REALLY OLD computer help

[3100 MPFI]

They take long enough to load that you can tell which button to press to go into BIOS. The one that says it needs the disk, I had to go into it to get it to go that far. I didn't try it with the other one.

[the400dollarz24]

to drunk to know what im doingh

http://www.bootdisk.com/ has the files to make a bootable floppy. Then you need a win 95 or 98 install disc. I used to have an NEC 9022 and it ran win 98 ok. But don't try anything crazy like win XP or 2000.

Or try out a linux system.

i have the win 95 disk here still uynopened if you need me to send you a copy
i was trying to quote some one else, but i do have the disk

[torq455]

holy crap ahhahaha!

[Juglenaut]

Have you tried to clear the cmos? Is the battery dead.

Sometimes what can happen on win95 is the boot sector gets alittle corupt but more or less just forgets. The boot or boot sequence on the MFT lost the location in the root sector or highmem as win95 is still purely dos based the boot sector must be for some reason lost. You need a diskboot to redirect where the computer access to load.

Another cause is the root core system file like the config or the autoexec file is corrupt.

It will not even allow DOS?

My first computer was a 286 which could cook eggs, I cooked up repeaters that eventually killed it...Next was a 386 which refitted later to 486SX with turbo lala, thing is a relic now. I also had several Super Socket 7's. Later computer MoBos lead through the ATA race and FSB race and efforts to increace IDE performace.

Leading through the years I was always tilted my cash on AMD and currently have a ECS KA3 extreme MoBo, using 8gb of DDR800 ram 128bit dual channel, 160gb IDE 7200 Maxtor Diamond10 ATA133, have two multi use ultra speed roms, Geforce 7300 GT 128bit 256MB can share upto 512 more, AMD X2 Brisbane 4400+ clocked to balance ram speed at 410mhz (820), HT 1060mhz (2120), FSB 212mhz, dynamic overclock enabled, all in a antec case with about 6 fans two of the 120mm.

Previous build was a Abit NF7 setup as fast as it could fly with a AMD3200+ 400FSB still have it.

[ForcedFirebird]

256mb of ram on a 486? Damn my PII didn't even have that.. (you must have loved having more memory than HD space! RAM DISK! LOL) LOL I'm gonna say 2-4mb? My 486 had 8mb and it was top of the line. I later upgraded it to 16. I had a 14.4 modem which was nice at the time... LOL Ah good old bulletin board days and HTML 1.0. I remember when 2.0 came out animated gifs wooo hooo!

You could load linux on them and use them as a server or something. Or light duty web surfing... Not really sure what good they are for though. Unless you need to run old programs.

hmm, my first was an AT. I had games that went too fast on a 386 DX-33 so I had a 286 for them.

256 megs on a 486? Must have been a server cause I only knew of 16 meg modules back then but most were 1 or 4 meg simms with 8 slots on a board. 40 and 80 meg HD and then 120s.

I think you guys are right, 16mb maybe I forget. That was High School, lol. I do remember it was top of the line. Put a 386 on layaway and upgraded to the 486 before picking it up - it was about $1600 IIRC. 586's came out shortly after.

[pocket-rocket]

My uncles old work had some of the first Dells with the P-90 in them. Man were those things blazing for their time, until you did the math problem that showed that they had a batch of chips with the bad floating point processor. Solitare took about 3-4 seconds for all of the cards to flip off the screen when you won. DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups ftw!

[Juglenaut]

72-pin simm was upto 64mb with allocations in 16 bit(rare) or 32 bit (common). The Simm 72 died out before they reached densities requiring both sides (non-redundant). Some mobos I have seen had upto 8 on a workstation, however alot of specifics come into play to, back then be able to run the max ram.

30 pin Simms are rare and max desity is 16mb, this line is the ansestor to current sodimm technology.

[3100 MPFI]

i've got another question. My old laptop is windows 2000. It crashed on me a few years ago, and I just got another one.

It will not load up saying a file was corrupted, but it WILL load up in SAFE MODE.

Someone said I could get a boot disk, or a repair disk, and I could start it up using that, and it would probably fix it. Does anyone know where I can get one of these disks in CD format? Everything I am finding online is for floppy.

[Juglenaut]

Win2000 is NT based however had similar issue the System file.

In some cases it is the systemced, often the registry is to large, this makes sense as you can load safe mode as this mode take less ram to boot after post. To me it sounds as a registry issue to many useless entries taking to much boot ram as 2000 is limited to 16mb.

Remove any boot loaded drivers even old drivers can linger in the reg, any upgrade that was or has been done look for old drivers, also look for old programs that load with the kernel or just about any program that was originally installed that used drivers from the window root file, or any program in general that can load at start up. Decreasing the size of the reg itself may fix it, even if a few kilobytes here and there as one string can load a 30mb program.

My XP registry is 3 years old!!! and had my share of blue screens of death in this time. However I have rarely formatted the install has been lapped over exsisting but the reg stays untouched. I groom it from time to time manually. I am using a registry that was carried over from my old harddrive.

I have a unopened copy of 2k.

One more thing is 2000 is very picky when removing programs that involve windows core files, system32 core file, or shares root core files. To me someone may have deleted or unistalled a program using a uninstall (wise) that was not in NT compatibility mode. XP is not at all picky in this area in general, 2000 you must use the add or remove programs even if the program installed has a uninstall program. Also if a program was removed in 2000 certain ones will say corrupt if the program is not really gone just moved and some will say missing if the program is erased completely.