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| Thread ID: 69900 | 2006-06-15 23:52:00 | old old old pc help | aidanmaz (7180) | Press F1 |
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| 463489 | 2006-06-15 23:52:00 | yesterday i was given as many old pcs as i wanted from tghe place wher i did some IT work, (Petium 1, 32mb ram, 1.4gb hdd) i took them (free is good) and thought i could use as a mini server at home, how do i get Nt 4.0 server on the harddrive if there is no cdrom drive? i cant even find a second IDE channel!!! further more, using an ide cable with 2 40 pin plugs doesnt work could i copy the I386 file from the NT cd onto a usb stick and then to the 1.4gbhard drive, which is running 98SE currently? |
aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 463490 | 2006-06-16 00:41:00 | This problem is with ALL the Pcs you got? Free is a pain in the **** sometimes......Down here one of the schools called me up to discuss some tech work. Turned out to be they offered me a bunch of similar stuff from the wreckers pile, and I could build working PCs out of the mess and then they could pay me a bit or I could keep the leftovers, and they would onsell the working ones. Hahahaha. Not. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 463491 | 2006-06-16 01:29:00 | yea with all the pcs, (compaq deskpro) i took them cos i want a very basic server | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 463492 | 2006-06-16 05:41:00 | good luck i would take the 1.4g hard drive out ,put it into another computer, wipe the drive then put the i386 folder on, assuming you have a boot disk of some sort |
donn (106) | ||
| 463493 | 2006-06-16 06:13:00 | the ones i've struck like that i simply slaved a cdrom to the hardrive. don't forget to set it up in the bios. a lot of the older ones had cd rom ide on the sound cards which won't work untill windows is installed and the soundcard drivers are installed. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 463494 | 2006-06-16 09:26:00 | The biggest problem here is the lack of memory (and I doubt you can find enough bit enough pieces to get the RAM to a bearable level). Where I work we just give away the Pentium 2s and lowly pentium 3s. Sometimes I wonder if it is even worth the effort wiping the drives securely so we can give them to people i.e. just rip the drives out. I still see little piles of at work of old gear that people are mysteriously hoarding and laugh. :lol: bootdisks from here (www.bootdisk.com) |
gibler (49) | ||
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