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Re: IndyLUG PC
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lugnet.org.us.indylug
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Mon, 13 Oct 2003 04:12:25 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.indylug, Brian B. Alano wrote:
> Thanks to Mark's excellent dumpster dumping, we've nearly got a complete PC.
> 500MHz Athlon with 488MB RAM, 32MB AGP Video, and SoundBlaster Live! sound.
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> I put everything I had together tonight. Even added the modem that came with the
> Pavilion. Haven't tested the sound card, modem, or mouse. I put in two hard
> drives totaling 270MB and guess what? Windows XP said it couldn't install 'cause
> it needed more space! Imagine! My recent laptop acquisition freed up a wireless
> card, so we don't need a network card anymore. We do still need a hard drive. At
> least 2GB. 6 would be better and 10 would be plenty.
How big of a hard drive will the motherboard/BIOS support? I have a brand new 75
Gb drive that I had as a spare for my RAID server, which is going to be upgraded
to 250 Gb drives fairly soon.
- Eric
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| (...) I don't know, but I suspect it will work. If not (or if it's no longer available) I just freed up a 6 GB drive. (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| Thanks to Mark's excellent dumpster dumping, we've nearly got a complete PC. 500MHz Athlon with 488MB RAM, 32MB AGP Video, and SoundBlaster Live! sound. I put everything I had together tonight. Even added the modem that came with the Pavilion. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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