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Geo2160 wrote:Yes, it is as old as the rest of the system. I think it's a 60 or 80 gig WD. P-ATA.
I told her that she should upgrade, but in a country where 350 bucks/month is called a decent salary you can not expect people to be able to afford such things just because you told them.
Scrotos wrote:QFT. I'm in the "rich" USA but I also bristle at the suggestions of "just buy something new" as immediate solutions.
Geo2160 wrote:But I don't think it would be such a good idea to install win8 on a 2002 single core machine.
Geo2160 wrote:I told her that she should upgrade, but in a country where 350 bucks/month is called a decent salary you can not expect people to be able to afford such things just because you told them.
absurdity wrote:Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was talking down to you or anything, but Microsoft is the one not discriminating about when security patches are cut off, not me.
Geo2160 wrote:@just brew it: I don't think that was the case. The drive was completely fine until I reinstalled the OS.
Geo2160 wrote:@Usacomp2k3: Unfortunately it's dead. It doesn't even POST every time.
@just brew it: I don't think that was the case. The drive was completely fine until I reinstalled the OS.
Ryu Connor wrote:Geo2160 wrote:@Usacomp2k3: Unfortunately it's dead. It doesn't even POST every time.
@just brew it: I don't think that was the case. The drive was completely fine until I reinstalled the OS.
That's just coincidence. It was most likely already mechanically failing. Just the longer work cycle of the install and subsequent program installs and updates just managed to expose something already broken.
Ryu Connor wrote:I'm not sure why people keep suggesting that Linux is a good solution for a box that old. Perhaps some specialized distro that is stripped down or cli only, but modern editions of Ubuntu and Mint for example are not lightweight.
I have an old Core 2 Duo laptop I use to present LPI-1 running Mint 14. Both cores idle at 20% usage and system usage plus caching easily fills up all 4GB of RAM in that laptop (very little swap use, there is more than enough RAM to leave the swap barely used for general productivity tasks). The laptop also runs considerably hotter than if Win7 or 8 were on it (probably an extension of that constant 20% usage on both cores).
XP arguably remains the lightest still supported option for the box. 7 or 8 versus something like Ubuntu or Mint is debatable a toss up.
slowriot wrote:My Socket A motherboard had an ISA slot and topped out at 1GB of RAM (I think, I had 512MB in it). No way I'd want Win7/8 on that!
Ryu Connor wrote:I'm not sure why people keep suggesting that Linux is a good solution for a box that old. Perhaps some specialized distro that is stripped down or cli only, but modern editions of Ubuntu and Mint for example are not lightweight.