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[michaelahess]

Yeah, it works with anything, to properly do it with xp you have to setup the pre-installation image microsoft requires of oem's, I never bother, I just went into the reg and changed the key after the systems were images. It litteraly took 4-8 minutes to dump an average image from 1 networked pc to 20 others, multicast is great, and since the image is only a few gig at most, it's just quick.

 

[michaelahess]

Yeah, like I said before, spend a good hour building a solid system, image the drive to your network store, and ghost the sob to a crap load of machines at once.

Corp 8 is a lot better, supports more nic's and sata, and it's faster, though creating the image always takes a while.

When you have to build 100 machines or more, do 4 or 5 batches and you basically spend all of 1 hour and 30-45 minutes to put ALL the software on ALL the machines, instead of 1 hour per machine, saves a LOT of money and man hours I'd usually only do in lots of 20, that way I could let them run for a couple hours burnin while preparing my next batch, computer take up too much space. And I only had one 24-port switch that wouldn't crash when pushing that much multicast

Edit: I forgot, I used to do my own custom restore cd's. I'd get a ghost image of a customer pc right after building it, burn it to cd and I had a nice ASCI graphics batch file that would let you restore the image, make a new one to cd/dvd, or to a hidden partition I had on the HD, ala compaq and the big boys. It wasn't as polished cause I hate programming anything I don't have to but it was functional. Customers loved this since most people that go to buy a pc from a real computer store know they will have to reinstall everything from the original disks if it crashes, this gave them the best of both worlds, screaming fast machine that cost half as much, and easier system restore!

 

[deusex]

OK - should I do hardware/build/repair/upgrade only?, or NEtworking/web design too?

 

[michaelahess]

What's your networking experience? If all you've ever done is hook a couple pc's up to a linksys, I'd say no. If you know how to troubleshooting network issues, arp, dns, etc., then sure. I'll warn you that doing networks can take up a lot of time.

I had a couple projects involving wiring new buildings or upgrading wiring in old ones, and even with 2 or 3 other guys, it takes many days to do right. And if you do anything involving pulling cables through walls or ceilings, check your local state codes, you might need a low voltage certification.

 

[Grinch123456]

Turned 16 yesterday, on the 25th aniversery (sp?) of the first PC! What are the chances? I'm from New Jersey, and have built maybe 8 seperate computers although I always upgrade them at least once a year (like a little more ram for 5 bucks, using fatwallet), and mine twice a year. I got another gig of ram, an AMD X2 3800+, and a Biostar TForce SLI yesterday, and loving it.

 

[Coops07]

17 yrs old
accomplished 1 build with multiple upgrades (vid card, mobo, dvd burner, psu)
sold some stuff as well.

 

[alien_3333]

hello
im 18 and live in france... will be building my building my first pc within a month (altho ive deassembled and reassemble mine quite a dozen times...) and thats what im getting :

ASUS M2N-E nVidia nForce 570 socket AM2
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
SAPPHIRE Radeon X850XT
CRUCIAL - 1 Go - PC4200 - 533 MHz - CL4
SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.10 320Go Serial ATA 2 7200t 16Mo
ANTEC PERFORMANCE TX1050B - 500w
NEC ND-3550 - DVD±RW 16x - DVD+R9 8X - Dual Layer
SAMSUNG SyncMaster 940BW - 4ms - 19" wide - 500:1 - 300 cd/m2

+ 1 year zero dead pixel = 50 euros
+ shipping = 20 euros
+ mouse, keyboard, webcam ...

all for about 1200 euros = ~ 1500 $ which i think is a shit lot (i live in france i cant order from newegg.... 🙁🙁)

cheers!

 

[hergieburbur]

hello
im 18 and live in france... will be building my building my first pc within a month (altho ive deassembled and reassemble mine quite a dozen times...) and thats what im getting :

ASUS M2N-E nVidia nForce 570 socket AM2
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
SAPPHIRE Radeon X850XT
CRUCIAL - 1 Go - PC4200 - 533 MHz - CL4
SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.10 320Go Serial ATA 2 7200t 16Mo
ANTEC PERFORMANCE TX1050B - 500w
NEC ND-3550 - DVD±RW 16x - DVD+R9 8X - Dual Layer
SAMSUNG SyncMaster 940BW - 4ms - 19" wide - 500:1 - 300 cd/m2

+ 1 year zero dead pixel = 50 euros
+ shipping = 20 euros
+ mouse, keyboard, webcam ...

all for about 1200 euros = ~ 1500 $ which i think is a **** lot (i live in france i cant order from newegg.... 🙁🙁)

cheers!

That's strange that you have to pay for the one year zero dead pixle coverage. Here in the US all Samsung LCDs include that free.