It is an old old Dell computer still with the Windows XP pro sticker on it
Every attemp to instal Ubuntu fails
Well, I've got good news and bad news. I found several Win98SE installation disks but none are for Dell machines and besides Win98 is museum fodder. Unfortunately, I have no available WinXP generic install disks either. But I do have several WinXP reinstall CD sets (OS CD and driver CDs and app CDs) for various Dell model machines (eg: Dell Dimension 4300S, Inspiron 4000, Dimension 3000, Dimension 4550, Inspiron 8200, Dimension 2350, Dimension C521) The problem with this is that some of the CD sets are incomplete and don't have all the drivers or apps for the particular machines. And the OS CD may or may not be compatible with your particular machine. Rebuilding an old Dell from incomplete sets can be done if you have the compatible OS CD and download the required drivers and apps from the Dell website but it's sometimes tricky, and the Dell website may no longer provide the downloads for the drivers & apps for obsolete machines.
Which Dell do you have? Laptop or Desktop? And which model?
It is an old old Dell computer still with the Windows XP pro sticker on it
Every attemp to instal Ubuntu fails
Well, I've got good news and bad news. I found several Win98SE installation disks but none are for Dell machines and besides Win98 is museum fodder. Unfortunately, I have no available WinXP generic install disks either. But I do have several WinXP reinstall CD sets (OS CD and driver CDs and app CDs) for various Dell model machines (eg: Dell Dimension 4300S, Inspiron 4000, Dimension 3000, Dimension 4550, Inspiron 8200, Dimension 2350, Dimension C521) The problem with this is that some of the CD sets are incomplete and don't have all the drivers or apps for the particular machines. And the OS CD may or may not be compatible with your particular machine. Rebuilding an old Dell from incomplete sets can be done if you have the compatible OS CD and download the required drivers and apps from the Dell website but it's sometimes tricky, and the Dell website may no longer provide the downloads for the drivers & apps for obsolete machines.
Which Dell do you have? Laptop or Desktop? And which model?
How about if you do not have a windows disc for it, How about Ubuntu or other flavour of linux?
Two versions of that model are listed (Dimension 4600 and 4600C) which probably differ in memory capacity or an onboard device chip type. However, you still need to get a Dell WindowsXP-Pro installation CD. I did a quick look on the Dell website and didn't find an official way to get the reinstallation CD sets anymore (they switched to a newer method a few years ago). If you are the original owner and registered your machine with them, then you could probably call them to ask if a CD set is still available. Cost was minimal and used to be around $10 or $15.
I'm sure you could find a Dell WinXP-Pro CD from various third parties on-line with unknown reliability or intentions! Also, you might ask around at local PC repair shops for help.
If you get any Dell XP-Pro installation CD it might work and your Microsoft key tag on the case should enable it. However, you still have to worry about the drivers and maybe some of the apps. Downloading the drivers from Dell website works IF you get the right driver to match the particular device chip in your machine (they often have several alternatives) . It can be an interesting and lengthy process to determine which drivers are necessary or work. For example, if your OS installation doesn't have the driver for the network chip then you have to find another way to download the driver and get it transferred to your machine. Oy!!
The other alternative for restoring your machine is to find and activate its recovery partition. Unfortunately, even if it ever had one, you said you'd been trying to install Linux so there's a possibility that you've clobbered the recovery partition somewhere along the line.
Even if you're successful in getting WinXP-Pro installed on your machine it may be needed to be upgraded to XP-ServicePack3 so that's another piece of major software to be found and downloaded. A few years ago all this fiddly stuff would have been relatively simple but XP has been unsupported for a long time and restoring an old XP is getting harder and harder.
None of this is impossible, just annoying and time consuming.
I am not looking to have Windows on this machine any more but to have Ubuntu or Linux to have a semi working computer until I can figure out how to get a windows box again.
Two versions of that model are listed (Dimension 4600 and 4600C) which probably differ in memory capacity or an onboard device chip type. However, you still need to get a Dell WindowsXP-Pro installation CD. I did a quick look on the Dell website and didn't find an official way to get the reinstallation CD sets anymore (they switched to a newer method a few years ago). If you are the original owner and registered your machine with them, then you could probably call them to ask if a CD set is still available. Cost was minimal and used to be around $10 or $15.
