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.
I have a pair of speakers, brand new still in the box. LINK (my mom realized that her monitor had speakers built in.) I also have an ATI 2400 Pro graphics card I have no use for, and will gladly send both to you. No, they wont rock the house, and the GFX card is low spec but like new. If you have a need or use for either one, let me know. It will take me a bit of time to get shipping costs together, so let me know as soon as you can.
The board has Nvidiagforce 6100 on board, for comparison for you all, I do not know specifics or which is better, I am an Nvidia lover though. You will have 7.1 surround, might need some speakers!.
Again, i am just offering details so you can decide better what you need.
Wizard, way cool, thumbs up from me.
As much as I applaud your effort I fear that it will not work. I haven't used my Paypal account in years and the Paypal debit card that I had with my account expired years ago. Getting a new one would take more time and effort than it's worth.
Go ahead and sent that and whatever else you were sending. Looks like I will need 7 to run a few apps 8 will not run. Are we still having an issue with a product key? Has that been resolved?
Agreed. Thanks again everyone. I really appreciate it.
No worries and thank you. What was the delivery date?
Is that card better than the onboard graphics system? No worries on speakers, I have that covered.
I'll cover the shipping, find out how much, lemme know.
Should be.
Okay......7 is coming. You do know how to dual boot.....right. (Dumb question)
cause I got no idea
Yeah I do. Thanks!!
Wizard do you have my address?
I got the DVD Burner in today. So far so good!
Guys I don't want to go to far off topic but I had an issue. I thought I would install the new DVD-RW drive in the system I have so I could play a few games that I have on DVD. The old drive would not read the disc. After installing the drive and looking in my BIOS settings the drive is there and working fine. The problem is that XP itself does not show the drive. Any ideas on a fix? Was looking forward to playing some games to kill some time.
Kona
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
Dual booting with 8 can be problematic....be warned.
Windows is still not recognizing the drive. I did everything in that article. Any other ideas?
Kona, put 7 on it until you get 8. 7 will see the drive.
You can legally run 7 for 30 days before it has to be activated. By then, you'll have 8, or a product key for 7.
You can get 7 from MS all day long. The OS is free, it's the product key that costs you.
XP doesn't have sata drivers, by default, so maybe you just need drivers.
Also, did you run the FixIt file from Microsoft?
Yeah I used the FixIt file from MS. It could not find the DVD-RW drive. Funny thing is that BIOS says it's there and the drive can boot bootable CDs and DVDs when the machine is turned on so this is a Windows XP issue. I would load 7 but the game I want to play only works on XP. I've tried it on 7 with no success. I have the SATA drivers for XP installed. Without them my hard drive would not work.
Any other ideas?
I believe it is not showing up due to your old board. You have a sata dvd plugged into a ide plug? when you get your new old board, you should have no trouble
Okay,try saying that again,.
Are you using a adapter to run your sata to a ide plug, could be the problem.
Had a different thought, are you using a masterjumper setting on your hard drive or cable select? set to master and the dvd to slave or cable select on both, might help.
The hard drive has a SATA interface. The DVD-RW drive has a SATA interface. My motherboard has 4 SATA connectors. The hard drive is plugged into one, the DVD-RW drive into another. This isn't a matter of a master/slave mess up. In fact the DVD-RW drive has no jumpers. It is a simple matter of Windows XP not recognizing the drive.
O kay , but I run xp with a sata dvd with no problems. Does it register during post?
I run xp pro by the way, incase there is a difference that way.
Never mind Kona , I see you posted already that it shows in bios. Sorry.
Hmmm, that might be a problem due to Microsoft's inability to assist me. According to their Sydney rep I cannot make a purchase for your region, and the one I am able make here will not provide you with the correct product key for your region.
There is another way, I just need to contact doortech1 via PM to arrange something. Thing is, I have to go out for an hour or so, but I will sort something out when I get back.
Thank you Starkers for the update. By the way guys I started a new thread about the DVD-RW issue so we don't derail this thread to much dealing with the issue. Here is the link:
https://forums.wincustomize.com/439474
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