Thanks a lot C, I'll go just buying a good memory for my laptop.By the way i liked your team MacNN , i'll join it if they accept me.
We'd be happy to have you join the team, if you want to. Make sure you buy the correct memory for your computer. The URL I sent you may not be correct - you need to read the technical specifications and make sure they match your computer. Or, take your computer to a store and have them put in the correct memory.
ha ha bragging rights.... fantastic so im a loser right now then.
thanks for letting me know what they are guys i am now a little less clueless cheers :)
Chalky - you're no loser; you were intelligent enough to sign up for BOINC to help science, and you were intelligent enough to ask a question, and that's a sign of a future winner, not a loser.
ha ha bragging rights.... fantastic so im a loser right now then.
thanks for letting me know what they are guys i am now a little less clueless cheers :)
Chalky - you're no loser; you were intelligent enough to sign up for BOINC to help science, and you were intelligent enough to ask a question, and that's a sign of a future winner, not a loser.
C
awww thanks, you will make me blush if you dont stop being nice to me. ha ha
ha ha bragging rights.... fantastic so im a loser right now then.
thanks for letting me know what they are guys i am now a little less clueless cheers :)
Chalky - you're no loser; you were intelligent enough to sign up for BOINC to help science, and you were intelligent enough to ask a question, and that's a sign of a future winner, not a loser.
C
awww thanks, you will make me blush if you dont stop being nice to me. ha ha
I've done all my best for science, but unsuccessfully ! Yesterday i brought my PC to an engineer, seller of pc s, to install another 64 mb of RAM , but he hadn't one fitting my compaq 2000.He noticed that not only the memory but also the speed of pc was too slow. He proposed me to replace the XP windows by an 98 , then all will become normal and with my natural 64 mb i would be able to contribute in Computation and getting my "famous" credits. I left the pc 24 h in his shop. Today when i went to retrieve the pc, he told me that the hard-disc being defective , he couldn't install the windows 98, so he left intact the xp, instead he lightened all the programs which slowed the pc. I asked him :" what have you removed for example ?" He said :" well the McAfee anti-virus was very heavy for this pc , so i removed it and installed another one, and there was also a bizarre program, i couldn't understand, very heavy for your pc, so i removed it ".Surprised, i said :" I hope you have not removed Boinc "! He said :" Ah ! yes it was boinc, i removed it". I said : "Oh!all i'v done to improve the memory of my pc was for Boinc and you removed it ?" - "yes i remove it . You know this pc is very old, you should buy a new one with strong memory " . - "Ah , OK , Thank You !".
All my best for science !
...
He said :" Ah ! yes it was boinc, i removed it". I said : "Oh!all i'v done to improve the memory of my pc was for Boinc and you removed it ?" - "yes i remove it . You know this pc is very old, you should buy a new one with strong memory " . - "Ah , OK , Thank You !".
All my best for science !
...
He said :" Ah ! yes it was boinc, i removed it". I said : "Oh!all i'v done to improve the memory of my pc was for Boinc and you removed it ?" - "yes i remove it . You know this pc is very old, you should buy a new one with strong memory " . - "Ah , OK , Thank You !".
C, very nice of you and thanks a lot for your kindness and reply , i will try this link to see what can i do with , anyway i will inform you about my endeavours.
Yesterday i brought my PC to an engineer, seller of pc s, to install another 64 mb of RAM ....
Ariane,
I am truly very sorry that you have encountered all the difficulties you describe.
Yes, your PC is old and slow any many would say that it should be put to sleep permanently. However, if we adopted this attitude in all things, we may as well put down our favourite cat or dog when it starts to get on a bit in years. I looked carefully at the benchmarks produced by your machine and yes it probably would have taken close to 3 days to finish an EAH result but that is still well within the deadline even if you only ran your machine 8-10 hours per day.
What I was trying to do was suggest the easiest and cheapest minor upgrade to allow your machine to start to contribute. The contribution you could make is just as valuable as anyone elses and if your machine could be setup to start crunching, I am sure you would feel very good about it. Here are some further suggestions for you. Please don't be disheartened.
I noticed you were running WinXP SP2 and that you had completed the BOINC benchmarks. To get XP SP2 onto your hard disk, to get BOINC installed and running to the point where it actually completed and reported back the benchmark results for all to see is a tremendous achievement on its own. Did you do this yourself or did you get someone to help you? There can't be too much wrong with your hard disk if it was able to handle the XP and Boinc installs. It's rather unbelievable that someone would want to undo all that to go back to Win98. A much better option would be to remove some of the bloat from WinXP and take advantage of a much more stable operating environment. It also depends too on whether your file system is NTFS or FAT32 as to how easy it would be to go back to Win98. So here is a question. Can you still boot into WinXP and do you know if your file system is NTFS or FAT32? Also what is your hard disk size? To do this double click on "My Computer", right click on the hard disk icon (C:) and select properties. You will then be able to see the file system type, the used space and the free space. As long as you have around 500meg or more free space you will be fine to run Einstein.