I'm sure you could find a Dell WinXP-Pro CD from various third parties on-line with unknown reliability or intentions! Also, you might ask around at local PC repair shops for help.
If you get any Dell XP-Pro installation CD it might work and your Microsoft key tag on the case should enable it. However, you still have to worry about the drivers and maybe some of the apps. Downloading the drivers from Dell website works IF you get the right driver to match the particular device chip in your machine (they often have several alternatives) . It can be an interesting and lengthy process to determine which drivers are necessary or work. For example, if your OS installation doesn't have the driver for the network chip then you have to find another way to download the driver and get it transferred to your machine. Oy!!
The other alternative for restoring your machine is to find and activate its recovery partition. Unfortunately, even if it ever had one, you said you'd been trying to install Linux so there's a possibility that you've clobbered the recovery partition somewhere along the line.
Even if you're successful in getting WinXP-Pro installed on your machine it may be needed to be upgraded to XP-ServicePack3 so that's another piece of major software to be found and downloaded. A few years ago all this fiddly stuff would have been relatively simple but XP has been unsupported for a long time and restoring an old XP is getting harder and harder.
None of this is impossible, just annoying and time consuming.
edit: the only computer I have access to is the library computer.
It is an old old Dell computer still with the Windows XP pro sticker on it
Every attemp to instal Ubuntu fails
Well, I've got good news and bad news. I found several Win98SE installation disks but none are for Dell machines and besides Win98 is museum fodder. Unfortunately, I have no available WinXP generic install disks either. But I do have several WinXP reinstall CD sets (OS CD and driver CDs and app CDs) for various Dell model machines (eg: Dell Dimension 4300S, Inspiron 4000, Dimension 3000, Dimension 4550, Inspiron 8200, Dimension 2350, Dimension C521) The problem with this is that some of the CD sets are incomplete and don't have all the drivers or apps for the particular machines. And the OS CD may or may not be compatible with your particular machine. Rebuilding an old Dell from incomplete sets can be done if you have the compatible OS CD and download the required drivers and apps from the Dell website but it's sometimes tricky, and the Dell website may no longer provide the downloads for the drivers & apps for obsolete machines.
Which Dell do you have? Laptop or Desktop? And which model?
How about if you do not have a windows disc for it, How about Ubuntu or other flavour of linux?
Sorry, I know nothing useful about installing Linux type systems anymore.
Two versions of that model are listed (Dimension 4600 and 4600C) which probably differ in memory capacity or an onboard device chip type. However, you still need to get a Dell WindowsXP-Pro installation CD. I did a quick look on the Dell website and didn't find an official way to get the reinstallation CD sets anymore (they switched to a newer method a few years ago). If you are the original owner and registered your machine with them, then you could probably call them to ask if a CD set is still available. Cost was minimal and used to be around $10 or $15.
I'm sure you could find a Dell WinXP-Pro CD from various third parties on-line with unknown reliability or intentions! Also, you might ask around at local PC repair shops for help.
If you get any Dell XP-Pro installation CD it might work and your Microsoft key tag on the case should enable it. However, you still have to worry about the drivers and maybe some of the apps. Downloading the drivers from Dell website works IF you get the right driver to match the particular device chip in your machine (they often have several alternatives) . It can be an interesting and lengthy process to determine which drivers are necessary or work. For example, if your OS installation doesn't have the driver for the network chip then you have to find another way to download the driver and get it transferred to your machine. Oy!!
The other alternative for restoring your machine is to find and activate its recovery partition. Unfortunately, even if it ever had one, you said you'd been trying to install Linux so there's a possibility that you've clobbered the recovery partition somewhere along the line.
Even if you're successful in getting WinXP-Pro installed on your machine it may be needed to be upgraded to XP-ServicePack3 so that's another piece of major software to be found and downloaded. A few years ago all this fiddly stuff would have been relatively simple but XP has been unsupported for a long time and restoring an old XP is getting harder and harder.
None of this is impossible, just annoying and time consuming.
if i amtrak it up to masschuset, do they sell the marijuana cigarettes next to the regular cigarettes? how does it work?
