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I have to worst luck of all my desktop has crashed it had windows xp pro.Then I put ubuntustudio on it. it crashed so I'm here asking you all if I should try to put one of my OS I have here at the house on it or just DBAN it.

If it help the OS's that I have are windows 98, mandriva 1,ubuntustudio and good old DOS 6.22 (yeah classics for sure)

and my spec's

 

mother board model 8363-686a

 

amd athlon processor code name thunderbird 32 bit 1 core 1.1ghz

 

memory slots 4(opened up we only see2) 512mb it uses sdram pc133/pc100

 

video card nvidia geforce2 mx/MX 400 32mb of memory

 

bios date 12/07/00 directx 9.0

 

wd hard drive rated at 20.02gb

 

thanks for taking the time to read and for any help

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Old machine huh? Wow, that memory is REALLY old.

 

XP can run on it, for sure, but it won't be a very fast machine.

 

I'd say either linux or slap 98 on and use it to play old games. Mmm, Syndicate, System Shock, original DOOM... :biggrin:

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oh my hehe...pretty much the same specs as my boyfriend's computer when I met him...lol I thought it was godly, pwned my poor laptop :(

 

Ubuntu would run reasonably decent on it. If you threw in an extra 512 stick of RAM in it, XP would run pretty well :)

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If you could find one for a decent price, anyway. He'd probably have to go to a used electronics store or ebay. Might get lucky, but might also end up paying 30-40 bucks for it.
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:D I got a few junkers lying around too. I haven't thrown an old computer away since my 286... and I'm not even sure about that one. I think I might still have its motherboard lying around somewhere. Its case is in the garage.
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ahahahahah my boyfriend has a whole case of those in the storage spot lol...still have a reader too :P We be junkers too, he's got the "heatsink forest" up on top of his computer desk :P Boxes full of late 80s early 90s motherboards...I dunno why he keeps them lol, he tells me it's for the apocalypse :P
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