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I wish we had the same setup as eMachines do. The option of installing with or without formating.
Compaq = format no questions asked other that DO You WANT TO RESTORE as you will lose all data on the harddrive.
DrMDJ
Thank you for the info.
Guess who has email. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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[This message has been edited by Train (edited 09-10-2001).]
Thanks Train...I wasn't sure if it was a wives' tale or not about the restore disc. Seems like a pretty strange way to do things. No wonder they had to sell out. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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If you think Compaq is goofy, I hope you get the pleasure of watching someone try to restore a IBM Aptiva. A 2 hour riot of gut busting. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Train... my son married a gal with an Aptiva, guess who got to fix it! ;-) The laugh riot was shortened considerably, as I replaced the modem/soundcard combo and harddrive and didn't use the recovery disk... was almost a real computer when I got done with it!
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The one I watched was under warranty. IBM was on the phone telling her how to do it.
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Yeah, when having to follow warranty rules it can be quite an adventure...
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"Upgraded" my brother-in-law's Aptiva a few months ago. The Library of Congress is adding an additional chapter to the book "Profiles In Courage". Finally wrestled the freakin' riser card out of the thing and it had a label under it that said: "There now...aren't you glad this isn't a Compaq?"
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here it is the first post with the athlon ghz screamer.....I have a litte more configging to do but it is all together and working fine...
Sarrkazztic, so how about a parts list. Give us the skinny on the screamer.
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Got a Presario 1½ years ago, incl. a restore CD. I still haven't quite figured out (not that I've tried that hard..) how it works. Click one of these icons...and nothing happens, select one of these items...once again nothing happens.
It pains me, though, that you can't really change anything (fx. install a card) without loosing the restore ability.
Of course installing a card means the restore woon't cover it all, but I could live with having to do a restore and then reinstalling the my own additions afterwards.....sad story. Why can they not construct the restore so it restores whatever it can (drivers)...?
Fortunately the Win98SE installation files were found in the options/cabs folder so a clean install can be made.
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Yes the recovery disk. I do have to say there is one thing and only one thing about HP's recovery disk. You can Recover without Formatting.
But even on Compaq's, you can do it. If you have the Cab files on the Partition, just click on the Setup file and it should restore it....
Good Morning All, The repaired and upgraded Compaq Presario continues operating extremely well. Funny though, I look at it and think of all of you that had an input to help me fix it. Thanks again. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Overall, the screen looks sharper, crisper, and cleaner. The operation is noticeably smoother. The mouse is a joy to use and the processing is vastly improved. You click on the mouse and "it" is there - no delay. Can't wait to get the rest of the components in for BT.
Spent last night setting up files and downloading "stuff". Lot more to do in this area. Been trying to keep both Emails emptied out but a lot of info coming in right now from some of you. It's called "information overload". I love it.
Bistro, To keep from cutting your hands on cases, I have found that a pair of welders gloves works very well when you're inside the case. Now if you believe that, I have .... https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
DrMDJ, Can't wait to try the recovery process on the old harddrive.
JTdoom, the 241KB file you sent came in scrambled. Could you resend those favorite in a self extracting zip data file if it's not to much trouble.
Sarkazztic, Could you repost your specs on your new computer please?
OK, where's Daizy at? Anybody hear tell of her lately? Probably lurking. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Real interesting, my computer goes down and comes back up and the computer at work is still down and we are working manually. (Buy paper stocks people. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ ) This indicates to me that there is a difference in who you call to help get you back up. LOL Later
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The parts list for the Screamer are as follows....
ECS K7VZA version 3.0 bios version 3.2e mobo
Athlon 200mhz fsb processor
32mb savage 4 video card
maxtor 20gb hard drive
western digital 10 gb hard drive
hp 8100 cdrwriter plus
pioneer 16x dvd rom
300w p/s
cooler master hsf
3x3 case fan
80mm fan blowin out high under p/s
slot fan under video card
Netgear 10/100 nic
Win2k pro
Tiger electronics pro 33 case with ceramic motherboard plate.....so far no problems whatsoever....I purchased mobo/cpu combo from cyberdreamz with pricing from pricewatch.com cyberdreamz preassembled motherboard and cpu and tested both before shipping...this is a first for me the other pricewatch companies I have dealt with have not pre tested any boards or cpus I have purchased....I will keep you all posted as I go about loading all my programs on tonight.
Hiya greengoose1!
I'm still here. Running back and forth to the tv as this horrendous tragedy unfolds.
Can't begin to tell you how happy I am that you've got your computer up and going. Can hardly wait for the building to begin on your new one.
I'll be sending your bookmarks shortly....by the end of the day for sure.
