Someone gave me a surplus Dell server Poweredge 2200 P-II-233 128 megs of RAM Ultra-wide SCSI Don't know if I've ever seen anything like it... It's got both PCI and EISA slots... that must be a very rare item i'd think anyway it works fine...

Hello, I have an old desktop (an Altarus Pro-ISA, although I have never heard of that) that I am working on for a friend. It was working great. It was running Windows 2000. Anyway, now it will not boot. Basically, when you turn it on, it detects all of the drives, then it shows that list of some...

Hello ! A friend of mine has a computer with an ECS 741GX-M mobo. I went there last week to update some of its files with my USB stick, and noticed that an annoying "Configuration changed - run setup" message was displayed on reboot each time I rebooted with the USB key status...

Hi all. I've recently upgraded to a brand new computer. It has no gameport on it, so I removed my sounscard from the old machine and installed it there, just for the gameport. The soundcard itself works fine (although there's an onboard sound), but the gameport doesn't. That is, windows recognized...

I have an old Gateway E-4200 computer. I am looking to upgrade the computer as a side project. I noticed that the power supply is proprietary. I was wondering if anyone has tried to modify the case in any way to accept standard sized power supplies? If so, could they tell me what they did?

I have a client who has a telephone monitoring system in a motel environment. It tracks time of calls, etc. It uses an old green screen. To save space, he wants to install a flat panel LCD. The connectors are not the same. Can this be done with expectation of a reasonable image? (DOS program...

I was going through my stash of pensioned-off hard drives today and out of curiosity looked at the prices they are getting on eBay (not the asking prices but the completed-sale prices). E.g., $157.19 for a pre-owned Seagate 500GB ST3500320AS!! $50.50 for a circuit board for an ST500630AS...

Boo hoo. My vintage '08 laptop died. It was branded eMachines D620, but its heritage was Gateway acquired by Acer '07, and the name was dc/d about 6 y later. Its hardware was a mobile Athlon 2650e, 2G ram incl the Radeon graphics, 160G hdd, optical and ethernet in add'n to the wifi. Cheap...

God I'm sick of helping 'friends' with their PCs. I need help with this latest one. A while ago I upgraded an old Kaiyo machine for a (financially challenged) friend from an AMD 686 100Mhz to a P166MMX, bumped the RAM up from 8MB to 64MB and slapped in a 256Kb COAST module and added a PCI NIC so...

I don't know if you guys remember my posts from a couple of weeks ago (I can't just add this to that thread as I've just done a clean install) where I couldn't get an old AT machine working for the life of me, swapped out everything to no avail. I was asked to report back when I solved it so here...

(I did put this post on another newgroup, but I got no answer, so I give it a try here ;) Hello all, I need your advice: I have at home a SUN U2, U10 and some sparcstations 20. You won't be surprised if I tell you they are a little bit old... Beside using them a DNS server and for fun, I'm...

I have an old(ish) PC, bought in 2000, running Windows 98SE, with its own originsal HDD, which works fine. I also have an even older HDD which is a Western Digital Caviar 2850, which dates back to 1995, which I kept from an even older computer running Windows 95. When I had my old PC, I could...

I have an old, but working, IBM ThinkPad I got from a company that went bankrupt. It runs Microsoft NT 4.0, has a modem, a working floppy drive, and runs very well. The only problem is since it was a company's computer, it has been protect with their passwords. I want access to some of the...

Hi all, I have a friend with a Acer 505 series laptop which has the following core specs: - CPU: Mobile Intel Celeron-A, 466 MHz (7 x 67) RAM: 128 MB Chipset: Intel Banister 82440MX Win98SE

Hi, I've got at least 3 old laptops (pentiums and 486's) and was wondering if their LCD screens are of any use. to put in a car or as a second monitor for my current pc for example thanks sean

Hello all I want to buy a replacement part for an old Compaq Armada 1750 Laptop. To be precise, it is a sound board replacement. I'm located in greece and I was wondering if anyone would know how much this part would cost, and if I could find it here or should I order it online. Thanx for your...

Suppose I buy a new machine - complete with new hard drives. I know I can clone the hard drives on my old machine onto the new machine's drives, but I have run into trouble before trying to use a boot drive or copy thereof from an old machine on a different machine. How can I do this more...

I am trying to resurrect an old ATX 200MHZ machine out of spare parts to give to my novice neighbor. It seems to work fine except for the fact that it will not recognize any of several CDR/CDRW/DVDRW drives I have. I tried one DVDRW drive that I know for a fact works, and the machine does not...

I have a friend who is always messing with things - he has inherited an old computer that a neighbor threw away. He says he got it running, but that it has a very small HDD. He wants to put a larger (say 8 GB) in it, but it won't recognize the drive at all. He lives 100 miles away, so I can't...

Please help! I posted this last week to a coupla dozen newsgroups, but never saw my original message pop up, so I'm trying again. I have an ASUS P5A-B mobo with the latest BIOS installed (1105). It has an AMD-K6-2/500AFX processor. All mobo jumpers are correct for this CPU.