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Old 01-14-2003, 07:46 PM   #1
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a buddy bought a new pc and his wife threw out the old one, this is a old at case, fic intergrated board but has a 20 gig barracuda and a 48x speed cd, its a 750 amd , windows 95 but reall;y ate up, i want to wipe windows,
reformat the hd and use it as a file pc, down load everything to this pc, burn a cd then file it in the basic system is this do able let me know sam
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Old 01-15-2003, 06:41 AM   #2
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yes format the hdd load win98se install a cdrw maybe some more ram and a modem you can allso install a network card in both pc with a crosover cable and run a small network
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I wish someone would throw out a 750 with a 20 gig drive onto my doorstep.
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I'm wid you, Reboot. What I get are 486's w/20M HD and 4 M of RAM!
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Old 01-15-2003, 09:59 AM   #5
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guys this thing was hanging ,locking up and realy drove polly nuts she just wanted to get rid of it , bet it winds up costing a case of san migel at lest
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guys this thing was hanging ,locking up and realy drove polly nuts she just wanted to get rid of it , bet it winds up costing a case of san migel at lest
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