There are no shops for recreational yet, only medicinal. It might be a while before they get it sorted out. You can have it, use it, grow it, but no shops are licensed yet. I don't think they though it through well. They probably didn't think the law would pass.
Two versions of that model are listed (Dimension 4600 and 4600C) which probably differ in memory capacity or an onboard device chip type. However, you still need to get a Dell WindowsXP-Pro installation CD. I did a quick look on the Dell website and didn't find an official way to get the reinstallation CD sets anymore (they switched to a newer method a few years ago). If you are the original owner and registered your machine with them, then you could probably call them to ask if a CD set is still available. Cost was minimal and used to be around $10 or $15.
I'm sure you could find a Dell WinXP-Pro CD from various third parties on-line with unknown reliability or intentions! Also, you might ask around at local PC repair shops for help.
If you get any Dell XP-Pro installation CD it might work and your Microsoft key tag on the case should enable it. However, you still have to worry about the drivers and maybe some of the apps. Downloading the drivers from Dell website works IF you get the right driver to match the particular device chip in your machine (they often have several alternatives) . It can be an interesting and lengthy process to determine which drivers are necessary or work. For example, if your OS installation doesn't have the driver for the network chip then you have to find another way to download the driver and get it transferred to your machine. Oy!!
The other alternative for restoring your machine is to find and activate its recovery partition. Unfortunately, even if it ever had one, you said you'd been trying to install Linux so there's a possibility that you've clobbered the recovery partition somewhere along the line.
Even if you're successful in getting WinXP-Pro installed on your machine it may be needed to be upgraded to XP-ServicePack3 so that's another piece of major software to be found and downloaded. A few years ago all this fiddly stuff would have been relatively simple but XP has been unsupported for a long time and restoring an old XP is getting harder and harder.
None of this is impossible, just annoying and time consuming.
Two versions of that model are listed (Dimension 4600 and 4600C) which probably differ in memory capacity or an onboard device chip type. However, you still need to get a Dell WindowsXP-Pro installation CD. I did a quick look on the Dell website and didn't find an official way to get the reinstallation CD sets anymore (they switched to a newer method a few years ago). If you are the original owner and registered your machine with them, then you could probably call them to ask if a CD set is still available. Cost was minimal and used to be around $10 or $15.
I'm sure you could find a Dell WinXP-Pro CD from various third parties on-line with unknown reliability or intentions! Also, you might ask around at local PC repair shops for help.
If you get any Dell XP-Pro installation CD it might work and your Microsoft key tag on the case should enable it. However, you still have to worry about the drivers and maybe some of the apps. Downloading the drivers from Dell website works IF you get the right driver to match the particular device chip in your machine (they often have several alternatives) . It can be an interesting and lengthy process to determine which drivers are necessary or work. For example, if your OS installation doesn't have the driver for the network chip then you have to find another way to download the driver and get it transferred to your machine. Oy!!
The other alternative for restoring your machine is to find and activate its recovery partition. Unfortunately, even if it ever had one, you said you'd been trying to install Linux so there's a possibility that you've clobbered the recovery partition somewhere along the line.
Even if you're successful in getting WinXP-Pro installed on your machine it may be needed to be upgraded to XP-ServicePack3 so that's another piece of major software to be found and downloaded. A few years ago all this fiddly stuff would have been relatively simple but XP has been unsupported for a long time and restoring an old XP is getting harder and harder.
None of this is impossible, just annoying and time consuming.
if i amtrak it up to masschuset, do they sell the marijuana cigarettes next to the regular cigarettes? how does it work?
There are no shops for recreational yet, only medicinal. It might be a while before they get it sorted out. You can have it, use it, grow it, but no shops are licensed yet. I don't think they though it through well. They probably didn't think the law would pass.
Dana
was lookin forward to to not having to worry about what they adding, like worse than oregano.
but then again, considering what they can legally put in tobacco cigarettes >.<
if i amtrak it up to masschuset, do they sell the marijuana cigarettes next to the regular cigarettes? how does it work?
There are no shops for recreational yet, only medicinal. It might be a while before they get it sorted out. You can have it, use it, grow it, but no shops are licensed yet. I don't think they though it through well. They probably didn't think the law would pass.
