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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1476)	6/23/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Upgrading a Pentium 200 to a Pentium 233 MMX cont.. Your immediate problem is probably your C drive. The Win95 virtual memory is most likely on your C drive and it does not have room to move. You could change it to the D drive and your machine might work a little better. You can change it to the D Drive in Settings/Control Panel/System/Device Manager/Performance. This is also where you can find how much RAM your machine has. Right click your modem in the device manager to find out more about it. If your machine is based on your 386 motherboard I would leave it as is and buy a new machine. I would not throw money at old technology. Keep the machine as a backup computer. JMHO Street Walker has about six months of research into a trading machine with value in mind. I believe he is opting for Win98 and multimonitors. He hasn't posted a final configuration but stay tuned as the machine is in its final stages. If you opt for a new machine you need to decide between Slot 1 Intel PII based systems and AMD socket seven based systems IMHO. Dave Hanson makes a good case for the super seven epox mobo. You can get a barebones + system at ESC. Here is a possible configuration. Not all parts are available at ESC (they do not sell Matrox video cards) esc-tech.com Epox 51MVP3E-M motherboard (ATX style, 1 MB cache onboard), 64MB Corsair PC100 CAS Latency 2 memory, AMD-K6-2/266 processor with 3DNow! and fan $430 In Win Q500 case 300 watt PS $120 Flop and CD $100 IBM Deskstar 8 6.5 GB $250 Win98 $120 Two Matrox Video cards $200 Aprox estimated Total not including modem monitors tax and shipping and ? $1220 Use your old keyboard and mouse (you could also use your CPU to save a few $ and upgraade it later on. Zeuspaul ps The auxiliary may help you home.att.net Click on Configurations to follow Street Walkers trading machine. I am a half week behind with the indexing but things should be caught up by the end of the week.

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1476)	6/23/1998 12:51:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

>>is it hard to transfer stuff from an old drive ? << If the harddrives are in the same machine just copy from one to the other using Windows Explorer, xcopy or Partition Magic, Each would have its advantages depending on what you want to copy. Most newer machines support four IDE devices. If you have an IDE CDROM and two harddiscs you probably have room for one more harddisc. You could install the harddrive and then use Partition Magic to clone your C drive. You could then install the new harddisc on the primary IDE channel and boot as before. In a new machine you could install your old drives and clone them to the new drive or just copy selected files with Windows Explorer. How do I check my actual access speed Right click on your modem icon and it should give your connection stats. You can check a few more things with Netmedic vitalsigns.com download a trial version. Networm indicated it may have a memory leak. You could use it for awhile to check things out. Once you learn how your modem is functioning you will not need it anymore. Zeuspaul