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Styx · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject:

Id just buy a new CPU cooler heatsink and all (remember you'll need to apply a new layer of thermal compund I suggest Arctic Silver).

Kellan Meig'h · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject:

Styx · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:18 am Post subject:

Hmm, Weather it's slot 1 or a socket 370 that will be very hard to find these days. I think your best bet is to find a local shop that sells the fans and take the bad one in with you to show them they should be able to get you a replacement. I'm not sure but I think you would measure the radius of the fan blades.

Kellan Meig'h · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject:

Mike-

More info needed here. Version of Outlook you're using and are you using windows Live! hotmail or the basic hotmail?

It looks like there are some issues here just by trying my Windows Mail with my Hotmail acct.

Kellan

Nicolai Borovskaya · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject:

Mike, your best bet for generational archive storage is still tape. Get a decent tape drive and back up that stuff there. Be aware that you will need to have a compatible tape drive when you want to recover your data/images/etc. So buying an extra and storing it with the tapes might not be a bad idea. Loading the software for the drive (then) will be another issue entirely.

Nothing else will last anywhere near as long as a decent magnetic tape properly stored. There are tapes from the 60's that are still perfectly readable, if you can find a drive that works.

I have no idea of the storage life of thumb drives. Any one out there know? I'm curious, too.

Nicolai

Asalis · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject:

Those things usually last for years. Though I'd personally reccomend an SD card reader. I've seen some SD cards with some pretty impressive storage capacity. Though they're a lot smaller than thumb drives and you could carry it in your wallet. :3

Styx · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:44 am Post subject:

Okay I am try to find a way to install older versions of windows on my system I mean older win 98se or Me. Why you ask, because I would very much like to play some of my older games that will not play on vista or even XP. The thing is the newer motherboards will not support the older versions of Windows. Anyone got any ideas?

anthony · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject:

The biggest hurdle is usually that modern PCs have SATA drives.
That and you can never find a good video driver for them.

My suggestion is to either get an old clunker, or to look into some virtualisation SW and run on your PC.

Styx · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:22 pm Post subject:

anthony · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:34 pm Post subject:

I think MS gave away Virtual PC for free for a while, and you may be able to find it on the net if you search a bit. (They have now made it a part of W7, so there's no download on their site anymore... )

If you run an older PPC Mac, though, the best bet is Guest PC.
(This costs a bit of money, but my iBook 1.33GHz is capable of running an older Windooze at a fair speed)

Styx · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:15 pm Post subject:

AAAAAHHH! You made read the word MAC *Gouges out eyes* Ahh! I typed it now have cut of my hads nuuuuuuu!

anthony · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject:

You want sick?

Listening to the W2K logon sound on my 1999 Psion netBook(190MHz StrongARM CPU/32MB RAM) as I log into a server at the office.
(Only did that once. Dialled in with aGPRS-enabled GSM-phone and used a Citrix ICA-client)

I have a PC emulator for that one, too...
(Rumours have it someone once got Win 3.1 running on it)

What's wrong with using a Mac?

I also have a 'PC' card for older NUBUS-based Macs, and even a similar card for SUN SparcStations...

BTW:
'MAC' means Media Access Control and refers to the HW address on your network card.
'Mac' on the other paw, is short for Macintosh, and was the name used for the line of computers launched in 1984, to replace the aging Apple ][ series.
(Search long enough, and you'd probably be able to find a PC emulator for the ][. Never mind that the original IBM PC was far more powerful than the ][ )

Styx · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:19 pm Post subject:

Nothing I guess, I just hate Macs

Kellan Meig'h · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject:

Hawke · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:53 pm Post subject:

For the older games, I assume you have tried compatibility mode, you can look into VMware... which is not free as far as I know, or http://www.virtualbox.org/ which is both free and supposedly really good. I havent used it but its got good reviews... and supports pretty much all of windows OS's.