Re: Putting 40 gig hard drive into a 1996 PC
- From: "Xu" <xuxuxuxu@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 13:25:22 -0600
You're not going to want to buy memory for that thing. It has to be sdram so
you ought to go to newegg.com or memory.com and look at how much sdram
pc2100 at just 128mb costs. And I am being liberal by saying it is pc2100.
Download this and run it:
http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-131.zip
It might tell you what your motherboard is and what type of memory is
already in there. I say might because it won't read my pc from 1998,
although it does tell me what chipset and cpu I have. You might get lucky
though.
You should also be able to take a panel off your computer to see if there
are any markings or writings or numbers on the motherboard that might
indicate what you got inside that thing. Also, when you boot up, do you see
anything on the screen that says "bios"?
One more piece of advice. If you haven't already, go to the Windows 98 group
and post your question there about your hdd problem. Your problem was
actually quite common back in the day :)
"Adrian C" <1232581@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Dureing the weekend, I installed a 40gb Seagate hard drive into
> friend's old computer. The date of the BIOS was 1996.
>
> As I was running Fdisk after installing the drive, the program told
> me that the BIOS could be configured to recognise the "new large hard
> drives bigger than 2gb" and did I want that option? I selected "yes".
>
> Later on, after loading Windows 98, I noticed that as the PS was
> booting up (before getting to Windows), the on-screen text reported
> the hard drive as being only 8-something gb.
>
> Stupidly, I forgot to note what size Windows reported the hard drive
> as. I can't telephone her to ask her, but have to go back next weekend
> to finish setting the PC up.
>
> Should I take along any special software to get the PC to report the
> size of the hard drive correctly?
>
> Thank you
>
> Adrian
>
>
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