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Just a suggestion:
Igor, if you haven't already checked the BIOS revision on your mobo you
might want to compare it with the latest Rev on the manufacturer's website.
Sometimes the parts houses will buy an initial production run with a
production BIOS rev and then sell them at below mkt prices of current rev
boards. It looks like a good deal, but it also means you might want to
flash the bios to the current rev or buy a new chip from w.biosworld.com.
The board could be 3 or 4 revs behind. the current one.
Also when you are trying to install W2000 on a machine you are building from
parts, do it on a stripped down machine, like pull all the PCI, ISA cards
and run on one memory stick, and have one floppy, one CD drive, one HD.
Then when W2000 is on the HD and bootable, add current drivers for the
mother board from the mfg CD. Then start adding the other parts back in,
memory sticks first, then the other parts along with their drivers. This
might save you from some headaches due to defective parts. Once it is built
you might consider running some quality control tests on memory and the
cpu(s). Three items that were recommended to me are DocMemory from
http://www.simmtester.com and Prime95 from
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm , and WinTune. If the first two pass
and the third passes a 9 session test, then it should be a stable trading
machine.
bobr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Kaplun" <ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <fritz@xxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: You Should Have Got a DELL, Dude
> Hello Gary, how are you, buddy?
> I am glad that you read my mail.
> I also thing that it is not a trouble at all to build what you want,
> to build the way you want it.
> I got from friend of mine needed tools from Win98 and scan HD that
> Win2k did not like. I scan C: and E: - the first and the last drives
> that Win2k cannot chow. ScanDisk finds no one problem so far! ...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Val
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Fritz" <fritz@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:24 PM
> Subject: Re: You Should Have Got a DELL, Dude
>
>
> > > Hello MRMXYPTLK, - How are you?
> > > By the way what is your << MoRe MaX YPee TaLK >> stands for, dude?
> >
> > Actually he's missing a "z". It's Mr. Myxzptlk -- he was a nasty
> little
> > imp that troubled Superman from time to time.
> >
> > That's almost as obscure as Joe Bfstplk. :-)
> >
> > Anyway, back to the original question: I recently built a system
> too. I'd
> > planned to buy one from Dell, but then I saw Dell's price was
> roughly 2-3x
> > what it would cost me to build an equivalent system. I figured what
> the
> > heck, I wanted to get more familiar with my PC "under the hood"
> anyway, and
> > this way I got to select **exactly** the components I wanted.
> >
> > I don't have Dell's support contract this way, but hell, I could buy
> a
> > SECOND backup PC for less than what Dell's system would cost.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
>
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