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[img]images/smiles/converted/eek.gif[/img] WOW! Now that is a price I can handle!!!!!!
Maybe I’ll get that new pc sooner than I thought!
Thanks Mattman [img]images/smiles/converted/biggrin.gif[/img]
Hey, no problem… [img]images/smiles/converted/wink.gif[/img]
The catch is, you have to build it yourself, but that can be half the fun. [img]images/smiles/converted/biggrin.gif[/img]
I already made a change to the list. Changed the Volcano II heatsink to a SVC Golden Gate 30. It’s $10 more, but an all copper heatsink/fan (HSF) for $18 just can’t be beat and it’ll keep that toasty Athlon nice and cool. [img]images/smiles/converted/cool.gif[/img]
Well, it kinda depends on what you need… A full tower is great if you plan on expanding in the future.
The Superpower Zephyr KS-201 that I recommended is supposed to be a very good mid-tower, having 4 – 5" bays instead of the usual 3. Here’s a good review of it.
As far as full towers go, they definately give you more room to work with and generally have better airflow, due to more open space and more room to mount fans. They tend to be a bit heavy though, but if you don’t move your PC around much, that’s probably not a problem. The Antec SX1030 id supposed to be pretty good and its only $15-20 more than the Zephyr. Here’s a review.
In any case, make sure you have at least a 300Watt power supply. It’ll give you plenty of room for expansion. [img]images/smiles/converted/wink.gif[/img]
I also wanted to point out that I didn’t include video, sound, keyboard, mouse, or drives in my list. The epox mobo comes w/ onboard sound, which is passible, but not great. It’ll also cost you some cpu cycles to use it (its software based.) I figured you could swap the drives from your current computer, and video depends on what you intend to do with it.
Of coarse, you could always leave your current machine mostly intact. Maybe slap a cheap CDROM in it and then you have your ftp server separate from your main machine. [img]images/smiles/converted/wink.gif[/img]
umm, a lot of reading to get to the end of this topic… you have a 28 gig hd, but it only shows up as 7 gigs in both the bios and windows ? and when you format it from windows it’s still 7 gigs ? is it fat, or fat 32 ? are there partitions ? bad sectors ?
Jeremiah and I are still trying to solve this issue. We’ve just been doing it over email and PM’s. The problem is that the computer is a Compaq and doesn’t follow standards. For instance, the BIOS is not on a flashROM chip on the mainboard, but instead on a separate partition of the original harddrive.
I already know that the problem has to do with the fact that the older Compaq BIOS doesn’t support LBA mode for HD’s (over 8GB support.) We’re just trying to find a way around it… [img]images/smiles/converted/frown.gif[/img]
WOOOOO-HOOOOO
Don’t know why it works but I know have all 30gigs of my HD working… What changed? I upgraded to Win2K and bam…
hell yes!re-structuring the ftp right now so I should have it back up in a couple days since I have room again!
Excellent! The reason it works is that Win2k is an entirely different arcitecture. The only thing is has in common with the Win9x is purely cosmetic features…
So did you format in fat32 or NTFS?
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NTFS – Was it the right choice??? Seemed like the thing to do [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Yeah, NTFS is a lot more stable. Both have there advantages though, I don’t remember exactly, but I think fat32 may be slightly faster in certain situations, but I don’t remember the details.
What you’re gonna love about NTFS is that if your ‘puter gets cut off without being shut down properly, such as a power outtage or something, when you crank it back up… NO WAITING FOR A DISK SCAN!!!
NTFS keeps things all in order, even in a catastophy… [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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