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Sorry for the mood whiplash in my last post, just now realized that this is supposed to be a "happy" thread. Anyway, congratulations! I have a four year old sister, myself. By "rarer" in terms of snowfall I mean it's much higher than usual. Tack that onto the wind carrying it all over the...

Congratulations! I can't say I share your sentiment regarding snow though - - hate it with a passion. It makes me go to school into June, which is a big no no for me. That and add on the fact that it's A.) cold, B.) windy, and C.) one of the rarer years here in terms of snowfall (Grandparents...

I installed UT99 on my AXP, its normal routine for my systems. It's GUI runs dreadfully slow, I can't even start a game. I can literally wait tens of seconds for the mouse to move. I could see this happening on a Pentium 133, but on an Athlon XP with a GeForce2 MX card that worked perfectly...

Y'see, this is why I use AdBlock Plus. I hate ads, they ruin my browsing experience. Also, both Yahoo! and Gmail both have a HTML option, don't they?

Dad, my little sister and I are all allergic to cats, so cats are a no-go around here. I do so love me some cute kitties though. And no, that is not a double-entendre.

You know, the sad thing is that I know what that whole "I have a bridge to sell you" joke is all about, though it is long before my time. I honestly wasn't expecting too much, coming from Amazon, I just expected it to work, which it does, beautifully.

My 80 GB WD800 PATA HDD that is in my AXP has some interesting Power-on data. Granted, it has not been on for anywhere near as long as my 250 GB in my old Inspiron 530, but for a "new" drive (I bought it "New" from Amazon some 6 months ago). I have not by any means used that drive for 1015 days...

Well 98SE was short-lived. I liked its raw speed, but XP is infinitely more useful. In any case, I'd like the extra RAM but it's no requirement. Also, it can be PC2700 as well - DDR-333 that is (I've always been a little lysdexic regarding translating different notations). I figured out that it...

Did some lurking... You live (or lived, at some point) in or near Lansing? That's just over an hour and a half away from where I am.

D is for lysdexia... I make the same mistake all the time. Usually I notice and correct them, but sometimes things slip.

The thing is, he was using a school computer - - he's not exactly barred from making another account with a different e-mail at home or on his phone, is he?

I now have a definite username: TheOneWhoSpeaksTheTruth88.

Some people just saw me on here at school and decided they need to be on here too - - only not for any good reason. They're making accts as I speak. I'm sorry! I won't be on here at school again! I promise!

I found what I was looking for: a Sound Blaster Live! value. CT4780. Even has drivers for Win98SE! And also, I don't need the RAM anymore - - I don't trust 98SE with more than 1 GB, even though it is patched. 1 GB runs Lubuntu fine. I run 98SE for my old games and Windows applications. I use...

Same as title: I'm looking for some sort of PCI sound card and some ddr-400 ram, specifically in a 2 x 1 gb dimm set. My AXP has only 512 MB and its current onboard sound has died. I need this as cheap as possible.

Meanwhile, my AXP just needs more RAM and a discrete sound board (onboard one died) and it's golden. I might just decide to switch my little sister again. After posting in the for sale/trade section about the sound board, and 2 x 1 GB ddr-400 dimms if anyone has them.

I will say that I probably should've seen this coming, seeing as how it was sold right in that era of Dell computers being struck with bad caps. My board has a couple caps next to the processor corroded over, and one directly below it bulging. I should be thankful the board still boots. I'm...

Fine then. Nevermind.

If I can figure out how much shipping would be I might be able to piece together funds. From where you are to ~ mid-Michigan, how much do you think it'd be?

This makes me wish I had money to pay shipping. I could use that CPU as an upgrade over my T4300. That is, provided my CPU is actually in a socket.

Humorous afternote: I just looked at the mouse again and it's up to... wait for it... $35. Wow.

Lawd that's a cheap mobo. I thought for a relatively recent one you would be talking something like anywhere from $100 to $150 on the shallow end.

Never mind, found the answer to my question. Thought for some reason that CougTek's post above me was the only one... I need to either go to bed or start paying attention to my scrollbar.

Well, it is 6 TB... Still, at $800 for one unit isn't it more economical to buy 6 1 TB models and RAID them together? Provided you've got the room in the case, of course? What's so special about it being filled with helium, exactly? Are they noticeably faster or more reliable than their normal...

The whole "buying" thing is a bit of a problem. I'll be looking at getting a summer job, but I'm not holding my breath.

I am using a scratched-to-crap Dell SE198WFP 19". Max res is 1440x900. Of course, I mainly use the laptop, as it's more powerful than the rinky-dink old Pentium 4. It's display is at 1366x768. Good enough for what I do, but I don't like buying things that aren't future proof. Also, as I said...

