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Title: Donations
Post by: sprint on December 11, 2002, 12:07:31 AM
I'm trying to help a good friend of mine and a former fishing buddy who died a few years ago, to help his widow and son upgrade his computer. The puter is a custom built POS , that she paid way to much money for 3 years ago. The CPU is a P2 /a Intel mobo with built in sound and video. The computer has a 6 meg HD that the builder partion into 2 drives .. I got involved because the OS wasn't working right (drive C was filled and drive D was empty)

The display properties tells me that the video is a Nvidia Riva 128/128 zx. The mobo does not have a AGP slot , only PCI's and a bunch of ISA slots. I had an extra stick of RAM (128 ) that I put in for a total of 192.

I was wondering if anyone has a PCI TNT/TNT2 card lying around in some box that they would like to donate.

The kid loves to play airplane games and likes to play WB and AH .... very very slowly, of course. BTW his Mother has pilot license

sprint
*MOL*


captjohn@adelphia.net
Title: Donations
Post by: DR00 on December 11, 2002, 08:51:32 AM
Sent you two e-mails (cause I don't read too well) regarding what I have. You can have it all if you want it.
Title: Thanks Droo
Post by: sprint on December 11, 2002, 09:44:20 AM
I sent you a email.

Thank you very very much Droo .. I know it will be appreciated.

You can shoot my tail feathers off any time you want :)


sprint
*MOL*
Title: Donations
Post by: DR00 on December 11, 2002, 09:50:35 AM
No I can't. That could jeapordize my title as the record holder for the lowest  kill/sortie percentage.
Title: Droo
Post by: sprint on December 11, 2002, 09:57:00 AM
Well, its up to you ... but they don't call me bait for nothing.

sprint
Title: Donations
Post by: DR00 on December 12, 2002, 07:56:22 AM
Package went out today Fedex. Forgot that I put the
p3v4x in a puter for my sisters kid. Threw in a 440bx board(AGP) and a sound card. Good luck.
Title: Donations
Post by: Curval on December 12, 2002, 11:50:31 AM
Damn Droo that was really nice of you.  
Title: Donations
Post by: DR00 on December 12, 2002, 12:17:22 PM
All I did was find a home for some long removed components. The guy who REALLY deserves the , is Sprint. He's the one who is taking the time to make a difference.
Title: Donations
Post by: sprint on December 12, 2002, 12:17:24 PM
Damn Droo that was really nice of you

Sure was :D
Title: Donations
Post by: Reschke on December 12, 2002, 10:14:42 PM
Sprint I have a joystick just sitting here in my desk that needs a home. Its an old Thrustmaster FCS and I don't have any use for it. It works fine as of the last time I used it a couple of years ago. I also have an Soyo motherboard that I don't know what it will run but it has never been used. If you know of anyone else that needs some hardware its yours also. I have to get rid of this stuff.
Title: Reschke
Post by: sprint on December 12, 2002, 10:21:21 PM
Thanks ..

I sent you an email .. dont know if it will work tho. Please send me an email.

sprint

captjohn@adelphia.net


:)
Title: Donations
Post by: Reschke on December 12, 2002, 10:24:01 PM
Got your email and sending reply.
Title: Thanks Guys
Post by: sprint on December 13, 2002, 09:25:08 AM
Thanks for all the support from this community. BUT ... I do need
one more thing. The kid's box had 66Mhz RAM .. I gave him my only 128 PC100Mhz RAM that I had left .... would like to to add another 128.

Thanks
Sprint
*MOL*

captjohn@adelphia.net
Title: Donations
Post by: DR00 on December 13, 2002, 02:39:18 PM
If you don't get one, let me know.
Title: Donations
Post by: rc51 on December 14, 2002, 11:59:35 PM
Of all the CRAP I have rad in this bbs over the year.
It is really cool to see people come together and help someone out.
WTG guys!!!
My hat is off to all of you.:)
Title: Donations
Post by: DR00 on December 15, 2002, 09:02:31 AM
That's pretty scarry;)
Title: Donations
Post by: sprint on December 15, 2002, 09:35:02 AM
:)
sprint
Title: THANK YOU
Post by: fisher on March 06, 2003, 07:44:38 PM
Hello guys, this is fisher, I'm the kid that sprint wanted to help.  I want to thank everyone that went thru your boxes of used computer parts.  My computer now rocks, I get just under 6000 3D marks.  I now have 384 megs of ram, two hard drives, a new joy stick, a new mouse and a SB Live soundcard.  Sprint put it all together with all the latest drivers and updates.  My mother bought me GeForce 3 Ti200.  

I hope to get a full time account this summer if my grades hold up.  Once again I want to thank everyone for helping out.

fisher
:D
Title: Donations
Post by: Tarmac on March 06, 2003, 07:58:59 PM
Freakin amazing.  Never seen anything like it.  

A huge to you guys.

Welcome fisher.   :)
Title: Donations
Post by: Gremlin on March 07, 2003, 08:08:40 AM


You guys are pretty amazing.

to you all.
Title: Donations
Post by: Ghosth on March 07, 2003, 08:41:25 AM
To Sprint who saw a need & addressed it, and to all those who sent parts. A Hearty SALUTE from me & the 332nd Flying Mongrels.

Well done sirs!
Title: Donations
Post by: sprint on March 07, 2003, 08:59:10 AM
A new CPU was put in also, a Celeron 1.4GHz.. not O/C yet

sprint
:cool:
Title: Donations
Post by: Eagler on March 07, 2003, 10:03:26 AM
very cool
Title: Donations
Post by: Reschke on March 07, 2003, 10:10:38 AM
I just wanted to say thanks to sprint for bringing this need out and to Fisher for sending me the email telling me thanks. That is not something that happens everyday but I am glad that I was able to help someone with a need for the things I had laying around my house.

! Sprint. Thanks for helping out Fisher!
Title: Donations
Post by: Ode on March 20, 2003, 06:51:21 PM
WTG guys, doing stuff like this is a very good thing..