Since I've been doing so much computer maintenance/rebuilds here lately, I figured it was about time to take care of my own business by addressing the long overdue rebuild of my kids' computers. They only use them to play games, so wiping them out and reloading them is no big thing... just time consuming.
Their systems are just P133s with ~4GB drives, 32MB RAM and Win98, so doing pretty much anything is dreadfully slow. Though they handle the kid games pretty good still.
To preserve drive space and prevent original CD damage I copy all of their game media to my PC and then install them over the home network so they don't have to mess with putting the CDs in, their systems just grab what they need from my machine over the network.
So I'm just about done rebuilding Darby's computer, partially prompted by her getting a new Barbie game for her birthday, and as I mentioned, everything is dreadfully slow compared to pretty much everything else I'm used to. HOWEVER, now when I get on my system (1 Ghz), which I had started to feel was getting slow as it is half the speed of my work computers, it feels blazing fast. Nothing like going from a 133 Mhz to 1000 Mhz to make you appreciate what you have.
After loading this new Barbie game, though, I'm noticing it's a bit choppy on the graphics. It wants a 3D graphics card, which I'm pretty sure her system doesn't have. In fact, it only has 1MB of video RAM. So I'm thinking I need to pick up a $15 16MB video card from eBay.
Next I rebuild Shelby's computer...
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