Introduce Yourself

[Dirk Broer]

Hello Mattio,

My first AMD CPU was a 386SX-25, soldered onto the mainboard. It was in my possesion until very recently, when my girlfriend urged me to throw at least something away in order to get space to stack more computer junk. I also have a AMD 486DX-5 133, still functioning in an IBM PS/2 model 95, and an AMD K6III-400 in a super-7 DFI mobo. I do most of my crunching on Athlon XPs, Pentium-4s which people donate me for free in order to get rid of them (one of them with a HD4770), an Intel C2Q8200 with a nVidia GTX260 and a Athlon64 3200 with a AGP HD3850. To prevent a wallet-killing power bill I do not have all my 20+ systems running at the same time....in fact most of them are set up as museum relics.
At present you get the most out of an Ati/AMD GPU by letting it run MilkyWay, DNETC or Collatz, while nVidia gives you stellar PrimeGrid performance

[mattio79]

Hello Mattio,

My first AMD CPU was a 386SX-25, soldered onto the mainboard. It was in my possesion until very recently, when my girlfriend urged me to throw at least something away in order to get space to stack more computer junk. I also have a AMD 486DX-5 133, still functioning in an IBM PS/2 model 95, and an AMD K6III-400 in a super-7 DFI mobo. I do most of my crunching on Athlon XPs, Pentium-4s which people donate me for free in order to get rid of them (one of them with a HD4770), an Intel C2Q8200 with a nVidia GTX260 and a Athlon64 3200 with a AGP HD3850. To prevent a wallet-killing power bill I do not have all my 20+ systems running at the same time....in fact most of them are set up as museum relics.
At present you get the most out of an Ati/AMD GPU by letting it run MilkyWay, DNETC or Collatz, while nVidia gives you stellar PrimeGrid performance

my cpus, in approximate chronological order: intel 286-16/20, 386-33, 486 sx 33, 486dx66, 486 dx2 100, amd 5x86-133, intel pentium 75, then 90, pentium 150, mmx166, mmx233, amd k5-133 k6-200, 266, k6II-366, 400, 533 and 550, Duron 800, athlon xp 1700+, xp 2400, xp 2600 toroughbred barton 2800, barton 3200, Athlon64 3500, athlon64 x2 4000, althlon64x2 5000 Black edition, and currently athlon64 x2 6000 windsor. i will be later purchasing a Thuban 1090 or 1100T black edition alongside a 6950 or 6970 running on an AMD 880 chipset.

[mattio79]

my cpus, in approximate chronological order: intel 286-16/20, 386-33, 486 sx 33, 486dx66, 486 dx2 100, amd 5x86-133, intel pentium 75, then 90, pentium 150, mmx166, mmx233, amd k5-133 k6-200, 266, k6II-366, 400, 533 and 550, Duron 800, athlon xp 1700+, xp 2400, xp 2600 toroughbred barton 2800, barton 3200, Athlon64 3500, athlon64 x2 4000, althlon64x2 5000 Black edition, and currently athlon64 x2 6000 windsor. i will be later purchasing a Thuban 1090 or 1100T black edition alongside a 6950 or 6970 running on an AMD 880 chipset.

i still have the xp2400

[YellowBronco]

im dan, yellowbronco,ret, submarines after 20 yrs, now i punch keys in my garage, ive destroyed 7 computers this wk, dont know how, i had vista on my amd64 and decided to walk on the wild side and install ubuntu on top of it, well it didnt work, i now know that linux and amd dont like one another,,, well im just trying to get her back up, her name is Sully shes running xp now, amd athlon board, thermaltake and a ssd, 6g r, i lost alot of memory withthe switches, but after a wk of no sleep she runs,,, yeaa!
but now i cant get her on line, im working on an old dell optilex now,,, bought a bunch of them for $4 each for the kids, and a couple of frankinstines im piecing together, o, i tried putting ubuntu on my hp amd64 x2 laptop too at the same time, dumb,,,its still down, i name all the computers after cartoon caricters, wall-e is a gx1 case , with a gx360 board, this ones popeye, then woodie is the 64 laptop, and ive got marvin, alice, donald, i lost snow white to the doner parts, anyway, if anyone knows how to install the ethernet controler on the msi k9agm3, with amd64x2 5000+ pros. i could get online with my baby, thanks for the forum , keep hackin! dan

[AMDave]

Welcome to the AMD Users forum, YellowBronco!

