It's taken me awhile to start this thread, sorry. I know this may end up in flame wars. Again I am sorry.
So everyone knows my situation. Well those close to me on this site do. My computer is finally showing signs of how old it truly is. Keep in mind my computer has a Pentium 4 processor so I am guessing this setup to be almost ten years old. The problem, even after a few friends helped me here with a new hard drive and more memory, is the rest of the system. The processor can't keep up with the newer operating systems. I'm having a hard time just running XP. Found out the other day my DVD Burner drive is almost dead as it will read disc sometimes and other times it will not. Monitor is on it's last legs as well. Hard to read anything and the brightness is going out. It's an old CRT Dell monitor that is almost as old as the tower.
As Starkers had told you this computer is my main way to communicate with the things that are important in my life. So I was hoping someone out there had a few newer parts I could install to extend the life of the machine a bit. Nothing special. I already have DDR2 memory and a newer hard drive. Just need a few other things.
So carry on. Discuss I guess.
Yeah I might look into it. For now I want to finish off Yuri's Revenge. I've beat all of Generals including the expansion packs. I might try my hand at Generals again with a harder CPU setting. Might be interesting. Not sure if the tower will be here tomorrow, last check said Wednesday.
I'm glad to hear you got the disc Kona. Surprised too because I thought it would take much longer. Oh well....in this case the sooner happened before the later, pretty cool. Once you get Ace's hardware and it all comes together........Wow! Have fun.
I got the 80 GB hard drive and IDE cables in this morning. Thanks guys!
It's not a big one but it tested perfect and has been used recently. Remember when 80GB's was a huge amount of storage? And 256 MBs was a lot of RAM?
I know the gfx card will be the lowest score in WEI but it is significantly better than most on-board gfx, won't use system memory and gives you multi-monitor options. It should do C&C just fine.
Yep , especially since that board has OverClocking capabilities in the Bios settings.
I wouldn't know the first thing about overclocking. What make/model is the board? thought I would look up the manual right quick.
It's an ASUS M2N-SLI. -- Ace --
here's a nice tech video for it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zsRPqN_uuc
I overclocked my cpu the other day for the fun of it, I have a MSIdka790gxplatinum w/oc capabilities, well, it failed and my computer wouldn't start after. Scared the __ _ _ _ OUT OF ME. Had to get out my manual, fortunately I did no harm, just had to reboot three times to reset the BIOS. Was still scary for a moment. Never again, thats what bigger CPU'S are for.IMO.DT1
That video says it is an AM2 mobo, not a AM2+ mobo. Will there be issues with this CPU I have?
AM2+/ AM2 http://www.asus.com/Motherboard/M2NSLI/ Odd, though, the manual for it states AM2 with no mention of AM2+ LINK
I like those quick connectors, great feature.
I have an AM2+ processor I used in it , so I know it works.
My first bought PC...I remember when 1 gig was huge and 16 meg ram was a lot.
Second PC I ever had was a real IBM XT [hand-me-down]...had a 1 meg expansion 'card' the size of a small city....
...back when 640k was all you'd ever need....
....and its HD was a whopping 20meg.
And now we have 4.2ghz beasties with 32 gigs of RAM and HDDs with terabytes of space. Due to a purchasing mixup with my nephew and my having to fix his machine, I have recently come into possession of an AMD FX8350 x8 @ 4.2ghz... in exchange he gets my AMD Phenom 1100T x6 @ 3.8. Silly sod left it way too long to return... besides, he opened the package and had installed the CPU on the wrong mobo, so his best option was the swap. As they say, fair exchange is no robbery... and the 1100T initially cost more anyhow.
Still trying to figure out how we got XP to run well on only 256 MB of memory.
My first interaction with a pc was a freebie.It had a pair of 2gig hard drives with windows 98 and 64mb of ram, pentium pro i think?
I had to do disk compression to run the thing even after a clean install!I think todays TV remotes are more powerful.
I checked Wizards link. and the first thing I saw was a paragraph at the top of the page saying, "am2+/am2 support. You will be fine!
Me too, and something that I've not seen on a mobo in ages are IDE connectors. Seeing those took me back. All my recent [Gigabyte] boards have only SATA ports
Well the case and mobo got here today. I'm now assembling the system. Keep your fingers crossed, I hope this works. Ace the board sure has a lot of dust on it. You sure it will work OK?
Amen
Well the system is up and running. However I can't get the mouse to work under Windows 7 at all. No matter if it's my PS2 mouse or my USB mouse, it really does not like either mouse. I can't get the PS2 mouse to work under Linux either. The USB mouse works fine. So what do I do? Keep in mind I am running the system in Linux right now.
Did you reboot after plugging the mouse in? That or shut the machine down, plug in the mouse and restart. I have one USB mouse like that and the drivers don't load until a reboot. After that, it works fine unless it is unplugged and the machine shut down again. If the rig is booted up, just plugging the thing in never seems to work.
I mean, do this with Windows installed.
probably just a driver issue with seven, try uninstalling the mouse through device manager, then reboot ? on your own with linux with me any way, no nothing there.Glad your running though.
Missed your post Wizard, sorry to repeat.
Also, do you have any other usb device you could try while in windows to make sure windows is recognizing your usb's?Maybe for some reason it did not install or turn on support? did you use the mouse while installing windows?
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