I am so glad that compaq did away with the setup program on the hard drive. I discovered that when I had my Compaq Deskpro 2000, it would boot from a CD using a Creative MPC 2x IDE cd-rom. Only that drive would allow it to boot from a CD. As that was the only cd-rom I had at the time, the rest were …

Here is my computer area, a bit messy, as I have been repairing and testing a couple of old computers. I do love thrift store finds. I am not sure how to post photos but there is the flickr stream to the two photos. http://www.flickr.com/photos/40635833@N06/12312316395/in/photostream/ http://www. …

currently in my old rig i use a Diamond Steath II s220 with a rendition Vertite chip, 4megs PCI. I have no not had any problems with the card running any DOS programs or games, but one, No windows 3.x drivers. but I do love the card. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is awesome on this along with GLQuake.