Your naming policy beats mine hands down.
I'm boring myself to tears with incremental numbers.
But I'm sticking with it like the persistent and stubborn sod that I am. LOL

Sorry to read that you have been having issues with a linux distro on those machines.
I have been running linux on AMD hardware for more years than I should like to count aloud :P so, among others, I should be able to come up with some constructive advice.
If you like you can kick off a thread in our Linux discussions forum so we can get to grips with your issues if you still want to pursue it as a solution.
(out of thread recommendation - stick with Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10 at max and use the release called 'alternative' not 'desktop' - happy to discuss further in the other forum)

If you are sure about the stability of the power supply in your garage and it's not power-supply-units that have been failing then we would need more info to help you figure out what the main problem is there.
There are members who have had similar experiences who could help you with the hardware that you have on-hand.
I'd recommend posting in our hardware forum if you would like some help or advice from like-minded members who I'm sure would respond.

Looking forward to your posts in our forums.

[Nflight]

YellowBronco <= That is a really interesting namesake you have taken. I like it There are several retired Navy, Marines and other affiliated Corp Members who are all crunching data like yourself. I am not going to name names but I will contact those I know off hand and have them read the post you made. AMDave is a linux maestro in Ubunto and we have another Linux master in mepis another distro of linux. Between the two of them there is nothing Linux that won't fit on an AMD system.
Welcome to the Team there YellowBronco

[AMDave]

Between the two of them there is nothing Linux that won't fit on an AMD system.

You might overstate my abilities, but then I used a (working) Linux AMD box as a seat for a while, so I can vouch that my Linux-warmed-a$$ fits on an AMD system. HAHAHA

[Steve Lux]

Welcome to the AMD Users team YellowBronco (Dan). I am also an ex submariner. USS J. C. Calhoun (Boomer) 630 gold crew from '79 - '83, where I was a Nuclear Missile Tech.

One of my systems is an 8-core AMD system http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?p...03317d9b0509e5 running on Ubuntu (2.6.38-8-generic) with a SS drive. Doesn't seem to have any significant problems. I have had one failed Einstein@Home work unit computation so far, but that isn't enough to be significant. Now, if I can find the newest nVidia boards for sale somewhere I just might pop a few in there and see some real crunching. (Also if I can talk myself into dropping that much for two of them - UGH!).

[NeoGen]

Hi there YellowBronco!

I'm currently the only portuguese guy in these forums that I know of, but even I am living in the beautiful town on North Little Rock, in Arkansas, and crunching for the Team with whatever I can get my hands on, be it Intel or AMD. Nvidia or ATI.
I work at Heifer International, which very few people know about but it's a non-profit organization dedicated to end world hunger.
Well, hope you come by often, new things pop up all the time around here. Make yourself at home. I won't be able to help you with Linux though, because I never had to work with it in my life. I'm pretty much a Windows guy all around.

[Tamaster]

Permission granted to come aboard YellowBronco!

<- NAVY FOREVER.

I also count among the crew here as a Linux expert, having been fully submerged since '96 and a former Silicon Valley LUG member. I 'bump-steered' through more than a few system "demises" myself on the way, so you should know that I feel you pain. As far as UBUNTU is concerned (it's what I run as well) I always go for the LTS releases as they are more stable. As I write this, I'm on a X2 5600+ with HD 4850 ridin' an MSI-7309 (nVidia chipset) running Kubuntu 10.04.1 LTS (my lab machine). About the only machine that I haven't got Linux on (yet) is an early PowerPC MAC Mini that I use for streaming MP3s on my network (which is running OSX, a BSD variant).

Don't give up too soon. Keep Crunchin'