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I had to change the setting for hard drive 1 to off in the BIOS setup. After that everything works fine.

The cd rom is on a separate IDE port from the two hard drives and I have never done anything with it, but when I try to boot the computer without the empty IDE2 drive (logical C) bios does not recognize anything but the floppy drive. As long as the empty C drive is there everything works fine.

I am in the process of cannibalizing a Dell Precision 220 and I've run into something that has me stumped. It as two hard drives a 10 GB (logical drive C) and a 250 Gb drive (logical drive E). I have removed the partitions from the 10 Gb drive and erased it. The OS (XP) is on the E drive...

On further research I've discovered that booting a new computer with an old hard drive with XP installed is NOT recommended. If you want to know more about this, you can go here Changing a Motherboard or Moving I wouldn't want anyone to make the mistake I was about to make.:O

Ok, I bought on of these "http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320402873631&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_5032wt_783" I've had to order a new power supply. I have a couple of extra CD ROMS so I'm all set. I'm just going to plug in my spare hard drive and boot it up.

Thanks for your help, but I've decided to buy new.

I'm considering a build from scratch just to have a backup desktop. If I buy a used cpu what are the risks, and if I buy one how can I check it to make sure it isn't damaged? What questions might I ask the seller to avoid buy something that has been abused?

I was planning on replacing the power supply also, which I realize would be problematic. In it's current configuration, this box is too noisy and I think the cabling on the Dell PS is all wrong. In the meantime I've discovered that another case I have is ATX/MATX. This was from an even older...

I was advised against this somewhere else, but I thought I'd ask in case someone here has done it. Anyway, I have a fairly old Precision 220 that it still works as good as ever, but it is no longer adequate for the task for which I purchased it. I would do a rebuild using the case, but with...

I have a work at home computer which I had custom built a couple of years ago. It consists of coolermaster mid tower case Gigabyte 945p-s3 motherboard NVDIA GeForce 7300 LE Graphics card NVDIA GeForce FX 5200 Graphics card intel E6700 2.7 ghz process 4 gb pc5300 ddr2-667 ram 2 250gb sata...

I posted this on another forum and got one suggestion, to consider using a cd based os which would be impervious to attack. I think bootup from cd would be slow and updates would be a pain so I'm reposting my question here to see what other ideas to consider. Here it is: I have a home...