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No idea what caused it, does look a bit like what happened in the past when you moved files around on NTFS drives, at some stage they got messed up so you had to copy the files to a FAT 32 drive which fixed it, can't remember the reason because of it but after that you can copy the files to your usual drive again and they would be fine.

I've got an old Athlon 64 Dual core machine which was living inside a huge ass Chiefteccase, since it is micro ATX I decided to take the stuff out, clean it and then cram it inside a really small Asus micro ATX casing.. ye gods, cable management was a struggle, PSU is an Antec Eartwatts 380, it came in a Antec HTPC casing, all leads are 15cm longer than those on a normal PSU so cable management was like fighting an octopus.. :cardie:
 
Installed Mint 19.1 Cinnamon on the old Athlon 64 x2, must say that it is working better than expexted, the CPU runs @2.5Ghz (Brisbane core 4800+) the machine has 4Gb DDR2 RAM a Geforce 9500 GT 1GB DDR2 and an ancient Samsung 200GB drive, it is about 11 years old now, used to be my main machine.
It was the first machine I had that ran XP... I think it is faster than the Sempron 145, might do some tests when I have the time.
 
Santaman said:
Installed Mint 19.1 Cinnamon on the old Athlon 64 x2, must say that it is working better than expexted, the CPU runs @2.5Ghz (Brisbane core 4800+) the machine has 4Gb DDR2 RAM a Geforce 9500 GT 1GB DDR2 and an ancient Samsung 200GB drive, it is about 11 years old now, used to be my main machine.
It was the first machine I had that ran XP... I think it is faster than the Sempron 145, might do some tests when I have the time.
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I've been tempted to try out Mint on my old laptop, though I know it's rather slower than that machine. (It'll certainly run some of the linux distros but I fancy trying some of the more heavy versions)
 
Santaman said:
For Mint 18.x or 19.x Cinnamon, which is IMO the best possible desktop UI you need a dual core and 4GB RAM, I've got it installed on a Sempron 145 with 8Gb but even that CPU struggles, I tried running it on a Sempron LE 1250 which is 2.2Ghz, single core with 4GB RAM and that machine was too slow, I think you could try these on your laptop:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXLE_Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubuntu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntiX
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Well, if AntiX doesn't, nothing will:D

I know I've currently got Win7 on that one and it's a bit on the slow side. Since I've posted, I've actually had a look and it has a 1.6 Turion and X1300 graphics card (though I've bumped up the HD side so that's not a problem) and I had 2gb memory in it.

If nothing else, it'll be fun experimenting:)
 
I managed to get Puppy Wary 5.something to run on a Pentium 133 with 64Mb RAM, it found all the hardware and it was able to perform all desktoppy tasks you want a computer to do, Wary isn't longer maintained though.
 
sometimes have to wonder what passes for tech support in this day and age.

Some of the work I do involves support of public POS terminals in fast food chain. They are managed through one company that passes the work down food chain when something does wrong.

I've had three calls this week for problems that could have been solved with a bit of common sense (though it was nice to make money).

Now I guess they don't want restaurant staff poking around inside too much (they do have to go in to change printer paper).

Two calls were simply a loose power cable going in the computer that drives the terminals (first I could see it was out as soon as I opened the unit). No power, no computer, no display.

The other was non-responsive printers and a simply power cycle on the printers fixed the issue.

Spent longer going through the sign-in/sign-out verified by restaurant manager than I did fixing the problem (5mins or 55mins I get a specific rate for the first hour)
 
In the past people who were involved with computers usually were enthusiasts or at least knowledgable..
Not the case anymore, almost would compare it with electricity, gas, water and internet, it has to be there, it is part of everyone's life but no one knows how it works except the professionals.
 
Santaman said:
In the past people who were involved with computers usually were enthusiasts or at least knowledgable..
Not the case anymore, almost would compare it with electricity, gas, water and internet, it has to be there, it is part of everyone's life but no one knows how it works except the professionals.
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you'd think there would be some basic trouble shooting though.

your tv, computer whatever doesn't turn on so what's the first thing you do? check the power?

printer doesn't print so you reset it.

Even my mother has mastered those basic skills.
 
Maybe it is the old "I didn't touch anything so not my fault/problem let someone else fix it." routine.
 
Fortunately I have missed out on the addon breaking bug. I don't know how but all mine are working as far as I can tell.
 
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