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notabitail said:
My grandfather gave me a couple old computers. One of them is a Dell with a late Pentium 4 Presshot CPU (I think) and the other a early Core i3 HP. The Dell functions, thought the motherboard has terrible expandability (a single PCIe 1x slot and two PCI slots) and the HP has a dead power supply (it clicks every second and does not turn on).
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Chicken_Obsesser said:
Do you have BYC on some of the older PCs? If so, lol this is a dumb question but does it look the same or is it an older version? It would look the same but still.
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I have used BYC on a old Northwood Pentium 4 PC I have. With Supermium it manages to scrape by, load BYC, and have a passable experience for a 20-year-old PC. I still need to try that on the newer Prescott one though.
 
notabitail said:
OK. Hold on. What version of Windows is it running?
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If it's running XP or Vista, it won't update. This might work but I have not tried it: https://legacyupdate.net/.

Supposedly it works for Windows 7, which does have update issues as well.

I presume you're using XP, based off of the specification of 2005.
 
Finchbreeder said:
I tell my son IT is why I have him.
He tells me his middle name is not "help desk"
Yes he did go to Uni twice to get pieces of paper that say he is a Super Geek.
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I've turned into a help desk for my family. Usually more helpful too since I know just about everything regarding their PCs.
 

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