RE: old xp home computers

From: Beachlover (Beachlover_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/17/05 

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 05:45:03 -0700

Hi Again,
Firstly I would just like to thankeveryone for all your advice. It has
helped me tremendouly. I have ben able to bypass the passwords on Xp and the
bios and clean install on Machine number One. So far it appears to be working
fine however, i have not yet had time to install all the software and drivers.

I have begun to work on Machine number two. I bypassed the passwords and
began the clean install. However iwas unable to get passed the
wiping/deleting the partition before it crashed. It did this several times.
So i opened the casing and had a look inside. A word of warning Im not very
good a recgonising stuff on the motherboard but i know the basics. It seem
that there is a fan or cooling system missing from AMD built in chip. I know
this because i opened the othermachine (the one that is working) and it has a
fan thingy over a big chip. (probably the teenagers who nicked it for their
own machines)

I looked the motherboard (Gigabyte 7DXE) up on the net and this chip is the
AMD 761
This of course does not mean much to me execpt i know it is important. So my
next question is "should this chip have a cooling fan and if so where do i
get one" I looked on the Gigabyte web-site but im not sure what im looking
for.

Thanks and any advice is very welcome.
 Beachlover.

"Beachlover" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have just started a new job at a hostel for kids. They had some computers
> in the cupboard that the staff told me were useless because they were
> password protected and the XP administater left the job and couldent be
> contacted. He also took with him all the hardware and software disks.
>
> I took it upon my self to fix the puters. So first i was able to get into
> them by using safe mode.
> I have deleted and uninstalled as much of the old crap as possible but there
> seem to be a few game orphans that i cant uninstall. How do i get rid of
> orphans in the registery when i do not have access to the internet with these
> particular machines.
>
> i was thinking of formating the drive....but as i said i have no software
> disks and i do not have the XP home disk to start again.
>
> A challange i know!!! but im sure i can do something with your help. They
> are basically good machines with 1.68 ghz prosessers and 512 MB RAM.
>
> Any ideas will be helpful as the poor kids should be using these machines
> Thank s
> Beachlover
>

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