The office

The office is in Home Farm (HF/004).

Hardware

We used to have Macs but as of January 2020 they were replaced by a YuFund grant with PC SPECIALIST Vortex GR Models. Specs as follows:

Item	Details
Case	CM Masterbox MB600L
Case Logo	PCSpecialist
Processor	Intel Core i5-9400F
Memory	8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2400MHz (2x4GB)
Motherboard	ASUS H310-PLUS R2.0
Wireless	802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E Card
SSD	240GB ADATA SU630
HDD	1TB Seagate Barracuda 3.5”
Power Supply	CORSAIR 350W-VS
Grapics Card	4GB Nvidia GTX 1650

We paid £688.91 each for them.

Networking

Hostname	Location	MAC Address
nousepc8.york.ac.uk	Not in use	04-D9-F5-F2-D6-10
nousepc9.york.ac.uk	Right hand side next to window desk	04-D9-F5-F2-D8-2D
nousepc10.york.ac.uk	Right hand side facing windows	04-D9-F5-F2-D8-31
nousepc11.york.ac.uk	Left hand side next to window desk	04-D9-F5-F2-D8-37
nousepc12.york.ac.uk	Not in use	04-D9-F5-F2-D8-15
nousepc13.york.ac.uk	Left hand side facing windows	00-23-81-54-83-E1

All 5 machines are registered in the IT Services landb (Mice and Men) and should be acquiring IP addresses through DHCP. In cases where machines are moved and fail to get leased a new IP this is often due to an issue with the multi-lan ports used by IT Services. Often unplugging and replugging the switch is enough to get the problem machine working (even if it is not now connected to the switch due to how multi-ports are allocated and released).

Setting up a new machine

1. Uninstall bloatware
2. Add new User account - “Nouse Admin”
3. Connect to university network
4. Rename HDD “Storage HDD”
5. Set Nouse Admin password
6. Change taskbar/start menu setup
7. Map network drive - N: Nouse Drive
8. Install Indesign/Photoshop
9. Install Filezilla
10. Set a Desktop Background

Software

They each run Adobe Indesign - this is handled by YUSU’s IT coordinator so get in touch with them if there’s any issues

Printing

There is a Canon laser printer sat by the window - it’s setup for the computer nearest it to print.