Notes on PC 20

February 2005

Brought to Curacao by N8BJQ.

November 2005

Sends -. . and stops – no video. The hard drive in this machine is making an unusual amount of high pitched noise. Swapped in a known good hard drive and system started OK. Replaced original PC20 hard drive and it worked OK after being handled. Drive is making a high pitched noise and will need to be replaced soon. New drive on order. In East closet on ready reserve.

Unknown

Placed in service at Station # 1 and worked perfectly for a couple of years.

10 February 2009

Moved to Station # 4 to replace bad machine there. Still working fine. (Moved because we put a new XP machine at Station # 1.)

28 March 2009

PC froze several times during WPX SSB. Reseated RAM and video cards and it seemed better.

19 October 2009

Would not start. Installed new power supply from inventory and all seems to work fine.

23 October 2009

Has no sound card, only main board sound card, but no mic gain. Therefore voice keyer will not work with this machine.

9 February 2010

Would not network. Installed NIC from spare parts machine PC8 and it still would not network. Got a message that op sys files may be missing. This PC is 100% except for no network. Can probably be fixed. Removed from Station 4 service.

24 October 2010

Taken out of closet and tried at Station 4. Still will not network.

7 February 2014

No video. Seems to try to boot. Junked this date.