Re: Lesson learned
  By: Sean Dennis to All on Tue Jun 01 2021 08:38 pm

 > 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
 > 
 > ... Do you remember when Coke was sipped not sniffed?

Too bad you didn't get it to work.

I source most of my computers from a second hand dealer. You can have some
Optiplex computers for 30 bucks the piece. I even get my computers for work
there. More often than not they work, and if they don't, I am off only 30 bucks
:-)

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