How long can yours last?

[Maggi]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Indiana:
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OS reinstalls - what's that </font>

wasn't that called soft booting ?

I remember that my chips came with kickstart 3.0, but I used 3.1 from HD

good old times ...

[paul]

My commodore 128 was modified (as a kit) to take a Xetec 20mb hard drive which it booted from.

[Guyver]

Damn man, forgot about 1 client up north still running their 386/20 with 4MB RAM (extended), 180MB hard drive and SCO Xenix 2.3.2GT (I can't even remember if we placed any Y2k patches on that bugger since the RDBMS used a century work-around), since around 1988/89. About 12-13 years....

Nome Alaska, where it's so cold, even a 386 runs well... Although, it's not as cold as Kotzebue...

Is that a record yet?

It has had components replaced - went from the old Adaptec AHA-1542 (not A, not B, not C - but original) to I think the last was a CF (with floppy controller - none on motherboard). And I think the last HD upgrade was to a refurbished 500MB unit...

Guyver

[This message has been edited by Guyver (edited 24 April 2001).]

[Jammrock]

I have NEVER had an OS on my computer for more than 6 months. Even if it's running stable I still re-install the OS on occasion. Sometimes out of boredom, sometimes because I want to see if I can squeeze out some extra performance. Often times it's because of new hardware, but I'm nuts like that.

Jammrock - Record holder for the fastest OS install ever!

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Athlon 650
256 MB PC133 CAS3 from Crucial
87 GB storage from WD & IBM
Matrox G400 (it's not dead yet!)
SB Live! the original full retail, still going strong
Klipsch ProMedia v.2-400, the PC speakers that goes BOOM!
Hope Matrox releases the G800 before rebuild time, becuase the end is near!

[SteveC]

You just know you re-install windows too often when you can remember the win98se product key (as well as NT and win95's). Sad I know I haven't remembered winme's yet though...

Alright - cbman, I'm hijacking this thread -

How long is the longest you've run a PC without rebooting it?

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[xortam]

I used to be able to run NetWare for years without rebooting, but now they shut off the power on us every other day (living in California).

[Technoid]

At work we have a computer thats running a 3dmark2000 demo...

To make it run continuesly without anyone tuching it, I have set it to reboot every hour!

I hated that computers guts untill i tracked it's problems down to 3dmark itself

It will run 24 hours a run with other demos but they doesnet look as good as 3dmark 2000!

[cbman]

That winMe I had goin for the 5 months went two of those without a reboot (I was working lots and Nikki didn't use it hardly) so it was sleeping for most of it)

I should have called it sleeping ugly instead of beast

Edit: I put in the wrong numbers... Duh

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Canadian... Hell Ya!!!

[This message has been edited by cbman (edited 26 April 2001).]

[Technoid]

It has died!

My age old w2k instalation who has lasted several motherbords, hdds, cpus and such had its final demise!

It's dead!

IThis thread was far down the line