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| Sukasa Posts: 1809/2068 |
I have a pentium 2 350Mhz that I run most of my stuff (read: all but bittorrent) on. Well, I did get to use a friend's laptop yesterday (Openttd on the net FTW). Otherwise, I jsut do my stuff on tht. I used tyo have a pentium 200Mhz, but windows (vmm32.vxd) died, so I switched it out for a pentium III 500Mhz I haven't gotten workign yet. |
| SuperLuigi64 Posts: 261/281 |
Originally posted by HyperHacker Nice. My Windows 98 box was given, and I say again, given away. But the idiot that got it started having trouble with it, and brought it back to me to fix it, so I did, but he hasn't came and got it. Windows 98 FTW! My brothers computer with XPiece of Crap Home on it has the bare minimum RAM, a tiny hard drive, a DVD ROM, and CD-Burner. This is like a 2001-ish computer, and is horrible. This thing isn't stone age by today's standards, but I have to question why it has an old AMD Duron processor that gets 950Mhz at standard speed inside of it, when much faster CPU's were around. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 3506/5072 |
I have a Win98 box stuck in a corner for whatever long CPU-intensive tasks I may need. And I mean that literally - it's a motherboard, hard drive, CD-ROM, and power supply all crammed in a cardboard box. 
FreeDOS, I can think of at least one good use for that system: Free 128K flash ROM chip.  |
| Metal Man88 Posts: 339/701 |
Try the 486 DX fished out from a dumpster. Windows 3.11 for the win!
Also, I have a Pentium MMX 200MHz, which works fine in almost all aspects, except it has Windows 95 instead of 98 and chugs when it encounters video of any kind. |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 893/1312 |
There's this some crappy Compaq here from late 2001, early 2002. The gist of it.... it doesn't run the WinXP Home OEM copy it came with well, nor a normal retail Windows XP disc. Windows 2000 installs fine, but locks up almost immediately after booting it; Windows 2003 is about the same status of WinXP on that machine. Windows 95/98/Me run fairly well on it (probably the only time all of them are more stable than WinNT; at least on that crap), but the usefulness of those versions is very low. Almost nothing else will even boot, the BIOS likes to spit out read errors for any CD or DVD, which makes it hard to boot or install anything else; it's not the drive, I've tried many known-good drives too. I got Knoppix 3.7 (when that was new  ) once to work on it, but it required five million bootup params and I don't remember them. Ubuntu 4.10 and 5.04 seem to work, though later versions don't. Slackware fails to boot with the CD, along with Debian, Gentoo, CentOS, Fedora, Free/Open/NetBSD, and Arch (I think I remember what I've tried... probably a couple others I forgot). It currently has Windows XP Professional on it, though like I said it doesn't run well at all.
I should stab it one day. Repeatedly. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 3495/5072 |
I was using some ooooooold PCI video card to run my second monitor for a while, but Windows fails at dual video cards, so I just bought a DVI-VGA adapter to run both off one card.
The first card I tried must have been toast, I could extend the desktop to it but if the cursor moved halfway across the second screen it'd freeze the entire system.  |
| Simon Belmont Posts: 945/1773 |
So today I thought maybe this old PCI ATI RAGE 128 I have might be better than my onboard INTEL EXTREEEMEEEE. I was wrong, I suffered a severse decrease in framerate and so-forth. seriously. I can run NWN fine with this PoS onboard, but with that ATI 128 card, I was getting a frame every few seconds. I had to physically remove the card for my on-board to activate again.
it was crazy, in my computer's bay domain. |
