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Jun. 25th, 2014 02:30 amA few months back, I picked up a new-to-me box that will eventually become my main system.
It's a Gateway E-4300. Had a DVD rive and a CD drive. No hard drives and 512 meg of RAM. 3.4 GHZ CPU.
It's expandable to 4 gig, which will do me fine since XP can't handle more than that, and if I set up dual boot with Linux, it should be fairly happy with it.
Anyway, in the process of slow upgrades around here, I'd discovered that the two 2 TB drives that I thought had problems were fine. Plus I'd picked up so old "small" drives from Doug to upgrade stuff.
A pair of 129 gig IDE drives, to replace the 40 gig drives the pair of IBM ThinkCentre boxes I'd gotten from him a while back. They were part of a batch he got cheap and he didn't need those two. One is serving as a media server of sorts until I can afford a blu-ray player that can play stuff off the network.
I wanted to replace the drives on those because they'd been "fresh" base installs, and if I swap them out, I can put them away to have a way to restore thodse systems to something resembling "factory" software config.
Got one done (I think I posted about that).
The second has to wait until I get done with the current shuffle.
( much tech stuff follows )
It's a Gateway E-4300. Had a DVD rive and a CD drive. No hard drives and 512 meg of RAM. 3.4 GHZ CPU.
It's expandable to 4 gig, which will do me fine since XP can't handle more than that, and if I set up dual boot with Linux, it should be fairly happy with it.
Anyway, in the process of slow upgrades around here, I'd discovered that the two 2 TB drives that I thought had problems were fine. Plus I'd picked up so old "small" drives from Doug to upgrade stuff.
A pair of 129 gig IDE drives, to replace the 40 gig drives the pair of IBM ThinkCentre boxes I'd gotten from him a while back. They were part of a batch he got cheap and he didn't need those two. One is serving as a media server of sorts until I can afford a blu-ray player that can play stuff off the network.
I wanted to replace the drives on those because they'd been "fresh" base installs, and if I swap them out, I can put them away to have a way to restore thodse systems to something resembling "factory" software config.
Got one done (I think I posted about that).
The second has to wait until I get done with the current shuffle.
( much tech stuff follows )
