Help from anyone that knows anything about computers please.

[JonnydaJibba]

Haha, alrighty.

So Scott when do you think I could pick up 2000? And Dean when do you think I could pick up the RAM and how much should I have in hand when I do or can pick it up? And Cody when do you think you will be available to do this?

Thanks for helpin out guys, if I could buy you beer I would

[cody]

@ Dean

I'm available in the evenings...hit me with a PM.

[Dean]

most any time. PMed you contact info.

Root Beer?

[Dean]

Oh, and regarding Anti-Virus...

Unless you have a specific reason, don't pay for AV... All these free products get the same updates as the retail products.

If your broadband provider like SBC offers one, use it. I think theirs is CE.

Second option is probably AVG http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Last is Avast. This probably is the most secure as it interfaces to email, Internet, disk, P2P, etc, but it is a slight resource hog IMHO. http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Since I store everything on my server, I have all three running on differeent clinet machines so I figure I should find just about anything.

[cody]

Originally Posted by Dean

Oh, and regarding Anti-Virus...

Unless you have a specific reason, don't pay for AV... All these free products get the same updates as the retail products.

If your broadband provider like SBC offers one, use it. I think theirs is CE.

Second option is probably AVG http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Last is Avast. This probably is the most secure as it interfaces to email, Internet, disk, P2P, etc, but it is a slight resource hog IMHO. http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Since I store everything on my server, I have all three running on differeent clinet machines so I figure I should find just about anything.

Anybody tried/heard anything about Google's new free AV?

[ScottyS]

Originally Posted by JonnydaJibba

Haha, alrighty.

So Scott when do you think I could pick up 2000? And Dean when do you think I could pick up the RAM and how much should I have in hand when I do or can pick it up? And Cody when do you think you will be available to do this?

Thanks for helpin out guys, if I could buy you beer I would

I gotta find it first. No beer needed --- I've hated the stuff since I was 8 (that public-service radio commercial about not giving alchohol to your kids cracks me up).

[JonnydaJibba]

Scott I left you a message, your answering machine is funny

[Ezdno]

Jonny I pm'd ya

[Ezdno]

I am so glad I am not the only geek on this board! If I have anything you need let me know.

[ScottyS]

Originally Posted by Ezdno

I am so glad I am not the only geek on this board!

Basically everybody on this board says:

[Dean]

What's kinda funny is that I have never had a machine that uses that RAM... I just happen to have them from somebody who upgraded and asked if I wanted the old stuff.

[JonnydaJibba]

Originally Posted by Dean

What's kinda funny is that I have never had a machine that uses that RAM... I just happen to have them from somebody who upgraded and asked if I wanted the old stuff.

I can't believe somebody had that kind, nobody I know uses it so that's quite lucky I think. Thanks much Dean. Also, I never knew that part of town even existed. I ended up getting lost on the way back, but I was exploring so it was rad.

[cody]

Anybody got Jonny's phone number. He was supposed to be here 30 minutes ago.

[ScottyS]

Check your PMs

[JonnydaJibba]

I'm pretty sure I have Jonny's number around here somewhere :looks around franticly: Uhhh, maybe I don't have it.

Dean thanks for the hardware, Scotty thanks for the OS, Cody thanks for the help reformatting.

I got pulled over last night on the way home from your house Cody, apparently my registration is expired. But I have a question. There are 2 hard drives now, and one says it has 7.98 gigs of space (the one Dean gave me) and one has 18.8 (mine). Why does Deans have only 8 gigs of space? Does it have something to do with the jumper settings? And if it does can I just rearrange them to make it work or is there more to it?

[cody]

Originally Posted by JonnydaJibba

I'm pretty sure I have Jonny's number around here somewhere :looks around franticly: Uhhh, maybe I don't have it.

Dean thanks for the hardware, Scotty thanks for the OS, Cody thanks for the help reformatting.

I got pulled over last night on the way home from your house Cody, apparently my registration is expired. But I have a question. There are 2 hard drives now, and one says it has 7.98 gigs of space (the one Dean gave me) and one has 18.8 (mine). Why does Deans have only 8 gigs of space? Does it have something to do with the jumper settings? And if it does can I just rearrange them to make it work or is there more to it?

Uh, we didn't use Dean's HD at all. I have no idea why you'd be seeing that 8GB partition...I assume you mean in My Computer?

That sucks you got pulled over Dude. Get that heap registered.

