on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:12:55AM -0400, dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:31:39AM -0400, JakeCatfox@aol.com wrote: > | Yes, Compaq is quite skilled in the "stupid" department. > > I found that out with my Compaq. I tried to add another hard drive, > but the BIOS could only see it in "Cable Select" mode. Thus it > couldn't be on the same IDE bus as anything else (except the zip > drive). The machine also only had a 110W power supply and after a > while couldn't handle that hard drive. The case is too small to be > useful too. =p. I have a custom built box now (built by me :-)) My experience with any number of branded vendors is that their consumer hardware often has similar flaws, particularly the low-end stuff. You get what you pay for, and it often isn't much. My Gateway box was pretty non-extendable, I've seen some really depressing HP stuff (Vectra, IIRC), ditto Q. DYI is definitely recommended. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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