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Pentium 3 PC

This was my final primary computer assembled from second-hand parts. It was replaced by the Pentium 4 PC in September 2004.

It was assembled from parts in 2002 or 2003. Everything in the initial specification except for the motherboard, CPU, RAM, ATX Case and PSU was carried over from the previous computer (the K6). I don't have any record of where the new parts came from; purchased second-hand from some place I presume, though not from trademe (not in my accounts history).

For nearly two years it was my primary computer used for school work, projects, and games. It traveled to a number of LAN parties as was the style at the time, with the main games being CounterStrike Source, Unreal (with the Serpentine mod), Unreal Tournament and Total Annihilation.

Specifications

At some point after it was retired the 20GB hard disk was moved elsewhere, and it received in its place a pair of 10GB hard disks (one in a swap-rack thing). It also got a newer nicer iCute case along with the Asus CD-ROM drive and better power supply that were already in that case when I received it, bringing it to its current configuration. Given the iCute case seems to have been released sometime around 2004/2005, I'd guess it was probably transplanted to its current case sometime around 2006/2007 when the current operating systems were installed.

After it was retired from daily use it did continue to see some occasional use. It was given a fresh install of Windows XP Pro at 8:25pm on 4 September 2005 on the Seagate drive which was used occasionally over the following two years with its last session booted at 12:50pm on 15 December 2007 and shutdown at 3:39:58pm on the same day.

In 2007 it was also given an install of Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on the WDC hard disk which seemed to get a little use during that year. Its last fsck was on 2007-05-18 and its last boot before being placed into storage was at 21:14 on 2 August 2007.

Current State

In late 2024 it was pulled from storage and on the 14th of December dismantled, cleaned, tested and inventoried as COMP-0015. It still retains the previous installs of Windows XP and Kubuntu 7.04 and may be used in the future for late 90s/early 2000s gaming.

Current Issues

This machine has the following issues waiting to be resolved:

• The CyberDrive CDRW unit needs its tray eject belt replaced (tray doesn't eject or return on its own)

Inventory Data

This is a subset of the hardware inventory record for this computer. It may be more up-to-date than the rest of this page.

Main computer from some time early 2003 to September 2004. 
Some parts were inherited from the previous main computer ("K6").