I've just been enlightened!

[gizmo]

Hi Cleanteam

Thanks for the link.
I am using the old 'puter tonight but next time I'm online with the new toy I will try it. It looks like just what I am after.
You are a gem.

Thanks again

Chris.

 

[DADoES]

The system I'm using right now, at one of the offices, I built about 8 years ago. It's OLD. Asus mobo. SCSI drives. Dual-processor 233 Mhz Pentium III. Win NT 4. But it has been a workhorse and stable as a rock.

My PC (the one I use at home, out of 15 others spread among two offices) crashed-and-burned last Sunday afternoon. The power supply fan had been 'sticky' for months. If turned off long enough to cool down, it'd not want to get running unless I gave it a poke. Wasn't a problem being as I never turn the thing off except during an extended power outage. I *knew* about the situation, kept putting off changing the power supply or rigging up an alternate fan. Apparently it got completely stuck, the power supply overheated, and took the motherboard and CD burner with it. D-e-a-d. Although I know better, I had not been doing daily backups (I have a tape drive). The tape drive had gone out months ago, and I'd disabled the backup scheduler. I replaced the drive, did an ad-hoc full backup of the C drive (but not the J partition) in February, but didn't turn the daily scheduler back on. By Sheer Luck the hard drive is OK so I slaved to the new system. The tape drive and SCSI card are OK, DVD burner, and modem.

Back up your computer now and keep it backed up regularly -- daily if you use it for finances -- using some choice of media that holds the data separately and off the system -- tape, CD, DVD, external hard drive, whatever works for you. It does no good to keep backup copies of files on the local hard drive if the drive gets zapped.

The new system is an AMD something or other. 4.3 Ghz? I don't even know. I don't have time to build a system these days, so I told the computer store in the room across from my desk, gimme one of what you got. They build 'em in-house. Gigabyte mobo. 1 GB RAM. 160 GB hard. DVD burner. Monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, I already had. I added the original hard drive, tape & SCSI card, DVD burner, & modem this evening. Windows 2000 Pro. I do not care for XP.

 

[cleanteamofny]

Brought back from the dead!

I had problems before I took sick back in 2011/2012 and now it's up and running with Windows 10, story to follow when I get some rest....

 

[petek]

Talk about a necro-thread.. 2006..  10 years  LOL   

 

Where's Bethann now? 

 

[kb0nes]

We are only 4 Windows OS versions newer at this point lol

 

[duke]

Which one do you prefer phil??LOL

 

[cleanteamofny]

10 years is a long time and many changes in life been made!

So many things in life causes thing to be put off and that day finally came to fix the ole boy. When I built this PC back in 2006, this PC was near a screamer in speed for that day and Window XP arrived which was way better than Win. 98Se. ME came around and I've blew by that upgrade due to the fact it was nothing but eye candy. XP rolled in and liked it very much and Vista was just OK and lagging in performance, but very easy to navigate.

Now the death of my dad in 2007 forced my family to make housing changes and I've relocate to Monroe, NY. In 2010, I was down loading a Windows hotfix and the system was hanging so I made a rookie move and I've shut the PC down and rebooted to a black screen. Man-o-man, I just hit the crapper because of that and then I took sick in 2011/12 so there was no time to deal with this gem...

So this weekend I've done a non-sleep marathon to work on this beast.
I've started Saturday morning when I got off work, 11pm-7am was my work shift, had B.fast then jumped the CMOS jumper and cleared the memory.
Great, a fresh start with the display screen viewing, then I've tried to update Vista and it was a no go, Windows IE is the life of the operating system and the security was on locked down, whatta man to do?

Go and get Windows 10 and start fresh, oh the Joy!

Windows 10 on a USB stick that was not fun to attempt to install and upgrade.
Now I'm stuck between the digital crushing walls looking for a solution, Searched the web and found one, Windows 10 will not install via USB unless one of Win 7, 8, or 8.1 was on the system and lucky me had a copy of win 7 in my possessions. Installed that, looked for updates then installed Windows 10 via USB and we are in business!
Now I have to work 7am-3pm Sunday, then back to work at 11pm to 7am for Monday so the body is tired but hey, this is what I enjoy doing!

Windows 10 looks great on this old PC and the speed are fantastic compared to my low grade basic laptop with Windows 10!

Thermaltake Tsunami Case
750 watts Thermaltake Power Supply
A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard 939 socket
AMD FX-60 CPU
Zalman Cooling 2 Ball CPU Fan
4 150 Western Digital Raptor Hard Drives 10,000 RPM
4 patriot 1GB DDR 400 SDRAM
LG blu-ray disk burner
HP Burner DVD
Creative Lab Sound Blaster X-FI SB0460