Daizy
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Bistro posted on 98 that he was ok but things were hopping.
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hi,
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mesasage posted by DrMDj,
Train,
This was a Western Digital drive he got (has) right? The WDC drives have a jumper on the back that limits the size that the bios (or anything else) sees to 32 gig. The reason I asked about the jumper being set was because in my experience it is best to set this jumper if the drive is in fact going to be used as a 32 gig. If the bios is just given parameters equivalent to 32 gig I've found this can be a potential problem (or lead to one). The reason is that while the bios may be content to think of (treat) the drive as 32 gig, other software, including windows, may not.
Nowadays Windows, and other software running under it, most often bypass the bios for querying info or reading and writing to a drive. They communicate directly with the drive. Granted,the drive here is partitioned to 32 gig. But the possibility exists for Windows or some othe software to see the full capacity of the drive. As a safeguard, the jumper should be set so that everyone can only see that drive as a 32 gig (cause the drive won't let it see more).
Let me add one small consideration to this. If one was to later try use the drive in a newer machine, the minute you hook it up and boot, it would be properly recognised and one would not see any data on it.
That's one hell of a good reason to use the jumper.
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I just heard, and saw some of the news.
WTC, pentagon, other places.
cannot describe my feelings.
empathic
my condolences to people and country.
angry,
what's the world turned into?
won't we ever learn?
silent, oh lord...
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jtdoom and train https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
You're doing it to me again. Could you please dummy down your last couple of posts so I can understand them? I realize it must be very hard to say it simpler......but as many times as I read it over...I get lost. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Daizy
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As you have read in these threads, the BIOS can limit the amount [size] of harddrive you can work with. The Compaqs that GG1 and I have, are limited to 32GB by the bios.
Now GG1 has put a 40gb harddrive in his Compaq which come to find out has a means to prevent a disaster. As both jtdoom and DrMDJ told us how to engage.
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Thank you kindly Train.
Daizy
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Evening All,
In my life time there have now been two days "of infamy". The first one as a very young boy who did not realize what our President was saying. And today, an incredibly far greater second one in terms of losses.
It is not my intention to start posts on this subject on this thread but to draw your attention to the 98 Forum where the administraters have let us post. If you haven't read it please do and post a thought if you wish. It helped uplift me by reading that thread that johnking started to realize by the posts from all over the world that we are not alone and others outside of this country have the same ideals as we do. Thank you.
Ok then, thanks for the post sarkazztic listing your components.
See Daizy, you can get a simple answer. Ya gotta ask some of the computer heads, but humor them because they can help you make a quantum leap in knowledge. Well most people, it takes at least five of them on a regular basis to get through to me. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
This computer is running smoothly still in our third day of operation. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Well, bought Maxtor ATA100 PCI Adapter card and Maxtor 30GB 7200 rpm harddrive. To late to start today. Sew, hopefully before Saturday morning it will all be in the Compaq and running. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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wise desicion, not going above 32 giga.
gg1 could do this too?
I mean, get a thirty, clone to thirty, remove forty,
run programs until satisfied the thirty acts well with the cloned data.
and only use wipe0ut on the forty when it is to be used in new monstermachine at a later date
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I'm probably a couple days late on this, but...
My girlfriend's folks have an Aptiva 433MHz Celeron. Their excuse for buying it is that they needed one ASAP and didn't have time to shop. Reality = they don't know a darn thing about computers. It has crapped out a couple of times, and her dad won't let me fix it. He just uses the ridiculous recovery disk every time! Same software problem 3 times now, and still won't let me put on Win98SE w/o all the IBM crap.
I also can't talk him out of AOL. A-frickin'-OL!!! He's afraid to change anything and would rather stick with slooooow, buggy crap than fix it up. I can't argue with him well because he speaks mainly Arabic and many of my points are lost on him.
It's very frustrating.
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Let us not forget, we were at that point at one time. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
I usually use something like, If you need any assistance just let me know.
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Jaak, I bought two 40Gb WD drives. One is going into BT. So, i need to go back and read your posts on this subject. Thanks for the heads up on the jumper.
The Case has been ordered, an In Win S500 mid size ATX.
Gathering everything up at the moment.
Bistro, can't email you, so I have to say I was sad to hear about your friends.
Repair job still holding up.
Thanks to all of you that have sent me "stuff". Have not had time to look at much due to having to work extra hours at work. Later. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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tewetzel,
many people on this board here can't make head nor tail from some of our/my posts, mainly because much of the computerese is like chinese-arabic-over-my-head-speak.
suppose one jumps in while the thread is old.
