ATTENTION U.S. RESIDENTS:

i know i have posted this before, but its getting close to christmas once again.. if you are in the US and have some old PC parts just lying around, i would be glad to take them off your hands.. i would pay the postage, assuming you sent it snail mail and cheap :wink:

as i have said before, i attempt to take old computers and reformat them for kids who have no opportunity to own one.. right now, i am in dire straights for hard drives of the 2 to 3 gig variety.. i have some 10's and 20's, but it seems a waste to use one of those on an old 200 or 300 mhz comp.

anywho's, if you have an old comp, or parts of one.. gimme a yell.

I thought the correct vernacular was "gimme a holler." That's what my crazy grandma always says. Anyway, I'd give you parts if I had them, I can't just steal them from school anymore. :sad: Damn door locks.

It's october.

And you're saying we're close to Christmas?! :razz:

G.Ballblue said:
It's october.

And you're saying we're close to Christmas?! :razz:

blue, you're doing it again.. need i call reno in to reign you in :heee:

Ballblue, you're an idiot. It said "ATTENTION U.S. RESIDENTS" not "ATTENTION IDIOTS." I know they're pretty close but you're still an exception. It takes time for parts to travel and then for Orph to put them together and THEN for him to distribute them to today's youngsters.

Orpheus said:

G.Ballblue said:
It's october.

And you're saying we're close to Christmas?! :razz:

blue, you're doing it again.. need i call reno in to reign you in :heee:

No. But I still haven't quite put my finger on how October is close to December. That's a 2 month difference you know.

/me sits there for a minute looking at my submit-a-post screen.

Oh wait, you're bitchin' about how I just over-disected your post, right? :biggrin:

/scoots away

sighs

you're ruining my thread..

Ballblue, you're an idiot. It said "ATTENTION U.S. RESIDENTS"
not "ATTENTION IDIOTS." I know they're pretty close but you're still an
exception. It takes time for parts to travel and then for Orph to put
them together and THEN for him to distribute them to today's
youngsters.

US residents and idiots are not close alike. US government and idiots are :rolleyes:

Jon, I have many a spare parts, unfortunatly, it might not be worth it
seeing as how Im not in the US, border charges are expensive last time
I checked.

Wild Card said:
Jon, I have many a spare parts, unfortunatly, it might not be worth it seeing as how Im not in the US, border charges are expensive last time I checked.

its the thought that counts nick :smile:

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Jon, I have many a spare
parts, unfortunatly, it might not be worth it seeing as how Im not in
the US, border charges are expensive last time I checked.

its the thought that counts nick :smile:

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Thought? Your the one doing the good deeds here boss :razz: Computers for needy kids. Ah well, we cant all help.

Thats really nice of you orph.

Wild Card said:
Your the one doing the good deeds here boss

its for selfish reasons i assure you :wink:

every time i am successful, i get more confident.. i am 100% self taught, as far as the hands on portion, what i don't know, i ask here of course.. but for the most part its trial and error, as my recent bios flash screwup shows

anyways, the kiddies get the goods, but i gain the knowledge :smile:

its a fair trade.

Well I got an old Packard Bell with Windows 3.1 on it if ya want it. :\

I have an old packard bell I could give you. I need to check with my dad first though.

i don't want to sound ungrateful, but old, as in p200, not old as in 5 1/4" floppy guys

finding software that will run on anything older than a 200 mhz is nigh impossible..

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Your the one doing the good deeds here boss

its for selfish reasons i assure you :wink:

every time i am successful, i get more confident.. i am 100% self
taught, as far as the hands on portion, what i don't know, i ask here
of course.. but for the most part its trial and error, as my recent
bios flash screwup shows

anyways, the kiddies get the goods, but i gain the knowledge :smile:

its a fair trade.

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As far as knowledge goes, I have a question. Do you do anything
to the hard drive or just stick it in? I mean, a nice delete and
re-creation of a partition as well as a full format after that is a
great way to ensure the kids get a trouble-free drive as well as
protecting any previous information the drive stored previously.

i don't want to sound ungrateful, but old, as in p200, not old as in 5 1/4" floppy guys

finding software that will run on anything older than a 200 mhz is nigh impossible..

