[vox-tech] booting off cd help

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 4 May 2003 12:27:17 -0700


no offense, but i don't think so...




begin Eric D. Pierce <epierce@surewest.net> 
> e.g.
> 
> (Intel 845G chipset)
> 
> http://www5.pc.ibm.com/us/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_830725U
> 
> IBM list price (new): $899
> ITXchange price (new): $641
> 
> (or go to  http://www.pc.ibm.com/support and type the seven 
> character part# {minus the hyphen} into "quick path")
> 
> As Linux person you are presumably "wasting" some money 
> buying an IBM desktop since Win2K-Pro is included, but IBM 
> give's you rights to a Win2K recovery CD (factory image) 
> that you might find useful for something.
> 
> note that IBM has developed a bad habit of shipping sucky
> (feature deficient) standard keyboards and mice (IMO) 
> recently.
> 
> regards,
> ep
> 
> 
> > did the system come with a a hardware diagnostic program?
> > 
> > fwiw, IBM desktops comes with this: http://www.pc-doctor.com
> > 
> > http://www.itxchange.com/scripts/plookup_ibm.idc?pr=03+-+Desktop++-+Pentium+4
> 
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