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Tokar

Tokar

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Hi Im New At All This Computer Stuff But I Have A Pretty Old Comp That My Aunt Is Going To Give Me And I Was Wondering If I Can Fully Restore It So It Will Almost Be Like A New One. And I Dont Want To Get Rid Of The Memory Because We Just Wipped It Its Like Its New But Is There Anything I Can Do To Make It Like It A Very New One.:d Thanks All.
 
We need to know what the system consists of now to get an idea of what can be done to it.

Please list what system you have.
 
the thing is is im getting the comp in about three or four days so i will download one when i get it thanks
 
make sure they give you the recovery disk or windows and mobo disks, then you can put the pc back the way it was when it was bought.
 
You said this free system is pretty old, how old do you think it is? If your just wanting to bring this old system back to its "just bought" condition you can probably do that. If your wanting to upgrade it to play todays fast games, you will probably be out of luck.

Things change fast in the computer world. If you purchase the newest chip out today, within 6 months it will an old chip. Still a good chip, just not the latest. Now think about how many changes have happened in 3 years and you can get an idea of how out dated your system is.

You might be able to use the hard drive, cd/dvd drive and computer case. But I am betting every thing else will have to be replaced. If this computer was made by one of the big company's like Dell, HP, Compaq, Acer, you can bet that nothing is upgradeable. They all use special parts made for them exclusively by parts manufactures. The old parts will not fit (except for the hard drives and cd/dvd drives) in any new case, and new parts ( like the motherboard) will not fit in the old case.

Let us know what you are getting. And I'm sure someone can help get you upgraded as much as possible.
 
ya its a 98 compaq im pretty sure so probly nothing is going to be upgradeable i just want to get it to its newly bought condition to just put a system to do special effects on movies i have made with my video camera.
 
Tokar said:
ya its a 98 compaq im pretty sure so probly nothing is going to be upgradeable i just want to get it to its newly bought condition to just put a system to do special effects on movies i have made with my video camera.
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It will probably do that, but it will do it SLOWLY! Even on my system it can take hours to render special effects. One that old will take even longer. Do not be surprised if it takes 5 hours or more to render some effects.

As long as you understand that system is 9 years old, and do not get frustrated easily, you will be ok.

A good AMD chip back then was the K5 or the K6 running at around 75mhz fsb, with a max of 512k ram. So do not expect much.
 
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