Have new computer now... testing

[kellyinkc]

In!! Whoa! MOL never looked so good.
Thanks for all your help in buying computer.

[Tim Lingor]

Congrats Kelly!

Mine is starting to act up, so a new one may be in my future as well.

Tim

[kellyinkc]

Thanks Tim. Went from a 15" to a 17"screen, man what a difference. See if Megs has a friends and family day at a Officemax. That's what ours did, got one heck of a deal.
Specs: AMD 3400+
512 DDR RAM
160GB HD
They gave us 200.00 US off, no rebates!
Now just need to learn this PC as well as the other PC!

[sneek]

congrats on the new computer
lol you will be a computer pro in a few weeks
are you running windows XP?

[kellyinkc]

Originally posted by sneek
congrats on the new computer
lol you will be a computer pro in a few weeks
are you running windows XP?

yes WP. Whole new world from Windows 95

[rusty bumper]

Originally posted by kellyinkc
yes WP. Whole new world from Windows 95

Wow!.......That "is" a jump.

XP is much more stable than 95 or 98 in my opinion. You can shut down an offending program without having to reboot....(Most of the time anyway).

Did your's come with a restore disk, or is it built into the hard-drive? A friend of ours took a jump from 95 to XP and I came over to assist her with the initial hookup. Her's was an HP Pavilion and the restore info was built into the drive itself....No disk!

[rusty bumper]

Originally posted by kellyinkc
...Went from a 15" to a 17"screen, man what a difference.....

I did the same back in November.

You can see paint defects a lot easier too. Went back and checked out some of my posted photos and saw swirls!........How embarrassing!

[kellyinkc]

Picture is much brighter now. Wish I had a T1 line like at work...

No disk, need to look on HD tonight. Gotta work all day

Gotta run

[Tim Lingor]

Originally posted by Rusty Bumper
Wow!.......That "is" a jump.

XP is much more stable than 95 or 98 in my opinion. You can shut down an offending program without having to reboot....(Most of the time anyway).

Did your's come with a restore disk, or is it built into the hard-drive? A friend of ours took a jump from 95 to XP and I came over to assist her with the initial hookup. Her's was an HP Pavilion and the restore info was built into the drive itself....No disk!

Hey RB,

My Pavillion has a partitioned hard drive where the restore is located. I am not sure if I like that feature or not. I have had to use it once, and it worked just fine. But there is something about having the disk that makes me feel a little better.

Tim

[rusty bumper]

Originally posted by 2hotford
Hey RB,

My Pavillion has a partitioned hard drive where the restore is located. I am not sure if I like that feature or not. I have had to use it once, and it worked just fine. But there is something about having the disk that makes me feel a little better.

Tim

I know.

I was concerned that if our friend's HP hard disk died, then I guess the OS goes with it?

I wonder if there is a way to copy the restore files to another source? Would be a good question to ask HP.

[rusty bumper]

Originally posted by Rusty Bumper
Would be a good question to ask HP.

Here's a link I found that looks like it might be of help to all of you HP/Compac computer owners that don't have a separate System Restore Disk. It appears that you are allowed to burn (1) copy of the restore files to a CD or DVD.

[kellyinkc]

Hey, was reading manual on lunch break. It tells how to make a copy of System Restore Disk. Will need to do this.
Question: Do I need to do it now? Also need to get Service Pack 2 from Microsoft?. Or should I wait for DSL? Consumer reports recommends it. Thanks.

[SiriusRIMZ]

If your using 56k, deff wait until you get a faster internet, those service packs are large, and take me a while to download.

Good choice on AMD processor. They seems to be more stable than the P4 Prescotts, or at least more than mine, Of course I'm running 3.6GHz overclocked hehe.

You'll love XP, its sooo much better than 95 or 98. Isn't it amazing what a differnce a monitor makes? I upgraded from a CRT 15" to a Flat Screen Sony 19" its great!

Enjoy your new system!

[skyace888]

Service Pack 2 should already be installed on your computer. It was available in 2004 and is nothing new. To make sure you have it, right-click on "My Computer" and go to "Properties." Alternatively, you can press the Windows key and the Pause key together. This will bring up the System Properties screen. What you probably will need to download is some critical updates from the Windows Update site. For that, I would wait until you get a faster Internet connection.

[rusty bumper]

Originally posted by skyace888
Service Pack 2 should already be installed on your computer.

I agree.

Kelly, if SP2 is not on your machine then PM a mailing address to me and I will burn you a copy of it. MS (Microsoft) sent me a copy of SP2 in the mail right after it came out.

It's about 250mb in size and would take a mighty long time to download via dial-up!