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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

HAPPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!!

For Christmas, I received a Compaq Presario 5477 computer with an Intel Celeron 500 mHz processor, 56K modem, 13 GB hardrive, 64 MB SDRAM, and tons of other goodies. The only thing is, I have to transfer everything from the dinosaur (P75) to this computer. And there's a lot of stuff on there...

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[This message has been edited by Fabrux (edited December 26, 1999).]

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

P.S. - I hope no one interprets this as bragging; I am just so happy that I wanted to share it with you all!

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Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :

YOU SUCK Fabrux

. I can't even buy one because my parents won't let me.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Lexmark Z11 printer and Primax Colorado USB 19200 scanner came with it

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Ahem...

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Hehehehehehehe!

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Yay for you.

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"SHOES!"

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

A Compaq?! Who buys a Compaq?! *L*

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

At least it wasn't a Mac...

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Who buys a Compaq? Obviously my dad. And he bought it from my brother, a Radio Shack salesman!

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

I second Jeff's Remark. FABRUX HAS BEEN SAVED!!!!!

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Except Temptation

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Yes. I thought I had seen the light... Turned out it was swamp gas reflecting off of Venus. Now I know I've seen the light... And it's a Compaq!

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Well, wait until the light crashes. :P

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

My mom sent me "Life Begins for Andy Hardy" on VHS. I'm a big Andy-Hardy fan. Now my collection is complete, at least until they start issuing some of the other movies on tape.

--Baloo

P.S.: Now to start completing my Frankie/Annette beach movie collection!

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

A Radio Shack salesman?! Thanks for making my point for me! *LMAO*

Oh, well. As said, it's better than a Mac.

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Hey, what's wrong with Radio Shack and Compaq?

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

I see nothing wrong with Compaq's as they aren't Macs, and I see nothing wrong with Radio shack because they don't SELL Macs.

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Except Temptation

Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

*L*

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Posted by Alshrim Dax (Member # 258) on :

Funny... I got a dining room set and Star Trek Monopoly

Ummm... *looks under the tree* .. nope no new computer..

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Posted by Alshrim Dax (Member # 258) on :

Funny... I got a dining room set and Star Trek Monopoly

Ummm... *looks under the tree* .. nope no new computer..

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Posted by Alshrim Dax (Member # 258) on :

sorry for the double post... I couldn't delete it for some reason...

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Only Sol, CC, and TSN can delete posts in this forum.

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

And Daryus. If you wish to delete a post, just empty it out and out [Deleted] inside instead... Works much better.

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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

Charles Capps: That's pretty ghetto of you, eh..? :-P
(Let us delete posts! *LOL*)

Fabrux: Compaq!? Uhh. No. Compaq's suck. My friend TJ has to bring his old Presario in to my house (it has many diagnostic stuffs and a whole bunch of spare parts) to repair it and/or get it reformatted, oh, about once every 3 months. Hehe...

I got a new computer (well, just a bunch of upgrades) for Christmas as well. Too bad it sucks.....

Intel Celeron 466MHz CPU (Slower than the old Cyrix-200MHz! And handles workload way worse. Listen to your MP3 slow down to a crawl as you scroll sideways on big text files. Mmmm. If I wanted to hear that, I'd use NullSoft's tempo editor plugin! )

PC Partner AGP AT Mainboard (Only has 2 ISA slots. Meaning, if I have a network, I gotta give up my [good] sound card (SB16). The board has an onboard soundcard......err.....sound-chip...that sounds like crap.)

32MB AGP 3D VideoCard (This component is actually quite lovely....too bad almost none of my games seem to want to work!)

InterAct V3 Racing Wheel (Sweet! But hard to get the hang of )

Now, if I could just get this stuff working properly, I'd finally have a computer as good as all of yours!! Hehehe.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

I have no qualms with my new baby

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Er, a S16 was a good soundcard back in 1993. Now it's pants.

Go and buy a lovely SB Live value. Or if you can't afford that, a SB PCI 128. And if you can't afford that, get a job. Two ISA cards is MORE that enough.