Hey I took apart a 286 and a "personal computer" the other day.
Man those things we're old. One had a 127mb hard drive, the other
had a 75mb hard drive on 2 platters. It had a 5.25inch floppy
drive which I can only assume was bleeding-edge technology back in
those days.

if i manage to get a functional comp, i "Fdisk" it, deleting the partitions, then i make one, then i reformat, then i install an operating system compliant with the PC's ability, in other words, if its old, i put in win98se, if it can handle more i put in ME, and if it has enough ram/HD space, and so forth, i put in either win2000pro, or XP pro.

the 500 i borked, had XPpro :sad:

i also am playing around with windows longhorn 4053build.. it looks nice from the screens, but i cannot find a minimum sys spec chart to see how much pc its gonna need to work.

there is BTW, a plugin to make winXP look like longhorn, you might look at it.. tis cool beaners :biggrin:

Here is what ill have soon, don't know if I want to sell them or not on e-bay, im trying to get some money back, but maybe the christmas bug will bite me and ill feel generous......Heres what i got:

Mother Board: P4 socket 478; 800MHz fsb; built in video card, autio card, and lan card; 1 AGP slot (forgot what speed 4x??); 3 PCI card slots; 4 DDR RAM slots.

Processor: P4 2.8c GHz fro socket 476

RAM: 2 512mb Ram (I think they are DDR400 PC 2700)

If I cant sell these parts online then ill look to you orph.

cool deal bud :smile:

sell them if you can, if nothin else, i understand recouping your expenditures :smile:

i will still be here.. your list looks cool though.

as i said, you'd be surprised just how damned hard it is to find a 3 gig hard drive :sad:

Orpheus said:
as i said, you'd be surprised just how damned hard it is to find a 3 gig hard drive :sad:

Umm I think I gave a friend a 4 gig hard drive (and since its been used soo much there is probably 3 gigs left) and I can get it back probably :biggrin:

If you don't want my packard bell then, I could give you my NEC with windows 95 :biggrin:

(never!)

Good stuff Jon. Fdisk is your friend lol.

As for Windows Longhorn, I read up in a Maximum PC magasine I remember I think the specs we're still high. Including the need for a 3D video card due to the 3D GUI that Longhorn uses.

Personnaly Im not really overjoyed about longhorn lol.

if, one spends bucks on a card just to play a game, an operating system would be a better reason wouldn't you think?

besides, just how big a card? most of us have at least a 32 meg hunk-o-junk already.

i may end up not liking it, but it sure is pretty from the screens :biggrin:

That isn't true. You just can't put anything but 98 (in the windows universe) on anything below 133Mhz.
I believe you can put XP on a 150. I had a 133 and it had 2000 on it for awhile.

It just wont run very fast.

Also, Orph, dear lord, never make partitions using DOS, EVER.

Just delete the partisions and try installing XP, it has a set lower bound on what it can run on and what it can't. If it can't run XP put on 98SE, DO NOT BOTHER WITH MILLENIUM. This will save you so much time, and it's a more effecient process. As far as Windows goes.

yes father :smile:

i, use win98 only if the pc just cant handle more.. seriously, who would want 2000 on a 133

anywho's.. i am learning, as long as you are around, you can keep me straight :smile:

Yeah, well, are you going to stop doing it the way you said? If not I think it'd be time for a time out.

And it wasn't that bad, I just didn't have much of anything installed; it was a useless computer.

I'd say take all the trash I have laying around my house, but I doubt you want it, it is in the area you're speaking, but the problem is, you can't really say, "Yeah, I'll take that board", because you have no idea what processor it takes, or ram type. I think most of the board and ram I have is SIMM. O-L-D

Orpheus said:
yes father :smile:

i, use win98 only if the pc just cant handle more.. seriously, who would want 2000 on a 133

anywho's.. i am learning, as long as you are around, you can keep me straight :smile:

Are you indicating you would be gay if it wasent for Crono? :biggrin:

I'll have to check with my brother, but I have an old PII 300 I could send your way. It's been sitting around outside any sort of case for a long time, so I'll need to check if it still works at all...

good stuff guys..

and nick.. bad, really bad :razz:

Wild Card said:

i don't want to sound ungrateful, but old, as in p200, not old as in 5 1/4" floppy guys

finding software that will run on anything older than a 200 mhz is nigh impossible..

