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30th January 2006, 03:33
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Got'cha. I'll probably mess with it tomorrow night since it's already getting late now.
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30th January 2006, 12:44
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NERDS!
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31st January 2006, 00:46
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No... Geeks.
 There IS a difference.  
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31st January 2006, 01:46
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Yes there is.....lol i work at geeks....
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.-*-If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0-*-Guess the band from pics game |
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31st January 2006, 01:57
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You were right. I took all the RAM out, turned it on, it beeped six or seven times, I turned it off, put in a couple completely different sticks of 128MB, and now it works again.
I also managed to replace the 350Mhz Pentium II with a 500Mhz Pentium III. Time to nLite a copy of XP Pro and see what this bad boy can do.  [edit] I didn't feel like nLiting Windows, so I just put a pirated copy of WinXP Pro in it and hit Enter. This should be interesting. [/edit] |
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31st January 2006, 02:40
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As long as you kill themes you should be fine, especially with 256 of RAM....my toughbook is a PII 300 with 192 and runs XP Pro SP2 fine
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.-*-If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0-*-Guess the band from pics game |
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31st January 2006, 02:56
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It's almost done installing now. Seems like it's doing ok so far, but I need to put a couple fans on the CPU's heatsink. The P2 that came in it just had a big heatsink with a duct that connected to the fan in the PSU. Well, this P3 has a smaller heatsink that requires at least one fan, so right now, I've got the side panel off and a small desk fan blowing into it.
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31st January 2006, 08:06
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My solution: http://psykotech.com/mods/stfu/board.jpg
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31st January 2006, 10:00
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cool, maybe I can play tetris on it
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1st February 2006, 01:06
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Yep, that board looks identical to the one in this Gateway. I've got a couple cooling fans around here somewhere, so I'll mount one of them to it in a bit. I finished installing XP Pro last night and customized a few settings on it (switched to Windows Classic, disabled all the effects, changed the colors). Seems pretty responsive so far, but I haven't really done anything with it yet.
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1st February 2006, 01:16
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SP2 yet? That will make it take a hit but i think that it is worth it because of the really bad exploits
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.-*-If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0-*-Guess the band from pics game |
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1st February 2006, 01:27
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I'll probably install that tomorrow night. I just don't feel like screwing with it right now.
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1st February 2006, 01:33
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Oh, i recomend downloading the SP2 exicutable cause that will be better than 40000 downloads
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.-*-If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0-*-Guess the band from pics game |
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1st February 2006, 01:37
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I already have the SP2 installer saved on my other computer.
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1st February 2006, 02:52
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Your other computer or your other other computer?
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1st February 2006, 03:02
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while talking about how many systems we all have...
I have: Game rig Two athlon systems IBM R50 Toughbook CF-27 Media PC Apple II C Bro: Gaming rig Dad: IBM A30 Toshiba POS celeron lappie Desktop 2 Dell PIII 866 And I might be missing something..... Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.-*-If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0-*-Guess the band from pics game |
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1st February 2006, 03:08
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Like a kid in a candy store =P
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1st February 2006, 03:11
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Lol i work at a computer store too.....
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.-*-If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0-*-Guess the band from pics game |
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1st February 2006, 03:27
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Haha nice... Between my dad and I, we've got a bunch of systems. The majority are mine and are pretty old, though.
Mine: Orpheon (Self-built) HP Pavilion 504n ADS Laptop Gateway G6-350 Packard Bell Platinum 4440 Packard Bell Multimedia PB2100 Packard Bell Legend Supreme 1600 Packard Bell Legend 232 Compaq Proliant 4500 IBM L40 SX Dad's: eMachine T2642 Compaq SR1320NX Compaq Presario 6000 These don't include the computers we've had in the past, either. Our first computer was a Commodore 64. I also used to have an HP Pavilion 6735 and an old Dell system (forget the model number, but it had an 800Mhz Pentium III). I might be forgetting one or two as well.
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5th February 2006, 06:38
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Well, I upgraded a few things on this Gateway since the other day. I added a cooling fan to the CPU (see attachment
), I added a second hard drive (30GB, too!), removed the internal modem and replaced it with a 10/100MBps NIC, and added one more 128MB RAM card (384MB total, now). I'll probably take the CD-ROM drive out and put a DVD-ROM drive in it for the hell of it, too.I just got done installing SP2, Firefox, and Avast! on it a little bit ago as well. Seems to be doing pretty well so far. I didn't even have to install drivers for the NIC. Windows automatically recognized it, and I was online before I realized it.
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5th February 2006, 18:32
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I left it running overnight just to see if anything would happen to it. It's running rock solid. Not bad for a free computer, methinks.
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5th February 2006, 21:41
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Now if only you can score some free porn with it
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6th February 2006, 01:41
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Free pr0n = teh win!
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6th February 2006, 02:02
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and you can send it my way
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6th February 2006, 02:08
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I'll see what I can come across...
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