finally, we fixed the friggin’ cpu. stepped down the cpu speed to 1.2 instead of 1.6 in the BIOS and wham! instant gratification. so SuSE 9.3 is installed, i’ve put jeff’s 2nd stick of ram in there (which we’ll test tonight) to make a solid 1gb of ram, so the only thing we’re missing is a soundcard. the Creative Audigy that we had was keeping the machine from passing POST somehow. i’m going to try it again now that the CPU issues are solved, but i’m not holding my breath.

systems is willing to host the machine for a few weeks while we get it loaded up with roms, and it’ll be hooked up to the network during that time, to allow me to give it a hostname (rhythm-mame?) and get compiling on the stuff i need to do in order to get it running all the right software.

i have an old set (0.86 or 0.87) of roms that i like, but i could see getting a fresh set, just for fun. who knows? anyway, we’ll be moving right along soon :)

now, if i could just figure out a way to mount the keyboard and mouse in a hidden-yet-easily-accessible place…

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