Hi everyone,

I spent an hour or so tonight learning something: do not buy computers with
Broadcom chips in them if you want to use anything other than Windows on it.

I am using a little HP Z210 workstation with a little i3 and formerly 4GB of
RAM with a 500GB HD.  I also have a HP EliteDesk 705 SFF (i7, 8GB RAM, 1TB
HD).  I decided to swap out the hard drives between computers.  It's worked
before: since Linux runs completely in RAM, I've successfully moved the same
Linux install between computers with ease.

Not this time.

This time, the EliteDesk didn't have any network.  Even after searching on
my phone and Google and putting in the right driver (tg3), it didn't work. 
I spent a good 30 minutes going around Google, doing this and that, without
any success.

So I gave up.

I looked in a box of various computer-y parts and things that I brought with
me to the apartment and I found a 4GB stick of RAM that would fit in the
EliteDesk.  I then swapped the 8GB of RAM for that 4GB stick in the
EliteDesk and stuck that 8GB into the Z210.

The Z210 is working great ... better than before.  It's definitely breathing
easier when I watch a stream on Twitch via Chrome and do other work.

Lesson learned: be a lot more picky about buying computer equipment. 
Generally, if I stick to mainstream Intel stuff, I'm pretty good, like this
Z210 is all Intel.

Sure, I wasted a few hours but really gets me is having a computer I can't
use ... I paid $250 for that EliteDesk and it works nicely with Windows ...
but you can't use anything else on it.

I think I might give it to one of my parents if they will have it.  If not,
I might sell it and get me a Z800 workstation off of eBay.  Those Z800s are
monsters but they are built like tanks.

Later,
Sean

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