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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Computers
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 21:53:49 -0700
At 07:45 PM 03/11/2001 -0500, John Pendley wrote:

[snip]

>Did you install it over the old OS or reformat the hard drive and install it 
>clean?

Did a clean install.  It just asks you to insert your previous OS's CD to 
validate that you can use the upgrade.

[snip]

>Did you have to back up all data files before installing?

Yeah, but on my system, that's easy -- I use removable hard drives, and there's 
always two in the bays, so I just copied all the data over to drive two, 
re-formatted the Win98SE on drive one, and installed XP.

>Another important issue for me is whether Word for Windows 2000 and Excel 2000 
>will work on XP.  I already know that Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0 will not work; 
>it has to be 5.1.

Yes, they work fine.  (At least, mine do.)

>>All this for the price of $149.00 CDN for the upgrade.  Mind you, the target 
>>PC already came tricked out with lots of memory (>256 MByte RAM).  If you 
>>don't have at least 256 MByte RAM, the new O/S may puke a bit.  But these 
>>days, RAM's damn near free, and the store I got the upgrade O/S from was 
>>actually *giving away* 128 Megs of RAM with every sale.
>
>I've got a 550 mh PC w/128 mb of RAM.  I know I'll have to buy more.  I've 
>never installed RAM and don't even know what kind I must have.  Guess I'll buy 
>it from Gateway (my PC manufacturer) and let them walk me through it.  While 
>I'm at it, I might as well pack it to the max.

RAM's the cheapest upgrade you can get that dramatically improves the 
performance of a computer, regardless of whether it's Intel or Motorola core.  
Typical RAM is at least 1,000 times faster than the fastest EIDE or SCSI hard 
drive, and when you're doing a few million paging operations, that counts.

BTW, anyone can install RAM.  My brother (who may be the most non-technical 
person in existence) actually did it without any problems.  If he can do it, 
anyone can.  Going through Gateway's probably a good idea, although you could 
probably just take your motherboard's manual into any competent shop and they'd 
find the type of RAM you require specified in the manual.

>>Seems to me that buying a whole new computer is overkill.
>
>Yes, but I do need something that will install a SCSI or FireWire card and 
>something that doesn't crash as often.

Should do.  It recognized my SCSI card as well as my second parallel port card 
and the EIDE Ultra100 expansion card without incident.

Garth


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