Comments on: Early PC Retirement

By: linuxlove

linuxlove — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:00:22 +0000

Ahh… My Master System has:

* Pentium III @ 800MhZ
* 15GB Hard Drive (At current)
* 32x DVD+R/RW CD-R/RW
* 384MB RAM I would have 512+, but I need to get a BIOS flash, to get the latest in ‘08 BIOS’s. Using Award BIOS 2000.
* ATI RAGE 128 PRO PCI
* Sound Blaster PCI
* 3 1/2 Inch FLOPPY drive
* 5.25 inch floppy drive, 1.2 Meg
* Windows ME (a.k.a Windows MFE: Multiple Fatal Exceptions)

By: admin

admin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:23:39 +0000

I’m still doing some troubleshooting on Valentine. But I don’t think it’s a software issue. The crashes are just too random, but still it’s pretty predictable that the sucker will crash at some point when I’m playing a Steam game.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:41:17 +0000

Perhaps you should consider a Dell Vostro. They’ve been selling them here in Australia, targeting them at small businesses. The good thing is that they come with no bloatware unless you specify it (I think they come with the OS, PowerDVD and Sonic by default, unless you request otherwise). Not sure if they are there in the States, but if they are there, it’s worth it. They come in Laptop or Desktop, but only in black, not the prettyful colours the home models. I’d buy one, but I’ve my heart set on a BlackBook\Black MacBook.

Sorry to hear about Valentine’s retirement, perhaps she’d be ready to be sent back to XP?

My XP computer is around 8 or 9 years old, is a Pentium 3 450MHz, has a 8GB and 6GB hard drive, and 128MB of RAM (Don’t Laugh). It’s most technologically advanced things are a Sony 52×32x52x CD Burner, and an external 250GB Hard drive. It’s called PROMETHE-J22A98, because it’s the default name that has stuck. She’ll be replaced by the MacBook one day. It is an ex-government system, and runs quite well. It originally had Windows 95 on it!