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Jonny
Daughter has a very early ATX PC. AMD 266 cpu running Windows Millenium
edition. Her two boys want to run some current games on it. Naturally its
not capable for a number of hardware reasons, and requires XP.
She saved 3 files she made in Printshop to floppy she says she must
absolutely keep. Rest, she says is not needed (I know this will change).
Intentions are to swap out motherboard with a 2.4GHz Celeron, 512MB RAM,
onboard video and sound. Have driver CD from mobo maker that includes XP
provisions. The XP installation CD is HE w/SP2, generic OEM, buy with
hardware type. Purchased a new Antec ATX 2.0 power supply to power the new
mobo and PC. Will use a USB connected 56K modem vice the current serial
port connnected 33K version.
A new 80GB WD hard drive, new, still in the shrinkwrap will be the boot
drive on the primary ide as master for XP. The former two hard drives will
be master and slave on the secondary, neither contain a DDO, nor
compression. The cdrom, primary slave. The former boot hard drive with ME
will be on the secondary master position. Daughter uses AOL (AO-hell),
older version of Quicken (2002?), and PrintShop (15?) with regularity.
I can partition/format hard drive NTFS, install XP w/CD, hardware driver CD
etc okay.
Need suggestions on 1 subsequent goal.
The 2 year old motherboard has hardware drivers for ME. Would like to strip
its current drivers, install the drivers for that. Then when done, move to
secondary master position. Then install XP hoping it will see ME on the
other hard drive for dual boot option. Will the latter happen automatically
during the XP install?
She hasn't gotten any new AV since NAV2002. Any suggested freebie AV?
Am installing a firewire card too, that I know works with the motherboard.
Intentions are to save XP installation to my firewire hard drive as image
file in event she corners herself with insurmountable problems. There is a
backup of the old ME install as image file on the 3rd hard drive that I'll
have to add to.
edition. Her two boys want to run some current games on it. Naturally its
not capable for a number of hardware reasons, and requires XP.
She saved 3 files she made in Printshop to floppy she says she must
absolutely keep. Rest, she says is not needed (I know this will change).
Intentions are to swap out motherboard with a 2.4GHz Celeron, 512MB RAM,
onboard video and sound. Have driver CD from mobo maker that includes XP
provisions. The XP installation CD is HE w/SP2, generic OEM, buy with
hardware type. Purchased a new Antec ATX 2.0 power supply to power the new
mobo and PC. Will use a USB connected 56K modem vice the current serial
port connnected 33K version.
A new 80GB WD hard drive, new, still in the shrinkwrap will be the boot
drive on the primary ide as master for XP. The former two hard drives will
be master and slave on the secondary, neither contain a DDO, nor
compression. The cdrom, primary slave. The former boot hard drive with ME
will be on the secondary master position. Daughter uses AOL (AO-hell),
older version of Quicken (2002?), and PrintShop (15?) with regularity.
I can partition/format hard drive NTFS, install XP w/CD, hardware driver CD
etc okay.
Need suggestions on 1 subsequent goal.
The 2 year old motherboard has hardware drivers for ME. Would like to strip
its current drivers, install the drivers for that. Then when done, move to
secondary master position. Then install XP hoping it will see ME on the
other hard drive for dual boot option. Will the latter happen automatically
during the XP install?
She hasn't gotten any new AV since NAV2002. Any suggested freebie AV?
Am installing a firewire card too, that I know works with the motherboard.
Intentions are to save XP installation to my firewire hard drive as image
file in event she corners herself with insurmountable problems. There is a
backup of the old ME install as image file on the 3rd hard drive that I'll
have to add to.