Compaq finally failed

Well I have been running an experiment for the last year and half running outside a Compaq slim line computer in a protected shelled. Yes through winter, spring, summer and fall. It has been a wonderful device surviving extreme cold temperature and extreme hot temperature. Yesterday it finally gave up. It boots up partly and I got an "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000001f1." Now the unit started to overheat and I think the ram may be gone but Geez this was my very first MeshAP! I paid $35 dollars for the box, $75 dollars for the radio card and $49 dollars for the pigtail and antenna. The box is worthless but the radio card antenna and pigtail are still operational!

For under $200 dollars Canadian this baby worked outside! The problem was the board was already 5 years old and it was on it's last life. The test is inconclusive as I did not put any bench marks. The idea was to observe.

I running mini-itx boards today and I have many in outside. So far I haven't had any hardware failures.