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For the princely sum of $15 I have acquired a used Dell XPS 400 containing a Smithfield Pentium D at 3 GHz and 3 gigs of DDR2. I slapped a spare SATA hard drive into it, attempted to install Windows 8.1... and it fails. The installer gets to a point before creating the GUI, tells me to hold the power button to reboot, shows about three columns of rapidly changing hexadecimal gibberish for about two seconds, and then reboots. It will do this on a continuous loop with no variation if I let it keep trying to boot from the DVD. As a testing measure I installed Windows 7 just to make sure I didn't buy a lemon, and it works fine. Alas, that license is tied up on another box in my house so that isn't a long-term solution. Help?
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Hello all, pardon the neophytic nature of the following, but I've been toiling with AMD's for the past year or so and i've kind of fallen out of the know for intel stuff..
I have a 1.8 ghz dell 8100 P4 (bought only b/c I could get financing :P) (geforce 3) I ran madonion's 3dmark and came out with a score of about 4000. I saw on their website someone got a 6000 with the same video card (Gf3, but I'm not sure of the exact vendor).
I am thinking about building my own system (p4) and I'm a bit confused by the new stuff. Do p4 mobos vary FSB speed like PIII's and thunderbirds did? 100/133?
Also, what is the difference between socket 423 and 478? Assuming that I was concerned with pure speed... I'm leaning towards RDRAM for performance reasons...
Btw I tried to install 98 on that dell - and it did not like it one little bit. I downloaded mobo drivers.. low level device drivers .. it still did not run correctly... The p4 mobos aren't 'too new' for 98 are they? Win 2k did not run the games very well, so I am currently dealing with win ME.
Thanks much
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