Rebuilding System (looking for tips)

[DarrylLicke]

@Home sucks...this is a sidenote since I woke up this morning with no internet access so I had to go to work to get the info I needed...no warning just disconnected for 8-10 days...but I digress.

OK...I am "rebuilding" my system today/tomorrow/Monday/Tuesday. I'm going to look at a few sites for directions/step-by-step process since building is not something I have done frequently and the process is not memorized. Anyway I'm looking for some tips anyone may have.

Things I plan on doing:
- removing everything and taking compressed air to it....seems to be a lot of dust inside.
- replacing boot drive (75gxp) and making it slave to new drive (60gxp...please don't be DOA)
- flashing bios (just need to dl flash program and new bios...simple enough)
- reinstall win98
- a lot of praying


Written down it sounds easy enough but I recall summer 2000 when I built this machine......the headaches I went through (like no sound and not recognized by windows...oh wait the card is not all the way in, and a DOA NIC from 3com).


Side note....too much stress lately from brewing first batch of beer...but that is most certainly off topic.

 

[AMDPwred]

Doesn't sound too bad. I don't think you need to take everything out to dust it. Just get a cloth and get the metal sides inside. The swap of the hhd is nothing and a re-install of Win98 shouldn't be a problem either. To make life easier, make sure you have the boot disks for Win98. It will take you straight through the setup. Good luck.

 

[fs5]

forget the boot disks.
1. Put the 60gxp as slave.
2. Go to dos and type "sys X:" where X is the 60gxp.
3. Copy the entire windows98 cd on to a directory in 60gxp (this way you won't ever have to find the win98 cd when installing/adding programs).
4. Shut down.
5. Make 60gxp master and 75gxp slave.
6. Boot it up and you should be in DOS with a complete copy of win98 on your HD. Just install win98 from that directory
7. Move essential data from 75gxp to 60gxp.
8. etc....