We'll take this in nice easy stages. Post back if you can successfully do the above. Also let us know if you have a friend or relative who knows how to remove the screws to allow you to open your case. I can send you in the mail a stick of ram that could be plugged into your machine if you can find someone to undo the case. Plugging in a RAM stick is exactly the same degree of difficulty as plugging in your electric kettle into the power socket in the wall. The only possible difficulty which sometimes happens with older machines is that there might be particular slots that have to be used or particular jumpers or switches that have to be set to change the RAM configuration. If you send me the precise model number of your machine (do you have the original manual for it?) then I'm sure I can find it on the internet.
Yesterday i brought my PC to an engineer, seller of pc s, to install another 64 mb of RAM ....
Ariane,
I am truly very sorry that you have encountered all the difficulties you describe.
Yes, your PC is old and slow any many would say that it should be put to sleep permanently. However, if we adopted this attitude in all things, we may as well put down our favourite cat or dog when it starts to get on a bit in years. I looked carefully at the benchmarks produced by your machine and yes it probably would have taken close to 3 days to finish an EAH result but that is still well within the deadline even if you only ran your machine 8-10 hours per day.
What I was trying to do was suggest the easiest and cheapest minor upgrade to allow your machine to start to contribute. The contribution you could make is just as valuable as anyone elses and if your machine could be setup to start crunching, I am sure you would feel very good about it. Here are some further suggestions for you. Please don't be disheartened.
I noticed you were running WinXP SP2 and that you had completed the BOINC benchmarks. To get XP SP2 onto your hard disk, to get BOINC installed and running to the point where it actually completed and reported back the benchmark results for all to see is a tremendous achievement on its own. Did you do this yourself or did you get someone to help you? There can't be too much wrong with your hard disk if it was able to handle the XP and Boinc installs. It's rather unbelievable that someone would want to undo all that to go back to Win98. A much better option would be to remove some of the bloat from WinXP and take advantage of a much more stable operating environment. It also depends too on whether your file system is NTFS or FAT32 as to how easy it would be to go back to Win98. So here is a question. Can you still boot into WinXP and do you know if your file system is NTFS or FAT32? Also what is your hard disk size? To do this double click on "My Computer", right click on the hard disk icon (C:) and select properties. You will then be able to see the file system type, the used space and the free space. As long as you have around 500meg or more free space you will be fine to run Einstein.
We'll take this in nice easy stages. Post back if you can successfully do the above. Also let us know if you have a friend or relative who knows how to remove the screws to allow you to open your case. I can send you in the mail a stick of ram that could be plugged into your machine if you can find someone to undo the case. Plugging in a RAM stick is exactly the same degree of difficulty as plugging in your electric kettle into the power socket in the wall. The only possible difficulty which sometimes happens with older machines is that there might be particular slots that have to be used or particular jumpers or switches that have to be set to change the RAM configuration. If you send me the precise model number of your machine (do you have the original manual for it?) then I'm sure I can find it on the internet.
What do you think? Shall we give it a go?
Oh Gary, thank you for your care and attention, don't worry for what happened yesterday ,it was a very good experience for me , because the engineer showed me what is a RAM and where it should be installed and i had asked him a lot of questions about the mecanism of computer very instructive to me and it was also an occasion to encounter people in the city i live in,Tehran.
I will check now my hard disc' s possibilities and will inform you later but you asked me questions about my file system i don't know at all , anyway and fortunately the engineer didn't change my windows XP, because he couldn't or he hadn't time, and i have always my windows XP professional.
No Gary , i have no one to help me in what it could be (en quoi que ce soit), i do everything myself or when needed i buy services from technicians, that 's all, not any friend and not any relative .
By the way you said that i completed the Boinc benchmarks ....tremendous achivement on its own.... WOW ! Has my PC done something extraordinary or i've done something amazing without knowing it? Anyway i don't know what are benchmarks, but i want becoming familiar with this language, i mean the language of computer and science.
I will go checking the properties of my hard disc ...
RE: RE: C Thanks a lot
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We'd be happy to have you join the team, if you want to. Make sure you buy the correct memory for your computer. The URL I sent you may not be correct - you need to read the technical specifications and make sure they match your computer. Or, take your computer to a store and have them put in the correct memory.
C
Join Team MacNN
RE: ha ha bragging
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Chalky - you're no loser; you were intelligent enough to sign up for BOINC to help science, and you were intelligent enough to ask a question, and that's a sign of a future winner, not a loser.
C
Join Team MacNN
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awww thanks, you will make me blush if you dont stop being nice to me. ha ha
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LOL ! Very funny Chalky !
Ariane
All my best for science !
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All my best for science !