Hey I took apart a 286 and a "personal computer" the other day. Man those things we're old. One had a 127mb hard drive, the other had a 75mb hard drive on 2 platters. It had a 5.25inch floppy drive which I can only assume was bleeding-edge technology back in those days.

back in the days when floppy disks were actually floppy lol.

as i have said before, i attempt to take old computers and reformat them for kids who have no opportunity to own one..

Seriously Orph, that's very kind of you :smile:

I can't help since I have nothing to give and I live far away over here :biggrin:

Good luck with your work though :smile:

Orpheus said:
yes father :smile:

i, use win98 only if the pc just cant handle more.. seriously, who would want 2000 on a 133

anywho's.. i am learning, as long as you are around, you can keep me GAY :smile:

Fixed.

blushes

payback is a bitch, but i knew you were up to the task..

thankyou kind sir..

so now, i'm gay, and you're a penis.. whatever will we do with ourselves :heee:

/giggles

It's october.

And you're saying we're close to Christmas?! :razz:

Remember he has to get these parts mailed to him, then create the
computers, test the hardware and software and then send them out to the
unfortunate children of today. I may be of a young age of 16, but the
Orpheus is rather a hell of a lot nicer than I am, and its good to see
someone doing something like this for free.

EDIT: If they did something like this in the UK I could donate some stuff I don't use.

Yep, I've got like 4 old PC's in my room (I just use them as storage
space for backups, or advanced typewriters :razz: ), and I'd love to send
some up, but ehm ... mailing old heavy junk to America would be rather
expensive.

But I love what you're doing, Orph. I don't want to make fun of your age (really), but you make me think of Santa Claus :smile:

Have you seen Orph and Santa Claus together?

I want a big cherry-flavored candy cane! :dorky:

orph standing with santa claus? Sounds like orph IS santa claus. Nice to see some people in society still aren't assholes. Wow do I hate the world or what.

I applaud you orpheus

blushes

some would argue otherwise fokker..

but on a serious note, i do this every years, post it on the nets anyways, and when tracer bullets parts get here, it will be the very first time some one took the time to send stuff this way :biggrin: [edit] let me rephrase that, some have sent them, but the postal service lost them

if anyone needs applause, its people like tracer bullet, not me.. i enjoy fiddling with PC's to much to get kudos for doing it :smile:

lol how bout i give you both credit and call it good?

you bet :smile:

blows dust from old thread

ok, someone gave me an old Packard Bell Legend 402cd..

i have looked up socket 5 mobo's, they can run at 75-133 mhz..

i have some spare socket 5 microprocessors.. it is currently running at 75, but i cannot seem to locate the jumpers to increase it to 133 (or actually to increase it to anything other than 75)

anyone have a site for really old mobo's i can look on?

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/8774/pb600.html#PB%20600

Looks like the jumper you want is Jumper32 (CPU Multiplyer)

Crono said:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/8774/pb600.html#PB%20600

Looks like the jumper you want is Jumper32 (CPU Multiplyer)

i thank you whole heartedly.. this mobo, is the one i kept finding too.. its close but not exact, the only thing i can figure out is back then many boards that were similar were american versions and canadian versions, maybe this is a similar issue.. BUT this is the real mobo..

took a nights sleep to get my head around finding the mobo designation number.. these old boards are not as clearly marked as the newer ones..

thanx a million crono.. the comp now runs at a solid 133 .. not much, but a marked improovement over 75 :biggrin:

[edited for crono]

Yeah, well, you didn't say which board it was. All I could find were PB600 boards. Which isn't that, obviously.

bumps

Master Obadiah Reid's PC parts arrived today.. I would like to express my deepest thanks.

Thankyou for taking the time T.B.

bumps

after forgetting the envelope was on the TV for nearly a week, i finally remembered long enough to put it in the mail..

your postage due is winging its way to oregon..

thanx a bunch TB :smile:

Cool. I'd actually forgotten all about it. :smile:

Tracer Bullet said:
Cool. I'd actually forgotten all about it. :smile:

yeah well, i'd rather not be known as a moocher :smile:

it should arrive in looks at watch about that long i suppose..

4 to 5 days at the most.

Unless the Oregon Post Office screws you over too TB.

I was suppose to get all these letters from someone in NJ, out of 8 I received one.

I go to the post office and go, "What the f**k!". They go, "Sorry ...". So, I kicked the teller in the face and robbed him, stole his car, and made love to his wife for reparations ... :smile: