I have just purchased a refurb Dell Poweredge 2300 and would like to put an OS on it.
I have WinXP Pro. I can't find anything on if this will work on my server. I've looked at Dell's site and couldn't find any info on compatability.
I'm also lost as to how to get the thing to boot...
A friend of mine is running a Gateway with WINXP home. It was running really slow and she asked me to take a look at it.
I ran Spybot s&d and cleaned out a load of spybots and adware and exploits. Then I ran msconfig and unchecked everything accept ms task and systray.
The computer then...
I am having a problem with a client that is using "calyx point", I am not very familliar with the program. "Point" is a program that is used by mortgage brokers to initiate loan applications, and keep track of the application.
The problem that I am running into is during the installation of...
You can try Norton Ghost.
The recovery cd's are nothing more than bootable cd's that have a proprietary image copy program on them. Usually, if you explore the cd with unhiden files, you will see a .bin file, a exe, and a .img. If you are familliar with Ghost you can have it copy the image...
I read an article that mentioned a weather program that was run on 48 486's using linux to distribute packets for processing to each computer.
I think that this could be a neat project. Not that I have huge numbers to crunch. Just something fun to do.
Has anybody out there ever done anything...
Have you tried fixing the master boot record?
There is a comand that will write a new boot sector to the hard drive. I forget what the comand is for 9x boot disks, but under win2k it is FIXMBR from the 'recovery console'
I have the windows 95 CD, but I do not have the disks. This is a problem because I have a customer that has a stack of old Dells that need an operating system. I tried putting a CD in them, but it didn't work. my only option is to use the original win 95 disks, but I don't have them. I only...
After 5 years of putting together computers, I have never had a problem with a mobo by AOpen. They always come with great documentation, and their site is always up to date.
Boards to stay away from are MSI, I haven't had much joy with them.
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