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i run without a GFX fan...although theres one thing i cannot safely do. if i restart my computer, the graphics get very screwy. colors are messed up and everything. the only way to get around it is turning off my computer, taking out the card, then taking out a chip thats on the card [its removeable] and then putting it back in after a minute. hasn't failed me yet, although i feel like it will soon. its not exactly the best graphics i've ever used, but i only have regular PCI slots to work off of. the motherboard has its own VGA output, but to run Vista, i need 32 bit, not 24. thus, the graphics card has helped. if i get windows on my other computer i can have up to 128bit graphics provided i get the Radeon9200 i asked my parents for. btw, if you're wondering what card im using right now, its a Genoa Phantom series 3D/ViRGE...the model is 8375

i'll definately try that, although in almost all situations i can see windows XP just being able to handle the workload. Vista will be more secure and user friendly. If you've got vista running, open up the control panel. thats user friendly. its completely laid out, there are more options than XP has, which means you can 'do more'. although that is true in some ways, windows XP is a very stable operating system. Home Edition users lag the most, because its just XP, plain and simple. Professional users get the most out of it, its built to perform. Vista is build to look good, be as user friendly as possible, and still perform just as good. you can take a computer and to whatever you want it, as long as its compatible. Vista is still in beta, so im sure in time to come it will get much better. if 5520 has many fixes, i have no reason to doubt that the public final release will be just as good as XP, with even more capabilities.

being vista compatible and running faster with vista are two very different things. windows vista right now is just a bunch of beta OS's that are being released to those who want to test it or whatever. by all means i would suggest not using it until its final, although i do use it now myself. to me, at least for the summer, its something that i can play around with. XP is much more stable and customizable right now, and it supports what you buy. if you buy a printer, you can install it on XP. with vista, its not that easy. all the new computers that say they're Vista Compatible are really just the same thing computers have always been. i have a 5 year old HP 7915 desktop computer, 1.1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM. it runs vista just great. i can play my music, rip music, use trillian, firefox, microsoft word...everything that i could need. even the slave drive. its no use going out buying new to do something extra, its not always nessecary. i was reading other topics around here, saying that people would throw out old slow computers, and the problem might just be that they were never defragmented. yea, its a big problem with people. you don't need a dual processor computer, you don't even really need much of a processor. you just need to stay neat and organized. but back to what you were saying, yes, you'd be much better off just sticking with XP, because you could utilize a much larger portion of the processors and RAM. Vista will just eat it up, XP is much more frugal with it. Operating System of choice these days is either Mac OS X or Windows XP. thats why they make cross platform drives and computers. linux is a whole other story.

microsoft stopped giving out serial numbers to activate it a few months ago. mine was given to me by a friend, and since they only work on a computer twice, and on up to 10 computers, im reluctant to hand it out. since there were so few created [only about a thousand or so] no one was able to create a key generator for it.

yea, theres an option that has linux automatically edit the partition table, it just splits the drive in half and does it all automatically.

thats a bit more than you need just install your windows XP normally, however you like. if you're able to during the installation, limit the size of the windows XP partition to about half the hard drive. when the installation for windows is complete, put in the ubuntu CD, let it install, and when it gets to the partitioner, it will have everything there that you need. if you need to resize it, it will let you. it will install the grub boot loader, and the swap partition during the linux installation. WARNING: Ubuntu will take over as the main operating system, so no matter how you want it, Ubuntu will be the main. theres a video on Google Video about it: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6104490811311898236

i had a setup going, to test it a while ago, i had a regular cat5 cable going in the back along with wireless internet [my wireless signal was 11.0Mbps, my LAN was 100Mbps] for about 15 or so seconds, the internet icon would flash between the LAN [two computers] and a set of bars, similar to that of a cellphone reception meter. after that, the signal dropped entirely, and i was stuck with only LAN. so, thats the best i can say on the matter.

can't exactly get too technical with this, but i've had similar troubles with a Belkin Wireless G desktop card. it seems as though it doesn't support wireless internet just yet. for a couple seconds it did work for me, but the signal either dropped, or vista stopped it. best bet is just going LAN. if i find a solution for it i'll post it, but right now LAN is Vista's hotspot.

i don't have the original hard drive, i can't install over anything. i need to do a clean install. without the original hard drive, the computer has nothing to go off of, making almost everything unsupported. when you install linux next to an operation system, it creates two new partitions. one which is called swap, and it installs a boot program called grub. both of them come with linux, and linux takes over as the main operating system, but Windows [or whatever you started with] is still acessable in a menu. i do know plenty about computers, its just that i don't have the original hard drive to work with, which is where i loose my smarts.

well, heres the most current updated situation with it. after spending an hour installing windows XP onto the 40Gb hard drive, i put it back in. well, XP didn't boot. at all. so i installed Linux again. then i resized the partitions so it would dual boot. works great. heres one for you compu-geniuses: Windows XP installs as a recovery partition and the actual OS. when the grub boot loader installed, and i got a look at it, the recovery partition and the OS were seperated. with it being like that, would it be possible to run the recovery partition to make XP work? i want opinions before i do something... bad.

alright, i looked as far as i could before loosing patience for a previous topic, so if this is just bringing back the dead, sorry. i went to the dump yesterday, i was looking for a computer slightly bigger and better than what i had for school. so i found one. Its an HP 9720 desktop. the sticker on the front says designed for Windows ME. its got a 1.4 Ghz processor [that i had to replace because the original was quite literally dead]. well, it didn't have a hard drive. at first i thought, no problem, i've got a 40 gig, and a 60 gig at home i can use. well, right now i've got the 40 gig in it, and i'm running Ubuntu Linux 5.10 because when i inserted my Windows XP disk, it said that the system doesn't support that. so i was cool with that, its understandable. i went and i grabbed the Windows ME Emergency Recovery CD (Bootable) Version 1.0 well, it actually got me somewhere, but i have one major problem. none of my sisters or dad know how to install it. i got as far as choose the directory, you know, you get that DOS screen with: A:/ well, i tried what my older sister did with changing the director, going through the alphabet, cd.* where * is a letter in the alphabet. but i didn't get anywhere. in fact, i got nowhere fast. does anyone have any knowledge on this? even if i just get ME going i'll be fine and happy. but if im stuck with linux thats cool too. i was just asking because its a very nice computer, 6 PCI slots, 256MB RAM [doesn't seem like much though] and the 1.4 Ghz processor. its got a CD burner, DVD drive, disk drive, sound card, video card, and ethernet card all in it when i pulled it out. all i needed was a hard drive. now that i have the hard drive, i need more help. thanks in advanced, if you need any more info, just ask, and i'll do what i can to get it. im not exactly the most computer savy, but i managed to get it working somehow right?

hhmmm, my friend was telling me about making some start-up disk...should have command.com on it...can anyone expand on that?

uhm....could you please repeat that in id*** english...[not too good on the whole technical terms yet] [better gamer than techy] NEVERMIND...heh..stupid me killbox didnt work..whats bartPE?

ok, im not sure where else i should put this so here goes...yea whatever norton anti-virus [yea i really hate it] seems to believe that jaaste.dll is a virus...i've tried deleting it, and quarantining it..but nothing seems to work, so everytime i turn this ****** on i get a stupid pop-up that tells me theres a virus...anybody know what to do?