(like these are)
one jumps in, the questions already technical, the answers either go pedantically oversimplified, or become all-encompassing and elaborate dissertations.
geekspeak...
pa-in law must think you speak chinese...
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GG1,
I was thinking about 8 giga of wasted space...
I also have this funny feeling that creating an overlay on COMPAQ with their own bomide partition would be really HAIRY... (?if not impossible...?)
here is something I want you to test
create a start or boot floppy
copy chkdsk.exe to it
boot from it, and run
DIR C: /w /o /p
chkdsk C:
with luck, DOS will see the drive.
I have indeed seen a situation where a drive was added.
BUT, DOS did NOT see it.
Not even when booting from hard drive...
And yet, windows recognised it, and could do In-OUT action on it (windows booted off another Hard disk)
this is what the post by DrMDJ is also about...
you don't want to get into a situation where you cannot access data on the drive...
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Jaak, will try Saturday afternoon. Gotta run out of town in the morning. Looks interesting. Thanks. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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I had to go buy a more powerful heatsink and fan as the screamer was running a little hot. 50-60 degrees celcius....I bought a vantec cck-6035d sink with the delta 38cfm 7000 rpm fan and now I am between 32-40 degrees celcius under full load with sandras burn in wizard. Thinking about getting one of the inwin s500 cases if Frys has them tomorrow....Happy Friday all...well at least as happy as it can be in light of the situation in the world
Hi sarkazztic, The Fry's in the Dallas Ft. Worth metroplex didn't have them - the In Wins. Ended up buying over the internet. 35 + 8 for shipping. Watch your prices. Still going down on components. The components I'm buying for BT are a lot cheaper than they were 8 months ago or so. If anyone is going to build - now is the time. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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On the S500, check the powersupply wattage.
On the Compaq.
The Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 PCI Adapter Card was picked up immediately. GG1, there is your answer. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
The harddrive has a bad boot sector SU0013 did not work, so it is coming out and warranty time. Plus had a hard time getting it to write the Fat table. Mumble, mumble.
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Seen a ad for a 40GB and card for 140. So cast a eye about.
What surprised me, I kind of expected ps problems. NONE https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Train, we check the components for what they require for power, add them up, and wallah you have a rough guide for what you need in a power supply but what is a computer actually needing at any given moment? https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Train, Look at capabilities:Features:
Works with most UDMA100/66/33 devices
Up to 100MB/sec data transfer rates
Adds four ATA/100 ports
Onboard BIOS for auto-configuration
Dual independent channel PCI IDE bus master controller
Supports hard drives up to 128GB
Advanced CRC error-correction
Quick and easy installation
One-Year Warranty
System Requirements:
Available PCI expansion slot
Pentium class or higher PC
Windows 98
Windows Millennium
Windows NT 4.x SP4 or higher
Windows 2000
Included in the kit:
Ultra ATA/100 PCI Adapter Card
Ultra ATA/100 interface cable
Installation guide
Installation software
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I know https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Had to return the 40GB, would not boot up after the "windows is starting for First time" window. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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[This message has been edited by Train (edited 09-14-2001).]
train,
did you try the drive diagnostics tools?
you may have had mobo AV on...which could prevent altering boot record of drive.
Goose, in your situation, I would get a PCI controller, and redo the compaq.
this controller is not going to be wasted money, as it can be used in other machines as well, along with a properly set up drive.
one thing about them.
to boot from the PCI card, you have to set bios to boot from SCSI or bootrom
(modern machines may even mention hpt370, along nearly a dozen other devices. The epox has an enourmous listing...)
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ I'm surprised goose posts at all, he just got his hands full with a few bookmarks... https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Good Morning All,
Ordered the PCI card. Train, that litle item can handle up to 128GB. That means it could handle 2 60Gb HD. What wonderful over kill.
Jaak tried to over load me with favorites and such and it will take some time to go through but heck knowledge is the most important thing to gain.
With regards to BT. I don't know how long it will take for the components to arrive, but ther seems to be plenty of things to do here while we are waiting.
By the way for those of you reading for the first time, we are in the process of building the third "delta" computer. But if you have a comment or question do speak up. Oh yes, we've been known to have a little fun too. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Got to go out of town this morning. Be back later. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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[This message has been edited by greengoose1 (edited 09-15-2001).]
jaak
Thanks for the reminder.
But, after the lockup, I went back into fdisk and found that all the partitions in the extended were gone https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Talked to the tech were I bought it and his statement was ""Bring that silly thing back""
When I got to the store, No questions were asked, and from the managers reactions, it seems to be this was nothing new.
Seems to me GG1 just has to add the promise type card, and it will see the whole harddisk without any other work?
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