-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Gateway Question

  • From: DeaconDeamon@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:39:38 +0000

Tried to put win98se on here but kept getting an error message. "An applacation 
is attempting to acess hard drive that is not autherized. This could cause 
applaction to run faulity" or something to that effect. I gave up.
Going to set up old reliable and put Lenux on a 20 gig hard drive.
Got a mother board ID #. Don't think that's the one your talking about. the 
chipset is "Intel Carmel i860" if that helps.
And the ram is PC800 ECC RDRAM.
et me get going so I can make that Lenux hard drive and see what happens.
Thanks 
Steve
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: GMan <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx> 

> Hi Steve, 
> You can use ANY speed drive you would like, but there may be an 
> unrelated limit as to how much of a new drive would be recognized. Those 
> possible limits are mostly imposed by the OS that's running on it, but can 
> also be enforced by the chipset running the mainboard. I would only be able 
> to fully investigate this if you can supply the mainboard's model number. 
> 
> On another note, that system was never intended to be used for WinXP, 
> especially with that small amount of RAM installed, so I imagine it's 
> crawling instead of running that OS. Since it most likely uses an older 
> type of memory that is no longer in demand (SDRAM SIMMs), you're not going 
> to find them cheap. You may want to consider using the system to test out 
> various Linux distributions such as Ubuntu. Linux should run on it about as 
> fast as WinXP runs on your main system. 
> 
> Peace, 
> GMan 
> http://reddit.com 
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!" 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: 
> To: 
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:52 PM 
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Gateway Question 
> 
> 
> >I was given an old gateway as payment for fixing a computer for a friend of 
> >my landlord. 
> > 
> > It's a E Series 5400. 966MHz CPU and 256mb Of ram. 10 gig hard drive 
> > running XP Home /SP2. 
> > 
> > I let both Crucial and Memory4all scan the computer to see what memory 
> > upgrade is available. as told by both sites that this computer MUST have 
> > the correct PC800 to work. Crucial did not show any and memory4all 
> > showed only 512mb sticks for 199 USD. At that price I'm going to stay 
> > with the 256 for awhile. 
> > 
> > I would like to put a different hard drive in, 10 gigs is just a little 
> > to small. The hard drive in it is a Quantum Fireball EX 10.2 A. It has 
> > 5400RPM. My question is do I need to use another 5400RPM or can I use a 
> > 7200? 
> > 
> > A little long winded but I wanted to explain things. 
> > 
> > Steve 
> 
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