julieA
09-10-2001, 11:05 AM
Well, the tigerdirect.com blaster pc kit got here Friday. We opened it excitedly. We had to send off my sister-in-law on a bus so I had to wait until evening to start on it. Meantime, I picked up a video card and modem as they didn't come in the kit.
I started putting it together at 5pm Central time and I ran into a snag right away as the picture of the cpu they had in the book and the one they sent was different. It was a pentium processor, a heat sink and some kind of clip gadget. I had NO idea how it went together. My 12yo son had been watching me and piped up with a suggestion. SHHH, I said, I gotta look through this documentation. It's bound to be here somewhere. IT wasn't but out of frustration I tried his suggestion which OF COURSE worked. After that he sat looking over my shoulder helping me.
By 10, we were ready to push the on button. It WORKED. Well, almost. The floppy refused to work and I was re-using a hard drive so I had to figure out how to format it since it had been through a lot and I hadn't a clue. Well, I remembered once I had changed the Bios or CMos or one of those things to check the cdrom first instead of the floppy. Sure enough, with the windows 98 cd in place, I told it to boot from the cdrom and windows formatted the drive for me !
Tah dah! :o We are very happy and we even got the floppy to work after getting online and finding out that that data cable's red line IS supposed to be on a particular way- duh.
So, now julieA - mother of ten, wife of one is back on her futurequest. Thanks to a brilliant (hey he is mine) 12 yo boy.
:) :o %) :y :D
I started putting it together at 5pm Central time and I ran into a snag right away as the picture of the cpu they had in the book and the one they sent was different. It was a pentium processor, a heat sink and some kind of clip gadget. I had NO idea how it went together. My 12yo son had been watching me and piped up with a suggestion. SHHH, I said, I gotta look through this documentation. It's bound to be here somewhere. IT wasn't but out of frustration I tried his suggestion which OF COURSE worked. After that he sat looking over my shoulder helping me.
By 10, we were ready to push the on button. It WORKED. Well, almost. The floppy refused to work and I was re-using a hard drive so I had to figure out how to format it since it had been through a lot and I hadn't a clue. Well, I remembered once I had changed the Bios or CMos or one of those things to check the cdrom first instead of the floppy. Sure enough, with the windows 98 cd in place, I told it to boot from the cdrom and windows formatted the drive for me !
Tah dah! :o We are very happy and we even got the floppy to work after getting online and finding out that that data cable's red line IS supposed to be on a particular way- duh.
So, now julieA - mother of ten, wife of one is back on her futurequest. Thanks to a brilliant (hey he is mine) 12 yo boy.
:) :o %) :y :D