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OK I will check those out - thank you!

Hey GREAT site, thanks for the link. It is 5.5" x 5.9" x 3.4" http://www.power-on.com/atx12vem300bt.html

Hey folks, I want to replace the 250W PS in the wife's old emachines tower, looking for something quieter & more wattage. BUT - looks like a tight fit - are all ATX PSs the same formfactor (size) or are the higher W supplies physically larger? TIA

OK,good to know. I think my bro-in-law is going to bail me out anyway, he went all mac while back so I can use his old install disk.

OK so I want to upgrade my emachines PC with a new mobo, has a OEM XP repair disk but it won't boot to the new bios/mobo. My conundrum - I don't want to have to pay for a full version of XP. I'll bite the bullet & pay MS for an XP home upgrade, but then I need a 98 or ME disk to qualify (I do...

"Not necessarily, you can have more virtually memory allocated than you have total physical memory and still not touch the pagefile. " 'Can' and 'will' are different though. Windows uses the page file all the time, certainly any app trying to load a file larger than physical ram is going to...

Yup you are right, only ME and '98.

+1 on Inside Windows. (Used to be Inside NT). Might be more than you are looking for but you'll leran a lot. Next time someone comes blabbing to you about linux this or apple that you can make an informed opinion. Second, search the knowledge base (KB) at Msoft. For example, check out the MS...

yup I think that is gonna have to be how it goes. I'll check with the bro-in-law first he has piles of old stuff,. has to be an old Win95 cd in there somewhere....

I'm updating the wife's old Emachines with a Pentium D915. The newer cases have side venting with a channel to the CPU fan, this old case does not. Is the special channel needed for these dual core chips? Only 1 spot for an extra case fan, too, and only 80mm. Going to have a AGP card in...

The 64-bit mode is most likely just 64-bit memory addressing. And you are not going to have more actual memory than can be addressed with a 32-bit processor. But you could address more virtual memory with a 64-bit system. So if you needed to keep more than 4 GB of data open at once in photoshop...

So, no more great ideas about how to 'upgrade' a XP OEM install with a XP Home Upgrade disk?

Hm, I did not know that RE OEM license - that a Mobo replacement invalidated it. Seems sensible to me that the license should be a site license - 1 machine, 1 user, so what if I upgrade HW? I know XP is only good for a couple years, but I'm not installing v 1.0 of any Msoft OS...I'll wait...

thanks..I'm not double dipping, I already have a license for XP, on the emachines original purchase. I'm just trying to figure the best way to upgrade it. I don't want to go OEM as it is a pain if you change HW again later.

OK I have an emachines PC that came with XP, but installing a new mobo. Wont run with new mobo and bios. So I am getting a XP home 'upgrade', which I am paying MS for, so it goes. Question - I have a win95 disk I have used already to upgrade an older 'whitebox' machine to XP. If I use...