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Thank you Bob, -
It seems to me a natural way of thinking. However, when someone have
problems to run a new machine, like I do, mind could be preoccupied
with a lot of thoughts and especially in the beginning and could be
"frozen up".
This is very fine thought.
Val
----- Original Message -----
From: "BobR" <bobrabcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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