Dana
was lookin forward to to not having to worry about what they adding, like worse than oregano.
but then again, considering what they can legally put in tobacco cigarettes >.<
I don't think you would need to worry about that. Maybe if Phillip Morris starts manufacturing them in packages for sale, then worry.
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tea kettle is whistlin
ear bones, makes elf ears more fun
Desktop I know for sure.
Oh I forgot to say it is a Dimension 4600 according to the box. I took a photo of it but it is not on this device to my knowledge.
nyquil!
hoping it doesnt spoil my dragon dreams
if i amtrak it up to masschuset, do they sell the marijuana cigarettes next to the regular cigarettes? how does it work?
every time i see that man shaped hole thread,
it makes me think of the club in nyc,
almost same name doesnt have the word shape in it
How about if you do not have a windows disc for it, How about Ubuntu or other flavour of linux?
Checking at www.Dell.com I found that they apparently still provide drivers and apps for that machine at http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Products/desktop/dimension_desktops
Two versions of that model are listed (Dimension 4600 and 4600C) which probably differ in memory capacity or an onboard device chip type. However, you still need to get a Dell WindowsXP-Pro installation CD. I did a quick look on the Dell website and didn't find an official way to get the reinstallation CD sets anymore (they switched to a newer method a few years ago). If you are the original owner and registered your machine with them, then you could probably call them to ask if a CD set is still available. Cost was minimal and used to be around $10 or $15.
I'm sure you could find a Dell WinXP-Pro CD from various third parties on-line with unknown reliability or intentions! Also, you might ask around at local PC repair shops for help.
If you get any Dell XP-Pro installation CD it might work and your Microsoft key tag on the case should enable it. However, you still have to worry about the drivers and maybe some of the apps. Downloading the drivers from Dell website works IF you get the right driver to match the particular device chip in your machine (they often have several alternatives) . It can be an interesting and lengthy process to determine which drivers are necessary or work. For example, if your OS installation doesn't have the driver for the network chip then you have to find another way to download the driver and get it transferred to your machine. Oy!!
The other alternative for restoring your machine is to find and activate its recovery partition. Unfortunately, even if it ever had one, you said you'd been trying to install Linux so there's a possibility that you've clobbered the recovery partition somewhere along the line.
Even if you're successful in getting WinXP-Pro installed on your machine it may be needed to be upgraded to XP-ServicePack3 so that's another piece of major software to be found and downloaded. A few years ago all this fiddly stuff would have been relatively simple but XP has been unsupported for a long time and restoring an old XP is getting harder and harder.
None of this is impossible, just annoying and time consuming.
I am not looking to have Windows on this machine any more but to have Ubuntu or Linux to have a semi working computer until I can figure out how to get a windows box again.
edit: the only computer I have access to is the library computer.
Sorry, I know nothing useful about installing Linux type systems anymore.
Morning. Perfect summer day, so far not too hot not too cold and a spotless blue sky. On the downside haz to go to dentist for checkup :)
ear ear :)
I got a headache all day but I just took a pain killer. Auggghh.
aye aye harrr lol
need a demon skin shader set up
which dimension?
5th dimension is time squared
There are no shops for recreational yet, only medicinal. It might be a while before they get it sorted out. You can have it, use it, grow it, but no shops are licensed yet. I don't think they though it through well. They probably didn't think the law would pass.
Dana
The Fifth Dimension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE
let the sunshine in-iiinnn, + 1 octave
/ who invented musical notation, and are they related to people who invented the soap
was lookin forward to to not having to worry about what they adding, like worse than oregano.
but then again, considering what they can legally put in tobacco cigarettes >.<
complainnnts - but too tired to type about it
I don't think you would need to worry about that. Maybe if Phillip Morris starts manufacturing them in packages for sale, then worry.
Dana
Oh no you dint...
Say hello to my little friend...
OMG, it is He and MiniHe!!
Hello friend
Or...What's that terrible smell?
Dana
Is that you?
Dana
last cuppa tea for tnite, must sleep, must work tomorrow, will need the doh for march madness sale
did my first render of g3f geo pro bit. is on my da
seems a lil more detailed than g2f's
night night