Today's project is an older Compaq Armada E500, it needs a new hard drive, which will mean installing the operating system and all the drivers.
The computer is my Aunt's, not a bad machine at all, and she is used to it. I would have liked to max out the ram, but what I had on hand didn't work, so it will stay at 256Mb for now. I ended up installing windows with a pre-SP1 XP disc, I WILL remedy that problem.
The only issue I had was finding the drivers for her Netopia SWL2300N 3D Reach wireless card (Download drivers here) The drivers were a pain to find, hope this helps!
So after a FEW hours of updating and cleaning, I sent the computer back to my Aunt, it works GREAT now! It does however need a new battery, I tried the "freezing" trick and it did now work.
Have fun!
Me!
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