Guide to installing Ram Memory

At this point it will serve little purpose to become too deeply involved in the technical jargon of Memory modules, such as Dimms, Simms, Dram and SDRam. Suffice to say for our purposes, all ram modules fit into memory slots on the motherboard. 486 motherboards use either 30pin simms or 72 pin si ...

02.17.09 | in Category: Microsoft Windows

Guide to Installing IDE devices

The vast majority of hard drives sold today for PC computers are IDE or sometimes referred to as ATA drives. That is why we are going to discuss IDE drives.

IDE CHANNELS
Motherboard chipsets on today's motherboards support two channels or two connectors. Yes, there is new techn ...

02.17.09 | in Category: Microsoft Windows

Formatting a Hard Drive

Now to begin, you will need a MS Dos6.xx or Windows9x boot disk.

STEP ONE
You first need to decide what operating system you intend to load after formatting the hard drive. It is best and easiest to use a boot disk for that Operating System, such as MS Dos6.2 or Windows95b or Win ...

02.17.09 | in Category: Microsoft Windows

Partitioning a Hard Drive - Removing an existing Partition

Now to begin, you will need a MS Dos6.xx or Windows9x boot disk.

Step One
Insert your Windows95/98 Startup Disk (or DOS 6 boot disk) in the A: Drive. Turn on the computer with the floppy disk drive in the A: drive.

When the computer has finished booting you should be ...

02.17.09 | in Category: Microsoft Windows

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