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Originally posted by Kameleon
Any suggestions?

Not anything cheap, aside getting a new mobo. There might be converters but i don't know enough about the 5.25" drives, to be honest converters also usually end up causing more problems than they solve :-/

EDIT: And Sleep, that 308.5 fps test on Quake really had me drooling [/b]

Well it had me drooling also The only snag is to get that type of speed you need about 500 quids worth of cooling

she's created a monster...

As our friend Mr Sleep says, converters usually only cause problems rather than solve them.

You might ask around and see if someone makes an expansion card with a floppy disk controller on it (of course, if you can find one, it will probably be built with ISA architecture which is becoming harder and harder to find on most new motherboards).

It seems odd that your old FDD cable would not work on a new motherboard; that's not something I would associate with being a proprietary component. Try reinstalling the old cable and make sure it's seated correctly. If it still doesn't work, then I'd check to make sure that you didn't tear or break the cable or connectors. If you still can't get the cable to work, get another cable out of a different machine (or go to Best Buy and get a new one) and try that.

I don't have any reason to keep a 5.25" FDD in my computer, so it's not hooked up right now; I just do it for the geek points and to remind me of how much computers have changed since I was playing "Lemonade" in fourth grade.

Originally posted by HighLordDave
I don't have any reason to keep a 5.25" FDD in my computer, so it's not hooked up right now; I just do it for the geek points and to remind me of how much computers have changed since I was playing "Lemonade" in fourth grade.

Funny you should mention Geek points, i have been exposing my relative hardware knowledge through the last few pages, i wonder how i score in the Geek'o'metre

In the aftermath of various "Butch/Femme", "Lion/Lamb" and "Stud/Whatever", is there, in fact, a geek test? I'm not optimistic about there being one or the score I'd get, though

Originally posted by Mr Sleep


@Waverly, sound advice, Speakers probably best to go for a Cambridge soundworks, something with 5.1

Plus I can verify Cambridge will replace the speakers if the balance control goes out. (At least in my case they did)

I bought a Geforce 3 a couple of days ago. But now I read what you orderd I'm not so happy anymore

The altec lansing speakers have a subwoofer. They aren't what I wanted, but the speaker selection was not great at the place I ordered it from. I'll get surround sound speakers later. Same goes for the monitor--I will get a larger monitor later.

I paid $1655 for the system--including the monitor and licensed CD's of WinXP Pro and shipping. I did not find a better deal anywhere else. The most expensive part of the system besides the chipset was the Geforce4. BTW, did you know that there are two types of Geforce4? One is the Ti4400 or Ti4600, and the other is called the MX or something like that. The MX version doesn't have half the features of the Ti. A lot of the systems with the Geforce4 that I saw advertised offered the MX version. If I hadn't read up on it, I would have ordered it without realizing it wasn't that good. Just for fun, I tried customizing at Dell and Gateway. The same system came to $2200, and had a crappy motherboard (you couldn't select the motherboard) and a crappy soundcard (you also couldn't select that.)

The next system I do, I'm gonna build myself when I have more time. I think that will be fun. It doesn't seem that hard to do.

I also ordered stuff to upgrade my old systems:
I have a 450MHz Intel 740/Intel P2B chipset. Upgraded the video card to a Riva TNT2 16 MB. Upgrading the RAM to 256MB. Putting in a new 20gig hard drive. Anyone know whether it's worthwhile to install WinXP on this one? I'm afraid it will not be compatible with some of the older hardware, including the soundblaster AWE 64 card. Otherwise, I'm going to install WinME on it.

I have my current Athlon AMD 800MHz/ASUS A7V VIA Apollo KT133. It now has 128MB of PC100 RAM. I'm pulling that out and putting in 256MB of PC133 RAM--since the mb supports PC133. Installing WinXP will make it much more stable, I hope.

I would've opted to save money on the fan by just placing a giant brick of ice next to it.

Also, I would've picked up Athlon. I can't stand intel....

Either than that, nice set up.

Originally posted by VoodooDali
Anyone know whether it's worthwhile to install WinXP on this one?

You'll have to buy another copy of Windows XP because of Microsoft's new registration program that keeps folks from violating the licensing agreement.

What a drag--evil MS!

Yup, you're right HLD--I can only install it on my second PC. The third one I'll just install WinME, since I'm giving that one away to a relative anyway...