If you had an Nvidia mainboard I would have said it's possible given the problems Nvidia has had with producing good drivers for its Nforce2...
Who told you the board would need a bios flash and why? Most people can run their mainboard right out of the box forever without flashing. Is the...
Dude! Not sure if you're the right place here for overclocking advice but whatever... I don't have a Barton 2500+ but I'm fairly certain that...
Old monitors are definitely not plug and play. I have an old Packard Bell monitor and I cannot even use it to install Windows 98. Whatever...
The only time I encounted these same symptoms was when my power supply was not up to the needs of the system. The rig would almost never boot on...
Start by disconnecting all drives: cd-rom, hard drive, and floppy. I would disconnect all case fans also but, of course, not the cpu fan....
Adele, I wouldn't worry about compatibility with a Radeon as long as you buy at least a Radeon 8500. And since you're not a gamer, I'd think you'd...
The best place to look for memory compatibility is the web site of the manufacturer of your mainboard. This will tell you not only what phyical...
If you consider yourself a power user, avoid any integrated graphics as they simply provide basic video - definitely not for CAD/CAM users....
I agree with you 100%, BB (excuse the editing). I've been running Win98SE flawlessly for years and have absolutely no complaints. I even run...
Thanks for the replies. Bummed to hear about video card and CD-ROM drives being on the list. I change those like I change underwear...well sort...
For example, I tried using an Enlight 300W PSU in a rig with 3 hard drives and a CD-Rom and it wouldn't boot unless I disconnected at least one of...
My wife and I run an online business so major upgrade's are difficult as I just don't get alot of time with the box. I'm in the process of...
Yes I've activated XP. And yeah the old drive was bootable (Win98SE). I eventually got the data off by slaving the old drive to the new one. The...
From what people have told me, slaving a hard drive in WinXP is no biggie and people do it all the time. I went into Safe Mode and turned off the...
I loaded up XP Pro for the first time and updated to SP1 with critical updates. Everything was fine until I wanted to copy my old stuff from the...
Thanks for the info. Someday I've got to get XP and put it on a third HDD with my triple hard drive selector.
Found out you can't search for terms less than 3 chars. in length so I had to start a thread. Can someone tell me in 10 words or less how to...
Currently, Durons and even low-end XPs are dirt cheap. And memory prices are falling drastically. I just picked up 512MB of PC2700 (KingMax) for...
Try troubleshooting with a different keyboard. I used to have this happen alot. Some PS/2 connects can be very fussy possibly due to some abuse....
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