I've done all my best for science, but unsuccessfully ! Yesterday i brought my PC to an engineer, seller of pc s, to install another 64 mb of RAM , but he hadn't one fitting my compaq 2000.He noticed that not only the memory but also the speed of pc was too slow. He proposed me to replace the XP windows by an 98 , then all will become normal and with my natural 64 mb i would be able to contribute in Computation and getting my "famous" credits. I left the pc 24 h in his shop. Today when i went to retrieve the pc, he told me that the hard-disc being defective , he couldn't install the windows 98, so he left intact the xp, instead he lightened all the programs which slowed the pc. I asked him :" what have you removed for example ?" He said :" well the McAfee anti-virus was very heavy for this pc , so i removed it and installed another one, and there was also a bizarre program, i couldn't understand, very heavy for your pc, so i removed it ".Surprised, i said :" I hope you have not removed Boinc "! He said :" Ah ! yes it was boinc, i removed it". I said : "Oh!all i'v done to improve the memory of my pc was for Boinc and you removed it ?" - "yes i remove it . You know this pc is very old, you should buy a new one with strong memory " . - "Ah , OK , Thank You !".
Ariane
RE: All my best for science
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Ariane: [url=http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/72603/wo/yN5RTgrEZkLH2PINkA72Spsixsp/0.0.15.1.0.6.23.1.1.1.0.0.0.1.0] Here [/url/] is what you need.
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C, very nice of you and thanks a lot for your kindness and reply , i will try this link to see what can i do with , anyway i will inform you about my endeavours.
Ariane
RE: Yesterday i brought my
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Ariane,
I am truly very sorry that you have encountered all the difficulties you describe.
Yes, your PC is old and slow any many would say that it should be put to sleep permanently. However, if we adopted this attitude in all things, we may as well put down our favourite cat or dog when it starts to get on a bit in years. I looked carefully at the benchmarks produced by your machine and yes it probably would have taken close to 3 days to finish an EAH result but that is still well within the deadline even if you only ran your machine 8-10 hours per day.
What I was trying to do was suggest the easiest and cheapest minor upgrade to allow your machine to start to contribute. The contribution you could make is just as valuable as anyone elses and if your machine could be setup to start crunching, I am sure you would feel very good about it. Here are some further suggestions for you. Please don't be disheartened.
I noticed you were running WinXP SP2 and that you had completed the BOINC benchmarks. To get XP SP2 onto your hard disk, to get BOINC installed and running to the point where it actually completed and reported back the benchmark results for all to see is a tremendous achievement on its own. Did you do this yourself or did you get someone to help you? There can't be too much wrong with your hard disk if it was able to handle the XP and Boinc installs. It's rather unbelievable that someone would want to undo all that to go back to Win98. A much better option would be to remove some of the bloat from WinXP and take advantage of a much more stable operating environment. It also depends too on whether your file system is NTFS or FAT32 as to how easy it would be to go back to Win98. So here is a question. Can you still boot into WinXP and do you know if your file system is NTFS or FAT32? Also what is your hard disk size? To do this double click on "My Computer", right click on the hard disk icon (C:) and select properties. You will then be able to see the file system type, the used space and the free space. As long as you have around 500meg or more free space you will be fine to run Einstein.
We'll take this in nice easy stages. Post back if you can successfully do the above. Also let us know if you have a friend or relative who knows how to remove the screws to allow you to open your case. I can send you in the mail a stick of ram that could be plugged into your machine if you can find someone to undo the case. Plugging in a RAM stick is exactly the same degree of difficulty as plugging in your electric kettle into the power socket in the wall. The only possible difficulty which sometimes happens with older machines is that there might be particular slots that have to be used or particular jumpers or switches that have to be set to change the RAM configuration. If you send me the precise model number of your machine (do you have the original manual for it?) then I'm sure I can find it on the internet.
What do you think? Shall we give it a go?
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: What do you think?
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I'd say you're expecting even more miracles than she is.
-Mrs. anon
*I still know CRAP when I see it.
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Oh Gary, thank you for your care and attention, don't worry for what happened yesterday ,it was a very good experience for me , because the engineer showed me what is a RAM and where it should be installed and i had asked him a lot of questions about the mecanism of computer very instructive to me and it was also an occasion to encounter people in the city i live in,Tehran.
I will check now my hard disc' s possibilities and will inform you later but you asked me questions about my file system i don't know at all , anyway and fortunately the engineer didn't change my windows XP, because he couldn't or he hadn't time, and i have always my windows XP professional.
No Gary , i have no one to help me in what it could be (en quoi que ce soit), i do everything myself or when needed i buy services from technicians, that 's all, not any friend and not any relative .
By the way you said that i completed the Boinc benchmarks ....tremendous achivement on its own.... WOW ! Has my PC done something extraordinary or i've done something amazing without knowing it? Anyway i don't know what are benchmarks, but i want becoming familiar with this language, i mean the language of computer and science.
I will go checking the properties of my hard disc ...
Regards
Ariane