When I opened the message, I found that Wayne Johnson had written:
> Gee, how many watts is the PS in the new case? If it's only 150 watts
> then you wouldn't be any better off.
300 watts.
> Maybe you'd be better off buying an external case for the drive &
> plug it into a USB port on the wife's machine. You wouldn't have to
> worry about the power supply in the computer but you would have to
> slide the new drive into the new case then plugging in the new
> external drive & case into a wall outlet & a USB port. Ah but if the
> machine is that old & if she's running 9x then you may be stuck with
> USB 1.1 & not the faster 2.0 no matter which external case you
> buy. You did know that you can buy external drives already mounted
> in an external case tho didn't you? Sure you did so you probably
> won't like that idea I had.
> Oh what the heck, at least I tried.
Thanks for your help and suggestions, Wayne
Actually, buy.com has a 120Gig External that might be a better idea.
It's $49.99 after a $20 rebate.
Her computer must be older than I thought. The date code on the
existing HD (20 Gig....Wow!!..whatta whopper) is 02162, so that may
be of the 2002 variety.
Also, someone mentioned that the computer might only recognize
137Gig, so the 250 would be a waste in her computer.
However, searching for info on the Intel 810 chipset, I found that Intel
has an Application Accellerator which can be downloaded and used to
overcome that limitation. How? You gotta be kidding!!!
My wife's flying back from Calif tomorrow and I wanted to have the
new drive in for her. I didn't realize she was running only a 20 Gig
drive with only 3 Gig remaining. No wonder she's having problems and
slow downs <smile>.
Any further suggestions or comments welcome.....even the smart alec
ones <smile>.
Regards,
Jim
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