[Dean]

So what did you end up doing if you didn't use my drive? I thought there was data on his drive he wanted to preserve.

RAM work?

Today's Dilbert is priceless...

[cody]

Originally Posted by Dean

So what did you end up doing if you didn't use my drive? I thought there was data on his drive he wanted to preserve.

RAM work?

Today's Dilbert is priceless...

Laff@Dilbert.

I tried all 4 of the jumper settings for Master and a couple of the ones for Cable Select, but the system would hang as soon as it booted from the Windows install CD every time.

Replacing your HD with his fixed that problem so he said we could wipe it. Somthing that I had never seen before was that after the Windows installer loaded all drivers and asked us to agree to the lic. agreement by hitting F8, it would look for previous installs of Windows and then blue screen with the error msg., "Registry_Error". Luckily I had a Win. 98 Startup floppy and fdisk fixed that problem.

The RAM worked great. He's now got 384MB which coupled with his P4 1.2Ghz Processor and XP Home ain't too shabby.

[JonnydaJibba]

Lol, dilbert rocks.

Wait so we didn't use Deans HD? How do I have 2 local drives?
I have:
C:\ local, nothing is on it. 7.98 gigs
D:\ local, all my everything is there, program files, my docs, etc. 18.8 gigs
E:\ CD ROM drive
A:\ Floppy

The C drive used to be my main local, the D used to be my CD ROM.

How is it I have two drives then? Also I didn't bring in the box that Dean put the stuff in from my car, so the drive could be in there, but that doesn't explain 2 seperate local drives. His drive HAS TO be in there right? Where would I just get 8 gigs of extra space?

And there was data that I wanted to preserve but you HD wasn't taking the boot disk. Or something, ask Cody, I don't really know this computer stuff.

[cody]

Originally Posted by JonnydaJibba

Lol, dilbert rocks.

Wait so we didn't use Deans HD? How do I have 2 local drives?
I have:
C:\ local, nothing is on it. 7.98 gigs
D:\ local, all my everything is there, program files, my docs, etc. 18.8 gigs
E:\ CD ROM drive
A:\ Floppy

How is it I have two drives then? Also I didn't bring in the box that Dean put the stuff in from my car, so the drive could be in there, but that doesn't explain 2 seperate local drives. His drive HAS TO be in there right? Where would I just get 8 gigs of extra space?

And there was data that I wanted to preserve but you HD wasn't taking the boot disk. Or something, ask Cody, I don't really know this computer stuff.

You're freaking me out man. We told the XP installer to delete the existing partition and reformat the remainging 20Gigs NTFS to install Windows. It doesn't make sense that your HD has an 8GB partition that wasn't visible when we were deleting the 20GB partition. Dean's HD should be in the box still. I removed it from the machine completely, although you can try to hook it up as the slave HD...it may work as a slave.

[JonnydaJibba]

What? So where the hell does that extra 8gigs and a different local drive come from? Are they coming from the same drive? They both say NTFS I'm pretty sure. I mean total i have 26 gigs of space, how is that possible when I'm using the same drive I was before that is only 18.8 gigs?

[Dean]

If you aren't using the drive, it goes back in to my good usable parts for the needy bin.

It's one of the 7200 RPM IBM Deskstar screamer drives. Still one of the faster drives out there, and tough as nails.

Right Click My computer, manage, device manager, and hit disk drives, and get the model number(s). That will tell us what is physically in the machine.

Next, Don't close any windows, an in computer managemetn click, storage, Disk Management.

On Disk0, and/or Disk1, should have partitions, sizes, and types... You may have to "hover" your cursor over some of the descriptions to get the full details.

Type those things up and post them... We'll figure it out.

On second thought, you can be lazy, and do a start, run, msinfo32

Go to Components, storage, and then cut and paste the stuff from the right side for the sub headings Drives, and Disks for us.

[JonnydaJibba]

I'll look when I get home. Unfortunately I need a nic or something to get internet access so I'm internetless at home right now. 10mb nic or something? tick? I dunno.

[cody]

Yah, what Dean said.

What Jonny is so eloquently trying to say is his computer has no NIC. Anybody have an old 10Mb/sec one they don't want?

[Dean]

You people suck... Figure out what we need before we start...

I can't beleive it doesn't have an on-board NIC under/over the USB ports, but if it doesn't, I have a dozen or so 100mg. I threw out all the 10meg ones ages ago.

How the hell did you do Windows update and AV install without a NIC and broadband? You did do those, right?