Getting a hard drive for a Aptiva?

Igor Batinic wrote
PoopskinTheLiar wrote:

"182137e26af11lm2"

It seems that you have M/T 2137-e26. Try to find support with that.

http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000...va/a2137sa.pdf

Hard drive's arrived and i've installed it. problem is, i only had one
spare screw. will this affect anything?

PoopskinTheLiar wrote:
Hard drive's arrived and i've installed it. problem is, i only had one
spare screw. will this affect anything?

Not as long as you use it appropriately.

PoopskinTheLiar wrote:

Hard drive's arrived and i've installed it. problem is,
i only had one spare screw. will this affect anything?

Only if you drop it etc.

On Nov 20, 8:28*pm, "Rod Speed" wrote:
PoopskinTheLiar wrote:
Hard drive's arrived and i've installed it. problem is,
i only had one spare screw. will this affect anything?

Only if you drop it etc.

Installed windows 98, installed a better video driver (it defaulted to
640x480x16! Yuck!) and it runs like a charm. What seems odd is that it
has 128mb RAM and a AMD duron, yet says "Designed for Windows 95".
Apparently the old owner's been doing some tinkering around inside it!

I'll have to install windows 2000 at some point, i guess.

PoopskinTheLiar wrote
Rod Speed wrote
PoopskinTheLiar wrote

Hard drive's arrived and i've installed it. problem is,
i only had one spare screw. will this affect anything?

Only if you drop it etc.

Installed windows 98, installed a better video driver (it
defaulted to 640x480x16! Yuck!) and it runs like a charm.

What seems odd is that it has 128mb RAM and a AMD duron,

How did you decide its got a duron ? The 2137 could have the AMD K6.

yet says "Designed for Windows 95". Apparently the
old owner's been doing some tinkering around inside it!

Its more likely what is reporting the Duron is getting confused.

What does Everest say about the cpu ?
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

I'll have to install windows 2000 at some point, i guess.

PoopskinTheLiar wrote:
On Nov 20, 8:28 pm, "Rod Speed" wrote:
PoopskinTheLiar wrote:
Hard drive's arrived and i've installed it. problem is,
i only had one spare screw. will this affect anything?
Only if you drop it etc.

Installed windows 98, installed a better video driver (it defaulted to
640x480x16! Yuck!) and it runs like a charm. What seems odd is that it
has 128mb RAM and a AMD duron, yet says "Designed for Windows 95".
Apparently the old owner's been doing some tinkering around inside it!

I'll have to install windows 2000 at some point, i guess.

Don't get your expectations TOO high ... my neighbor's has been a solid,
reliable machine until I helped her retire it recently, but it is
definitely slow by current standards. She replaced it with a $200
Lenovo desktop machine based on the Atom processor (not especially known
for speed), and the difference is amazing.