You need a SATA controller to use SATA drives. All the current machines that have SATA also have an ATA or IDE connector on the motherboard for use with cd drives. That will allow you to connect your old disk to copy stuff over. Any current machine you buy will be 64 bit. You might as well load an x64 version of windows since Microsoft has yet to come out with any upgrade path from x86 to x64. Soon, you will only be able to get x64 versions of Windows. Neither Intel or AMD are making any more x86 CPU's - except for specialty dedicated controllers.
As a side note, Small Business Server 2008 will be released only as an x64 version (Exchange 2007 is x64 only). Anyone running SBS now will need to do a complete reinstall to move to SBS2008. There is no upgrade. They bumped the Premium version of SBS2008 to run on 2 servers and are coming out with a new product called EBS2008 (Essential Business Server) that will run on 3 (standard) or 4 (premium) servers. The only drawback I see on that eMachine is a limit of 2-gig of ram. These days, that's not much and may not be enough to run the next version of Windows. Personally, I'd go with an Asus M2A-VM and an athlon x2 6400 dual-core cpu. They are dirt cheap now. That will play HD and Blu-ray on you nice TV. The motherboard comes with an OEM version of CyberLink. You need that to play high def and costs more than the motherboard is selling for now. -Dave Walton On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So my computer that I have been having all the trouble with, I built it in > 01. It was pretty top of the line then, amd 1.6 processor, something like > that, 7xx meg ram. i beefed it up pretty good and it has run great 24/7 > since. Have had to replace a few power supplies but other than that no > problems. Current problem is of course software related, but thinking > about either replacing its hard drive and start from scratch, them moving > over what I need, or just buying a whole new computer, wiping out the > vista crap, and install XP. Office depot has this on sale, look like a > POS? Seems cheap: > > > http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/109410/T3646-Desktop-Computer-With-AMD-Processor/ > > If I go with a new drive, mine is ATA, but I see SATA looks like now, will > these SATA drives work with my ATA controller or will I have to find a ATA > drive? > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
