Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (7442)	5/10/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

* My New DREAM MACHINE * for daytrading Message 9267936 Unicorn Systems,(Pete), is going beyond what I expected in a building me my computer. Because some of the parts were hard to get, he calls me each time he recieves them. The new 9.1g 7200rpm Western Digital HD is smokin' fast ! He got his shippment in the other day and tested them out and he was impressed both visually and on the tests he ran it on. He said its extremely quiet. These HD are very dificult to find, but he went overboard in getting one...why? Because I wanted it in my Dream Machine. Many of you have inquired about having one built. Let's see how mine turns out. Suppose to get it on Friday. Because it will be running 6 monitors (6 ATI video cards) and he wants to make sure the computer is kept really cool, he spent a lot of time finding the newest stuff out for cooling the case. When he gets mine up and going, he's going to put a 'Dream Machine' up on his web site so people can click to order and he'll have them already built so that it won't take as long. I'm sure it will look similar to mine :-) but you build it the way you want! Here's mine: Message 9267936 Also, My computer will have TWO MICE and TWO KEYBOARDS !!!!! Pretty cool, eh? How is this possible? REALLY NEAT GIZMOS cwol.com Dual Keyboard Adapter - runs two keyboards off one computer ($49.95), Dual Mouse Adapter - runs two pointing devices off one computer (not at the same time) WhyMouse. List price: Starts at $49.95. P.I. Engineering Inc., Williamston, MI; 800-628-3185, 517-655-5523; fax, 517-655-4926. search.zdnet.com S.W.

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (7442)	5/12/1999 7:41:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Does the secondary NT boot, the one Clarence wants to install..the alternate NT boot that you referred to in your machines..have to go in a second partition? or can it go in a second folder on the C drive? First I apologize for not getting back. Sorry, too much $%^%^^&* wk. Apologize also for the four-letter words (e.g., wk). The secondary NT for this purpose can go anywhere. It assumes no hardware failures. You COULD put it on a second drive to protect against certain types of hardware and software failures, but IMO that would be a lot of trouble for minuscule return. HOWEVER, there's no bar to having it on another drive, nor any particular downside that I can see, so you might opt to do that for a number of reasons. You do get a slight marginal extra protection. FWIW, both my primary and backup NTs are on the same physical drive. This may raise a flag for others <g>. I know that's not quite what you asked. As for another directory in the same partition versus another partition, I have one comment: The only advantage of another partition that I know about is that you can keep the same name for the NT partition, which you can't if it's on the same partition. I have not had success booting a cloned NT from a different directory name, though you're supposed to be able to do that. Whether this is something stupid I've done or a more general problem I have not been able to figure out. I haven't spent a heck of a lot of time on it, though. Spots