Tony had requested a computer. Tom on the Yahoo!Group responded. Phil picked up the Dell system unit with hard disk but without optical drive. I brought up an external drive. Tony bought a new wifi mouse-keyboard combo on Black Friday. Someone dug out a CRT to monitor it. Steve took up with challenge of integrating it. I told him where to find a copy of Windows.
He got hung up when the Windows couldn't see the hard drive. I suggested checking the BIOS to see that it was listed. It did show. Dietmar wondered about the boot sequence but it was correct. Steve googled the matter. And learned, at last, that the drive could be configured to operate in an IDE compatibility mode. And that was the magic bullet. He was able to proceed with the Windows installation.
He and Tim worked on it for the balance of the evening to configure and update it.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
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