[PVRCNC] Re: [PVRC] A cautionary tale about computers

[K4JA Paul]

Hello Pete

I just did more less the same thing. I re used my IBM hard drives, Even
though the drives are fairly late model I ended up re-installing WIN2000.  I
used  Athlon XP 1600+ processor's and a fairly cheap mother Board with the
New DDR ram.  I was amazed at how cheaply they can be configured.  I did 4
Logging PC's for less than $1000.

Also the on board voice card and networking works better than anything I
have used.  I thought the stuff I was using was pretty good.






----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: <pvrc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 13 November, 2002 14:04
Subject: [PVRC] A cautionary tale about computers


> Just thought I'd pass along a tale with some warnings for the unwary, like
me.
>
> I recently decided to upgrade from my 200 MHz Pentium to a modern machine.
> I bought an Athlon XP 1700+ processor, Asus motherboard, DDR memory, a big
> hard drive and Drivecopy.  My thought was to migrate the existing contents
> of my hard drive to the new one.  I'd done this two or three times before,
> with minimal difficulty, though never changing quite so much at once.
>
> What a nightmare -- it took almost a week of long days to get things
> right.  The big problem is the registry in Windows 98 (I presume also true
> of ME and XP) which contains a LOT of hardware-specific stuff, and all the
> changes in motherboard specs since 1998 (when my last motherboard was
> made).  There is a site called www.windowsreinstall.com which should be
> required reading for anyone who gets into this one.  Their tip to run
> C:\scanreg /restore from DOS when you screw up your registry, all by
itself
> is worth the time spent reading there.
>
> Another caution -- Asus makes good motherboards, but their support is
> somewhere between terrible and non-existent.  They have no telephone
number
> in the US for motherboard support. I had one of six e-mails answered by
> their support people in Taiwan, and their web site -- which has a
> potentially excellent user forum on it -- is screwed up and down more than
> it is up.
>
> On the plus side -- DriveCopy works perfectly.  It's by the same people
who
> make Partition Magic.  These people really know hard drives!  And boy, is
> this new machine fast...
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
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