03-30-2005, 04:30 AM
I was fortunate enough to get a new Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480W Power Supply, Antec Case, Asus A7N8X-X motherboard, Athlon XP 2800+, 1.5GB of PC2700 RAM, and an HP dvd420i DVD burner for $70 (most of that was for the PS, the rest was a dump of 'old' parts from a coworker).
This has replaced my old XP 2000+ with 512MB of PC2100 RAM. I decided since I pretty much had all my data backed up already and since all the really important stuff was on a second partition to just move the drive from my old A7M266 board to new one. I well aware that XP doesn't redect IDE controllers after it has one, and I got my immediate system reboot when it tried to fire up XP.
So I put my XP with SP2 integrated CD in the drive, booted off that started the install. It detected my current install of XP on the system and asked if I wanted to repair it. I said, sure figure I would end up back at that screen in 30 minutes telling XP set-up to format the partition and then install. I was wrong. The repair worked. 20 minutes later I was logging into my account. I used my USB drive to get the latest nforce drivers from NVidia, installed those and had the new network card, audio and everything else working just fine.
All my applications run without a flaw there isn't really any left over crap in the registry (it actually wiped old hardware entries in the registry). I just had to download a few updates from MS that were release after SP2 and do a reboot.
So what I was thinking was a 5 hour reinstall of OS and apps turned out to be 30 minutes or so because the XP repair function actually works. I'm really floored by this. I'm happy, but I'm floored.
This has replaced my old XP 2000+ with 512MB of PC2100 RAM. I decided since I pretty much had all my data backed up already and since all the really important stuff was on a second partition to just move the drive from my old A7M266 board to new one. I well aware that XP doesn't redect IDE controllers after it has one, and I got my immediate system reboot when it tried to fire up XP.
So I put my XP with SP2 integrated CD in the drive, booted off that started the install. It detected my current install of XP on the system and asked if I wanted to repair it. I said, sure figure I would end up back at that screen in 30 minutes telling XP set-up to format the partition and then install. I was wrong. The repair worked. 20 minutes later I was logging into my account. I used my USB drive to get the latest nforce drivers from NVidia, installed those and had the new network card, audio and everything else working just fine.
All my applications run without a flaw there isn't really any left over crap in the registry (it actually wiped old hardware entries in the registry). I just had to download a few updates from MS that were release after SP2 and do a reboot.
So what I was thinking was a 5 hour reinstall of OS and apps turned out to be 30 minutes or so because the XP repair function actually works. I'm really floored by this. I'm happy, but I'm floored.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.