And I can't believe that your Celeron is slower than the cyrix. Are you running your computer thrrough lard or something? And why doesn' your graphic card work? Have you got DirectX 7 installed? And if it still odesn't work,get rid of it and get either a M400, or TNT2, or that new nVidea card whose name escapes me.

I got the Simpsons season 1 box-set for Christmas. And a CD player for my car. And another 4 fleece's. And 2 coat's. I think my parents are worried about me getting cold. I now own 6 pair's of fleece's and 10 coats. Of which I wear maybe 4. Ish.

And 4 watches. I dunno why, they keep buying me them. Strange people. You'd think they'd go with aftershave like normal parents.

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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

PsyLiam:
My SB16 suits me just fine. I seem to get upgrades in big huge increments, once every year. *LOL* I jumped from a 1GB drive to a 10GB drive; I jumped from a 1MB video card to a 32MB video card; I jumped from a 28.8 to a 56.6. Etc.

"Two ISA cards is MORE than enough."
Uh, no. PCI cards slow my system down. Just like that onboard SB ViBRA16X PnP...

"And why doesn't your graphic card work?"
The video card's graphics processor is an NVIDIA Model 64. It supports TNT2-M64. And it works fine...where did I say it didn't?

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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

Birthday Update:
I just got another 32MB of SDRAM, bringing the total to 64MB. And I just got Quake III Arena, too. God my life rules!!!!!! *LOL*

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Jammy.

Sorry, you said that none of your games wanted to work. i thought you meant it was due to your graphics card.

And PCI slots slow down your system? Are you SURE?

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Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

Hope not since I'm running a P-II 350 with 128MB ram with only pci cards...no isa cards whatsoever...except the video card of course.

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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

PsyLiam: Well actually, I'm not sure, because I have no PCI cards in my system right now. But I did get a PCI modem once, and it lagged my computer hellishly. I know a friend who has an even "better" PCI modem - it doesen't just lag his computer, it freezes it. I just don't like PCI...

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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

My games....they don't work for a variety of reasons.

Driver won't work because I get a blue screen of death every time I try to load it. Quake III Arena - I haven't tried it yet, but it requires Windows Service Pack 3 (which I can't get because it requires Microsoft Internet Explorer) and Win95 drivers for my CD-ROM drive (which I only have DOS drivers for)

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

The GeForce chipset is the other video card you're thinking of Liam. Or so I'd bet.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

That sounds about right Sol.

So is there an actual reason you don't like PCI apart from these two incidents which, to be honest, aren't exactly common. Show me someone else who prefers ISA to PCI and I'll show you someone who uses their computer as a microwave.

And why haven't you got Win95 drivers for your CD-ROM? Eh? ANSWER ME!

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Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

Uh, that PCI modem of yours unless it cost a pretty penny was a Winmodem which would definitely explain the lagging.
Winmodems sacrifice onboard processors for price and thus they require the cpu to do much of their work...*shudder*....sort of the reverse of a 3d accelerator.

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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

PsyLiam: Get this...the CD-ROM is a DELTA. Piece of crap thing. Didn't come with '95 drivers....

Yes. I don't like PCI cards because when I had a PCI video card, it fit in upside-down. *ROTFL*

Mucus: Yes, the PCI modem was a Winmodem. But TJ (the friend with the modem) maintains that his isn't...hmmm.

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

All I got for Christmas was two hundred or so buck, with which my brother and I went out and bought Septerra Core and Silver.

Harvest Moon 64 should be in the mail any day now...

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Coddman: Point of advice: Don't play Quake III Arena unless you have a cable modem or higher

Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

Fabrux: Uh, no need to worry about that. *L* I can't even play that game, much less play it online. My computer has so many issues it's not even funny! Q3A will not work because it's game CD-ROM contains Windows 95 long filenames. What were they thinking when they did that one, eh? *L*

And if Q3A did load, the B.S.O.D. (Blue Screen Of Death) that results on my computer whenever you try to load an application that plays CD-Audio would surely obliterate Q3A's chances of working. AND! If it got by those two barriers, surely something else would pop up. *L* I'm going to sell this P.O.S. and add the money from the sale to my mom's Car fund.

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