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Building MAME PC. Have all parts. Where is a good place to find advice?
« on: June 09, 2006, 02:16:28 pm »
My wife would freak if I bought a computer for my cab in progress because of a new baby on way. So I collected and bought parts from Friends. Only the the hard drive is new. I have a book on how to stick it all together. But I know that installing Windows will be more tricky than the book reveals.


Anyway is there a forum that is like this one for computers?
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Re: Building MAME PC. Have all parts. Where is a good place to find advice?
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2006, 02:24:06 pm »
No piracy here please.
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Re: Building MAME PC. Have all parts. Where is a good place to find advice?
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2006, 03:03:36 pm »
Sorry SAINT, I removed the part in question  :cheers:
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Re: Building MAME PC. Have all parts. Where is a good place to find advice?
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2006, 03:09:21 pm »
What version of windows are you going to use?  It's not that bad doing an install on a new drive.  Run whatever is on the floppy/cd that came with the drive to partition & format it.  Then run windows install.

Then remove all the crap (AOL etc).

What version of windows and what hard drive?
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Re: Building MAME PC. Have all parts. Where is a good place to find advice?
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2006, 03:46:28 pm »
I would HIGHLY recommend:
www.VirtualDR.com

EXCELLENT  EXCELLENT  EXCELLENT 

XP is pretty simple, make sure your bios will boot from a CD and go
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Re: Building MAME PC. Have all parts. Where is a good place to find advice?
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2006, 08:40:03 pm »
I'd suggest the following:

1) Sign up for the freecycle (on yahoogroups) within your area.
2) Check out craglist in your area.
3) Watch E-Bay
4) Watch for yardsales.
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Re: Building MAME PC. Have all parts. Where is a good place to find advice?
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2006, 09:52:31 pm »
Quote from: arcadegamenut on June 09, 2006, 08:40:03 pm
I'd suggest the following:

1) Sign up for the freecycle (on yahoogroups) within your area.
2) Check out craglist in your area.
3) Watch E-Bay
4) Watch for yardsales.

 ???  He already has the PC... why would he need craigslist or ebay?



Rackoon, this link should help you out: http://www.pcmech.com/byopc/
Once the system is put together (correctly), installing XP is nothing more than a few clicks and button presses.  Read up a bit and google "build your own PC" and you'll find all the info you need.  Good luck.
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Re: Building MAME PC. Have all parts. Where is a good place to find advice?
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2006, 11:06:52 pm »
Quote from: pointdablame on June 09, 2006, 09:52:31 pm


 ???  He already has the PC... why would he need craigslist or ebay?


To purchase a cheap, yet legit copy of windows? I didn't see the unedited first message, but judged from the rest of the thread that he didn't have windows and may have asked where he could download a copy or something (due to Saint's message).

So I was offering an alternative way of picking one up.
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