DVD burner in it .................so I spent last night tinkering with it .......and wala 8)

I have a new second in line box.......(is now the second best box in the house)

hears some specks

vinny@desk2:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 44
model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm
bogomips : 2009.09
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

vinny@desk2:~$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.2 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
04:06.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
04:07.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
vinny@desk2:~$

vinny@desk2:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 475784 461432 14352 0 6192 111088
-/+ buffers/cache: 344152 131632
Swap: 2342904 108860 2234044
vinny@desk2:~$

ya onley 512Mib RAM ........but it's running just swell with Kubuntu-10.04 with the standard upgrades on install.
KDE-4.4.5 Kernel- 2.6.32-28-generic

I hapend to have some 256-RAM chips laying around and some old HD's .......I thrugh a 40Gig in for / and /home and swap..........and a WD 80Gig for storage............+ my wirless card............and

so far so good it ran all night and dident freek out so now I'm going to use it......

just wandering though with that nVidia GPU .......should I stick with the stock driver or let jockey add 1??

☯VINNY☯

[lmilano]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

Congrats! Yeah, I would probably load the binary driver. NVIDIA (as opposed to Intel and AMD/ATI) doesn't produce an Open Source driver, or even give any specs to developers, so the open source drivers have an uphill battle ...

[vinnywright]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

that's all the push I needed ...........the hardware driver installer in K>apps>system is DLing the curent driver now......will say how it goes.

VINNY

[vinnywright]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

sweet.......now we got 3D

[img width=400 height=300]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c291/vinnywright/snapshot1-2.png[/img]

and Yakuake

[img width=400 height=300]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c291/vinnywright/snapshot2-3.png[/img]

so far so good 8)

☯VINNY☯

[lmilano]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

Niiiiiiice

[vinnywright]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

geting it pimped

[img width=400 height=319]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c291/vinnywright/snapshot4.png[/img]

VINNY

[lmilano]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

Just to think that this machine was sitting on a trash can! Linux is SASSY

[vinnywright]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

Just to think that this machine was sitting on a trash can! Linux is SASSY

yes

[img width=400 height=319]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c291/vinnywright/snapshot5.png[/img]

one man's trash becomes another's treasure

☯VINNY☯

[GreyGeek]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

If it runs OK on 10.4 I'll bet it will fly on Natty!!

[ardvark71]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

Hi Vinny....

I see you've been busy, nice work!

Regards...

[MoonRise]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

Cool! Yes, that processor you have is a very capable processor. Have a test machine at work with that processor. Only issue I have is the system has a very poor graphics card. Yours seems great! New life! Great!

[vinnywright]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

@GreyGeek why?......is natty that mutch lighter.

@ardvark71 thank you!

@MoonRise it's doing well so far.........yes the processor I think is even 64bit ....but with so little ram I dident bother with the 64bit Kubuntu. ...........geting some lightscribe discs today maby

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Re: emachine W3118 [from trash]

@GreyGeek why?......is natty that mutch lighter.
.....

Not lighter, but NOTICEABLY faster. Last weekend I put the 2/13/11 dailybuild onto a friend's 8 year old Sony VAIO VGN-RS420 running a P4 with 512MB of RAM. I was stunned by its quickness. Streaming a YouTube video smoothly and without the annoying cache refill depends partly on your Internet bandwidth, but that RS420 allowed me to watch "The Divinci Code" full screen without a pause.