Okay, following Chewy's advise, I will put a hypothetical price bracket on for size. Let's say I have about $450 to spend on a box. Would an A8 be a good choice? Would I have enough left over to put a half decent SSD in there so I don't die waiting for Windows or whatever else to boot? Also, for...

I don't mean the computers will fix themselves, I meant that they are being replaced with tablets! I am pretty good with a PC if I do say so myself, but put a clumsy touch interface on it and I'm a goner.

I originally mentioned this in my Windows 8 on early Pentium 4 topic but... How cheap do you think I could get an i3 based system for? I looked on Newegg... I'm actually leaning more toward an A8-5600K. Attractive price, considering my almost nonexistent budget. I don't currently have this...

Jeez I really need to lurk moar before posting. I answered my own question last year. Nope, Nawp, Nerp, no NX support. I am HOT. Out of curiosity, would an Athlon XP 3k+ run 8? I'm guessing no, but considering AMD was way ahead of Intel in that time period... Also, how low of a price do you...

I don't know, the PC industry keeps going where I think it is, I may find myself out of a potential job. I'm not even remotely useful for manual labor. I am nowhere near as useful with a tablet or smartphone as I am with a true PC. By the way, I read somewhere that a touchscreen that emits...

I just tried 8 on my GX270 on a whim, and, oh my no. Same error code, 0x0(some more zeros, I lost count... don't quite know how many make up a hex address, is it 8?)5D, though shouldn't the Socket 478 P4s all support NX? Is it just Dell being stupid with their BIOS? I know for a fact-ish that...

Sounds like you guys all have a lot of money to blow. No offense, just an observation. You guys seem like giants with your i7's and GTX TITANS and HOLY CRAP 10 CORE XEONS. Meanwhile I'm running less than a Celeron G. Also, think my HDD is going, I can actually hear read and write noises from it...

^ Woah. Yeah, my worst mistake that was totally my fault would have to be frying a mobo because I used the wrong kind of power supply (regular ATX PSU on one of those older Dell mobos that used a differently wired ATX plug). In my defense, at the time, I didn't know Dell did those kinds of...

... Or not. At least, not right now. It's current release does not support Windows 7 yet, but it will in the next one. As it says, "stay tunned"!

Hmm. Good to know. You can bet that I'll be slapping in that GeForce2. Thanks for the protip!

What I've been trying to tell you is that I've been lurking everywhere for a better driver and I simply can't find one that will install. Also, if I had the money to upgrade the RAM in this machine do you think I'd still be fiddling with the i865 chipset instead of going with a cheap nvidia...

Er, the i110 might not have an ARM v7... it appears to have the same processor as an OG Galaxy S. Whatever that may be.

Dad gave me his old SCH-i110 to play around with. Eyeballing it, it seems about as powerful as my GTab - - about 1/2 a gig of RAM, ARM v7... My tablet's iteration is clocked slightly higher (1000 MHz vs 800 MHz). My question is, does anyone know of a Cyanogen package for it? They both originally...

Well, no... 7 in fact did NOT install proper drivers automatically, and any attempt to install any other driver was met with it falling back to the Standard VGA Adapter. The XP-in-compatibility-mode driver scales all the way to 1440 x 900, the max res of my SE198WFP. The only problem I've...

I got Windows 7 installed on my i865-based Optiplex GX270. Install was ugly (16 color VGA ahoy), res on install was huge (640 x 480 ahoy), but I found a Windows XP driver for it and installed it in compatibility mode, and it works. Still can't use aero, but nuts to that. On a Pentium 4 I'd just...

I just reinstalled 7 and it didn't install additional config software for the mouse. But if I unplug it and plug it back in, it probably will.

I never liked Apple, I was given a iPod touch for my 14th birthday and I traded it for my GTab the first chance I got. Which, by the way, I got KitKat on today... I am less than impressed. Web is loads less painfully slow (you used to be able to grab a cup of coffee, come back and it'd maybe be...

Yeah, those are things I don't like about Microsoft mice, but try a serial one! It doesn't have additional config software! I also like Logitech's unifying reciever. Makes it easier... when I have both a wireless keyboard and mouse.

^ I lol'd.

Jeez the editor's glitchy... I've noticed we've all been double posting more and more often recently...

I was messing with you :D Yeah, those UEFI types always throw me for a loop - - DEL or F12 or F2 just don't seem to work. Maybe a key combination? Either way, all the UEFI types I've fixed didn't need BIOS fiddling to be fixed. On the subject of UEFI, opinions on that in general? I think...

My grandma still uses it on her old P4 laptop (1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM). Holy carp. She says her PC is dead, and while she IS mostly correct, it'd run hella better if Avast wasn't hogging 98.4% of her RAM. Dad used to use it, I did too. Now we all know better and really don't use anything. None of us...

Aww... I could'a taken it off your hands...

Why didn't you put the SSD from the old laptop into the new? Hoping she won't notice the difference? :twistd: