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I don't know, the PC industry keeps going where I think it is, I may find myself out of a potential job. I'm not even remotely useful for manual labor. I am nowhere near as useful with a tablet or smartphone as I am with a true PC. By the way, I read somewhere that a touchscreen that emits...

I just tried 8 on my GX270 on a whim, and, oh my no. Same error code, 0x0(some more zeros, I lost count... don't quite know how many make up a hex address, is it 8?)5D, though shouldn't the Socket 478 P4s all support NX? Is it just Dell being stupid with their BIOS? I know for a fact-ish that...

Sounds like you guys all have a lot of money to blow. No offense, just an observation. You guys seem like giants with your i7's and GTX TITANS and HOLY CRAP 10 CORE XEONS. Meanwhile I'm running less than a Celeron G. Also, think my HDD is going, I can actually hear read and write noises from it...

^ Woah. Yeah, my worst mistake that was totally my fault would have to be frying a mobo because I used the wrong kind of power supply (regular ATX PSU on one of those older Dell mobos that used a differently wired ATX plug). In my defense, at the time, I didn't know Dell did those kinds of...

... Or not. At least, not right now. It's current release does not support Windows 7 yet, but it will in the next one. As it says, "stay tunned"!

Hmm. Good to know. You can bet that I'll be slapping in that GeForce2. Thanks for the protip!

What I've been trying to tell you is that I've been lurking everywhere for a better driver and I simply can't find one that will install. Also, if I had the money to upgrade the RAM in this machine do you think I'd still be fiddling with the i865 chipset instead of going with a cheap nvidia...

Er, the i110 might not have an ARM v7... it appears to have the same processor as an OG Galaxy S. Whatever that may be.

Dad gave me his old SCH-i110 to play around with. Eyeballing it, it seems about as powerful as my GTab - - about 1/2 a gig of RAM, ARM v7... My tablet's iteration is clocked slightly higher (1000 MHz vs 800 MHz). My question is, does anyone know of a Cyanogen package for it? They both originally...

Well, no... 7 in fact did NOT install proper drivers automatically, and any attempt to install any other driver was met with it falling back to the Standard VGA Adapter. The XP-in-compatibility-mode driver scales all the way to 1440 x 900, the max res of my SE198WFP. The only problem I've...

I got Windows 7 installed on my i865-based Optiplex GX270. Install was ugly (16 color VGA ahoy), res on install was huge (640 x 480 ahoy), but I found a Windows XP driver for it and installed it in compatibility mode, and it works. Still can't use aero, but nuts to that. On a Pentium 4 I'd just...

I just reinstalled 7 and it didn't install additional config software for the mouse. But if I unplug it and plug it back in, it probably will.

I never liked Apple, I was given a iPod touch for my 14th birthday and I traded it for my GTab the first chance I got. Which, by the way, I got KitKat on today... I am less than impressed. Web is loads less painfully slow (you used to be able to grab a cup of coffee, come back and it'd maybe be...

Yeah, those are things I don't like about Microsoft mice, but try a serial one! It doesn't have additional config software! I also like Logitech's unifying reciever. Makes it easier... when I have both a wireless keyboard and mouse.

^ I lol'd.

Jeez the editor's glitchy... I've noticed we've all been double posting more and more often recently...

I was messing with you :D Yeah, those UEFI types always throw me for a loop - - DEL or F12 or F2 just don't seem to work. Maybe a key combination? Either way, all the UEFI types I've fixed didn't need BIOS fiddling to be fixed. On the subject of UEFI, opinions on that in general? I think...

My grandma still uses it on her old P4 laptop (1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM). Holy carp. She says her PC is dead, and while she IS mostly correct, it'd run hella better if Avast wasn't hogging 98.4% of her RAM. Dad used to use it, I did too. Now we all know better and really don't use anything. None of us...

Aww... I could'a taken it off your hands...

Why didn't you put the SSD from the old laptop into the new? Hoping she won't notice the difference? :twistd:

Say what you want about Microsoft, about it's less than savory business practices and not listening to consumers and whatnot, but they make some damn good mice. I bought this mouse...

I always went with what I've had around - - I once had a (almost definitely overdriven, at 1024 x 768 with 32 bit colors) 14" CRT VGA monitor that was so old that it felt the need to prominently display the fact that it was non-interlaced, despite the fact that people stopped caring about that...

You guys probably already knew of this, but significant performance boosts can be gotten by enabling or disabling certain options in the chrome://flags section. It even works on Android! Of particular note are the "Override software rendering list," "GPU Accelerated SVG filters," "Disable...

I used to have one, so being on a limit now hits harder than it would for others. I'm still used to not having a limit, which, unsurprisingly, sends the used data skyrocketing. As such, I am limited to downloading large files (100 MB+, or somewhere thereabouts) when I am at school on my GTab...

What do you mean by that, aside from the obvious "being on my own" thing?

Linux is a bit difficult. I've finally found something that can challenge me. This is a good thing. There, happy now? :-D Also, broke down and installed Chrome. I originally didn't want to (didn't like the prospect of Google acting like Big Brother...) but, you were right, it does have built...

Mint 16 Petra is installed! Honestly, I'm shocked, as far as Linux goes for me, it installed without a hitch! I even configured MATE to look (exactly) like GNOME 2.xx! Much easier to navigate, at least for me. I will get a screengrab when I get home, if you guys care. I will say that while...

Good to know, but as I've said, the money's already spent.

I just grabbed a Mint x64 w/ MATE ISO while I was at school. Gonna set up setup probably on my dad's old 2 GB flash drive (the ISO was a little over 1.2 GB). From there I'll put it on my laptop.

That'd be nice, only I already spent the money - - and after S&H, that price'd likely skyrocket. What I did was I bought two 8 GB USB sticks (for OS installing purposes), a new keyboard for the laptop, and a new external mouse for the laptop, as the one I'm using now is on loan from my mom.

Now, not only do I have Lubuntu as a secondary on my GX270, but I also have it as my main OS on my laptop! I had to update my wifi hardware's firmware to get it working.

Haha, and Lubuntu is installed. It's alive! IIIT'S ALIIIIIIVE!!!

I never understood SpeedStep. How does it work, exactly? Dynamic clocking?

Wow, that person was really unhelpful. I'm sorry Merc. I'll never write S*ny the way they do ever again. It's a curse word in my book. On that subject, there really isn't anything fundamentally different between 2k pro and server, is there? Server just supports more RAM, right?

This new drive is the original CD-ROM drive that came with it, is 10+ years old works like a charm, copying files right now

it is looking really hopeful right now The new drive is really noisy, but it's working and much faster than it was off the old drive too I'm wondering how I ever got XP installed properly off the old drive

replaced the optical drive, trying again might end up taking the iso image and forcing it onto my dads 2G thumb drive it can boot from usb

Wow, you had to recompile your own kernel? I'd have backed out.... that's too advanced for me. I'm still trying to get lubuntu installed... Jesus it's slow loading off a CD... Some good news, though... it successfully shrunk my xp partition and made its own, didn't trash my HDD - - SHIT...

Installing now, but Jesus H. Christ is it slow... might just be my optical drive, it is a bit ... er, SHIT. Error copying files to the hard disk. God dammit. Looks like I'll be trying again later. Here's hoping it didn't trash my hard drive.

Hah, took a quick look at the PC specs from '04 page. Looks like my GX270 isn't far off the mark - - w/ gigabit lan, sata, dvd rom, 80 GB HDD, and 2.8 GHz P4... AND 6 USB 2.0 ports... AND a whole gigabyte of RAM...

I didn't know you could even use a Xeon for daily use! What is it like?

Just curious, why do you guys censor S*ny but not shitboxes? Some kinda royalty payment avoiding thing going here?

Okay, so I have Lubuntu 13.10 on a CD right here. MATE is a 400 MB download? Dammit, looks like I'm heading to Mickey D's after this damnable snow clears. I'll stick with LXDE till then, I guess. Thanks for doing my dirty work guys! Dirty work here being looking up hardware support. Man, that...

Okay, so I have Lubuntu 13.10 on a CD right here. MATE is a 400 MB download? Dammit, looks like I'm heading to Mickey D's after this damnable snow clears. I'll stick with LXDE till then, I guess. Thanks for doing my dirty work guys! Dirty work here being looking up hardware support. Man, that...

This looks pretty cool. I'll have to try it whenever I can get around to it. Also - - in the screenshot showcasing the CPU clock speed - - 1.97 GHz? Kinda oddball, but it was probably meant to be 2 GHz. But 1.97 GHz = 1970 MHz, so... kinda sorta wayyy off. I'm not saying that's not what the CPU...

Thanks for the input, but the price just jumped out of my range on that particular piece of hardware. I'm not paying over $70 for a 60 GB SSD, no thanks.

I recently got a hold of a Dell Optiplex GX270, and although it is running XP quite happily, XP doesn't have a whole lot of life in it. Do Lubuntu or Mint support an Intel 82865G onboard gfx chipset and SoundMAX integrated audio? I want to dual boot, running XP for my games while running Lubuntu...

I had an 8 32 bit dvd and code, but it refused to activate. Windows 7 it is then!

How big was it? Also, just like that, Windows 7 goes back on. My copy of Win8 refused to activate, and I wasn't about to do some hoop jumping for an OS that I really didn't like. I'm getting the aforementioned ssd, and I'm just going to get rid of all my games and stuff that I don't use. I...

Now Windows 8 is installed. Though I do have settings set and files copied, I do not have apps installed, nor will I install them until I get my SSD, which by the way, I actually am getting. I'm just gonna go the "reset everything" route. A peculiar thing is that PAE is pretty much enabled, but...