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I have four old computers in my basement. two are pentium 1's 133mhz and 1 is a pentium 2 333mhz. The pentium 2 is . Dell xps d333. The computer is the best out of the three due to its processor, ram, graphics, and harddrive. It currently has 96mb ram with win 98. I have 2 16mb ram sticks that will work with it but the computer only has 3 slots so I can only add one. Is the 112mb ram worth it. I would like to know a good graphical os to use. I would like to not use 98 if possible. I am familar with linux so that's an option. Damn small linux will run on it but I'm bot a huge fan of it. Iv tried puppy but it wont fully boot. I only need the pc for webbrowsing, word processing, and very light gaming such as built on games. I know the computers not worth it but its all I'm alloud to have right now. I also wad going to add all the hardrives fromthe other computers to this one. The fourth computer is an Inspiron 519. Its a whole diffrent story because it wont boot. The psu is fine, and all the fans run when the computer is turned on( there all connected to the mobo). The power light however wont turn blue only stays solid orange. Any suggestions on what to do? Thank you all sorry for being so confusing. Im only 15 and my parents wont let me have my own computer. My dad however gets all these old computers from work.
5 Answers
- JoeLv 76 years ago
That's... a bunch of bad options. In your position, either stick with Win98 on the P2, or go with Damn Small Linux.
And look for other options. In recent years, I've pulled two good Pentium 4 / 256 MB machines away from dumpsters, added cheap RAM from eBay, and hard drives, and wound up with good Ubuntu Linux boxes.
People are discarding Pentium 4 machines, if you live in the right neighborhood. Ask your friends what their folks might be discarding.
- NeerpLv 76 years ago
You can load linux on older limited computers, but you still won't be able to do much with them. They don't have enough memory to do much of anything, and what they can do will be done slowly. And they are so old, they are not reliable. They all need to be recycled or thrown in the trash. They have zero value. Get rid of them.
- 6 years ago
Is there a local recycling center around? There is usually newer computers there (Windows XP Over 2GHZ speeds) Those can even go on the internet and watch Youtube, etc. Thats a better score :)
- ?Lv 76 years ago
Modern websites are actually pretty demanding and an old computer won't be able to handle them tbh.
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