Brand new puter


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Old 01-28-03, 08:10 PM
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Brand new puter

I worked on my buddy's truck and he paid me with a brand-new-never-used PC hard drive, has CD-RW, 3.5 drive and an extra 3.5 drive! wooo hoooo


Now I am very competent, have always been able to install/configure programs once on.

But after I unlock this baby ( I got the keys to the hard drive), how do I go about installing what I want on it?
 
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Old 01-28-03, 09:26 PM
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Ummm...i dont know if i understand the terminology....

>>>I worked on my buddy's truck and he paid me with a brand-new-never-used PC hard drive, has CD-RW, 3.5 drive and an extra 3.5 drive! wooo hoooo>>But after I unlock this baby ( I got the keys to the hard drive), how do I go about installing what I want on it?
 
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Old 01-28-03, 09:32 PM
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Ok this is a tower, supposed to be a 586SX (I dont care and am happy with that!)

I have bunches of meces LOL (mice), keyboards,monitors,etc.

This tower case has the three drives in it, a CDRW and 2 3.5 drives.

As before (above) NO software-DOS-etc.on it,

I unlocked it, where do I go from here: after hooking up to monitor-keybd-printer. Now what do I do to install DOS,etc. on it.

I hook it up and get no anything......
tell me what to do!

Thx
 
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If it has a brand new HD, you need to F-Disk the HD, then format it. Get an OS for it and install that, you should be ready to go.

Give us some more specs about the computer: HD size, amount of RAM installed, etc etc etc and maybe we can make some suggestions for you. We don't have much to work with so far. Sorry.
 
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Old 01-28-03, 09:59 PM
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If it really is a 586: it looks like as far as microsoft, windows 95/98 might be the maximum choice. any idea what you would like to use it for?
1995 brought the 5x86 chips, and the misleading name game got more complicated. Both used a 486 pin-out and 486-style 32-bit memory addressing, and both claimed Pentium (i.e Intel 586) performance. The Cyrix 5x86 was more advanced than any 486, but less advanced than the Pentium or its AMD and Cyrix equivalents. It should really have been called a 4½86. A "5x86-100" sounded as fast as a Pentium-100 when in fact it was roughly equal to a Pentium 75. It certainly wasn't a 486, but it wasn't really a "586" either—a "586SX", maybe. The AMD 5x86 had less excuse: it was pure 486 technology all the way, and the only excuse for calling it a "5x86" was that it competed with the 100MHz Cyrix chip and the 75MHz Pentium on equal terms. And of course, as a "5x86-133" it sounded faster than either, which it wasn't.

Sold as:/ But really a:
Intel 486SX /486 "SX" had come to mean "16/32-bit hybrid", these were fully 32-bit .
Cyrix 486SLC /486SX An exact equivalent to the 386SX. Not much faster either.
Intel 486DX/4 /486DX/3 The DX/2 was a clock-doubled 486; the DX/4 was not quad-clocked, only tripled .
Cyrix 5x86 /4½86 or 586SX 32/64-bit hybrid design, like the 16/32-bit 386SX.
AMD 5x86 /486DX/4 or 486DX/5 In the sense that the 100MHz clock-tripled 486 was clearly a "DX/3", these were a "DX/4". Or if you accept the tripled DX/4, then that makes these a "DX/5". Any way you look at it, clearly a 486.
 

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