Re: I hate friends of friends with computers....
- From: no@xxxxxxxxxxxx (digisol)
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:41:16 GMT
Run the HDD diagnostic s/w just to be sure, check all as if building
the thing from scratch.
Examine the O/S disk surface, if it's been resurfaced "to remove
scratches" it's RS, sorry, clean it either way just in case it still
works.
Once inside the bios set all as per the manual, most settings are OK
to get any system to run, except for the boot order, video card to
boot off etc PCI / AGP, set the system to CD as first boot, then HDD
and Floppy, NOTE; of course the diagnostic s/w will run off a floppy
so it will have to be changed to floppy first when running that
software.
Most XP systems, home or pro on even slow systems take about 30 - 40
min to finish including SP-2 and also formatting the drive to NTFS
the long way, don't do it the short way, problems WILL happen.
You will find experienced users near you that will install the o/s for
a carton of beer, it's not rocket science, really it's not hard.
Generally with a new system the first thing to do after the build is
to FDISK the hard drive, simple enuf done with a 98 floppy boot disk,
once done set the system to boot on the CD first and restart it with
the o/s CD allready in, it will ask you press any key to boot off the
CD, do it, it will ask to format the drive, let it do it the "long
way", the rest of the install is pretty simple stuff, answer yes/no,
set the time zone/date, enter the install code etc etc, install the
vid card driver first, and M/B drivers and your in buisness apart
from installing your software, do the AV first, the rest is all
simple stuff.
Never let any kid open "or use" your PC no matter how smart he says he
is, I have one system here now worth 3K where the mother let her kid
inside it to add a network card, now the CPU, HDD, M/B, memory and
CDROM are completely RS, basically nothing works the system is dead,
but he knew it all ??? NOT, even any PC business will help you out
for <$50AUD for a system build and o/s install, as it's easy for
anyone that does it every day.
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