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    [SOLVED] Please help me! Installing OS to an old pc

    I don’t have anything on the win 98 pc that I need. I tried this before on another pc (I have 5 pcs I want to do this with, all with the same problems)., but I think I unplugged to soon and can’t get the other drive to be detected anywhere. I will try this tonight and update. Thanks for the...
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    [SOLVED] Please help me! Installing OS to an old pc

    So, I unplug my NVR mean drive on my newer motherboard, connect the IDE to sata, and boot the windows 98 on my new motherboard, then insert my windows XP optical disk, and that’s it? There won’t be any problems with windows 98 detecting the hardware enough to install the operating system? I...
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    [SOLVED] Please help me! Installing OS to an old pc

    so I believe that I have the capabilities to attache the IDE hardrive to a sata on my new motherboard and install to it and implant the drive back to the win98 hardware. I am just concerned with this. I have never done it. How can I install a second operating on a second hardrive without messing...
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    [SOLVED] Please help me! Installing OS to an old pc

    Hello! So I am trying to upgrade an old windows 98 pc to windows xp and I am having a terrible time trying to do so. I have hareware checked and am compatible with the windows xp OS. My problem is that I can not get any data in or out of this pc. It currently runs Windows 98 second edition. I...
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    [SOLVED] Using a pwm fan hub to split power, no attached motherboard. I need help, please!

    Thanks very much for the insight! You probably right, I didn’t quite fully understand how it works. I was assuming there was a way to convert it after the fan hub. I think I can leave the hub in place for the LEDs, they seem to be fine. But even if I use the molex to 5v that you mention, I...
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    [SOLVED] Using a pwm fan hub to split power, no attached motherboard. I need help, please!

    Okay so I have been trying to power 9 120mm 5v fans (these fans are designed for use with a raspberry pi gpio pin connection; furthermore, it has LEDs in it; the fan is designed such that the LEDs and fan are separately powered; meaning two 5v wires and two ground wires to plug in) I am using a...