The stuff people throw away
A few months ago, I came across a box that someone had left outside a house in our street, just dumped along with the trash (It was raining so I figured they really didn't want it, that and the fact that the monitor was sitting in the trash can!). I took it home and a few weeks ago, I fired it up. It's a Dell Optiplex GX1 with a PII 333, 320 Mb and 15+6 gig drives: chassis serial number NMHT9. Thing is, it doesn't have the 'expansion card cage' with which it was fitted. I've tried to find one, but have so far drawn a blank. So this is a long shot - does anyone know of an expansion card cage for said pc that just happens to be kicking around?!
It came with a 3Com 3C918 Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (3C905B-TX Compatible) network interface, so I can link it to my current box, but only using a CAT 5 crossover cable. Whenever I try to connect using my Netgear EN104TP hub, it doesn't want to play! This, despite using the correct cabling. So, I'd like to try another NIC, but can't because there's no expansion card cage in which to fix one. I'm happy to pay for a cage and for postage. The Dell is running Win 2k Advanced Server - perhaps there is a simpler way to fix this problem?
