Today I'm re-building a Laptop

[Nick VR4]

I have a very old Laptop Toshiba Tecra 780DVD
Its massivily chunky lol

Its my old company one INSERT INTO post VALUES (yeah I kept it):p
It was running NT on it now going to intall Win 2000 pro

Yestarday I managed to remember my old password
Started to delete stuff and must of hit the delete key to much :nono:
Got a error on bootup missing kurnel :confused:

So went in to bios and set up to boot from CD so were installing 2000 pro as I type this

Will post later news on this days event :D

[BraindG]

more importantly, hows the weather?
:p

[Nick VR4]

OMG :eek:

Its actually working :D :D
Just installed Office Pro
And now the McAfee Firewall is done
Next is McAfee VirusScan 4.51
After that it will be AOL only problem with this lappy is no USB ports so can't use Broadband heyho

[BraindG]

I just rebuilt my machine over the weekend, was fed up with it going so damn slow.. Tried to defrag it, as it looked like a spaghetti rainbow - it was that fragmented, it just laughed at me and said, this is the best I can do..

you seem to be getting on fairly quickly :)
/pats on back

[Nick VR4]

Originally posted by BraindG
I just rebuilt my machine over the weekend, was fed up with it going so damn slow.. Tried to defrag it, as it looked like a spaghetti rainbow - it was that fragmented, it just laughed at me and said, this is the best I can do..

you seem to be getting on fairly quickly :)
/pats on back

Ohhh thought I was hitting issues earlier
Couldnt connect to WWW I sussed it out though
Don't use the Broadband filter

connect straight to socket

I'm a happy chappy now
pats self on back too
:D

[Nick VR4]

Ok last update I hope

Installed Windows 2000 Pro
Office Pro
McAfee Fire wall
McAfee VirusScan 4.51
Win 2000 Service Patch 4 INSERT INTO post VALUES (119mb) :mad:
MS03-026 vulnerability Patch
Latest DAT files for VirusScan inc updated engine

And also got it up to 192mb Ram

Ok so not the fastest of machines but will keep me on the WWW when up in Fleetwood with Girlfriend

:cool1: :boing1: :boing2: :boing3: :hurrah:

[Nick VR4]

Defrag will only work well if you have at least 15% of spare disk space
Otherwise it goes a bit spammy

[Nick VR4]

I've have just found 2 usb ports hiding away
The little :monkey1: :monkey1:

[Brind]

My puter is full of crap too, I really should stop downloading free trials! :rolleyes: I haven't a clue what most of them are now.
I have an 80GB HD totally full and a 60GB with WindowsXP and about 8GB free space, and a 120GB slowly decreasing in size. :INSERT INTO post VALUES ( bought a DVD writer the weekend so that has been keeping me quiet. :)


I gave my dad my old PC when I built my own, it only has an AMD K6 2 3D processor and 128MB of ram, he bought a 128mb PCI graphics card the other day to speed it up, the main board doesn't have AGP unfortunately and everything is zapping power from the CPU.
The card hasn't really helped! he is also running XP which has made it slower compared to when it was on 98.
Can't afford to go out and buy a whole new unit.

The computer is still very jerky.. would upping the RAM memory help and if so how much do reckon would be enough? :confused: :confused:

[Nick VR4]

Have you tried upping the virtual memory ???

I would guess upping the mem to 256 would help a lot to be honest

I have a AMD athlon xp 1800+
1.53 Ghz and 224 Ram and it wizzes a long

[Brind]

I've tried the virtual memory but it hasn't improved a great deal, the hard drive is very slow aswell. :INSERT INTO post VALUES (

So you reckon bung in another 128mb stick?

I have the same processor as you in my comp, I do alot of video compression and the like and it works a treat. :)

[Spirit]

Nick

Try the set up I have with my laptop and PC - got a Belkin Wireless USB Adapter into the PC and a Belkin Wireless Notebook card in the laptop and got wireless broadband on the laptop with BT Openworld :D

Just got to have the PC fired up as well of course but it allows me to roam around the house/garden :D Should cost around £95 max for both bits

Pete

[SGHOM]

trying to keep up, but I lost you when Nick VR4 posted " today I'm" ............ lost it then !!!!

[Nick VR4]

Pete
Yeah I was thinking about this earlier wireless does seem good
As long as no one decides to attack you or sniff your network

I only have a 2 bedroom house so it seems a bit pointless to be honest
Plus all I need to do is run a telephone line plugged into
ADSL modem and I could be sitting in the garden with me lappy
Might look into it though
I have some mates INSERT INTO post VALUES (geeky ones lol )that are always buying new stuff for there computers at home
So I might be able to sponge something off them :D