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Hello to all. I have this questions.

A friend gave me this pc Emachines T5224 (2.80 dual core, 1 gb ram, nvidia gforce7950 oc).

But it cames with windows VIsta Home premium. Somebody told me that it will be better with Xp pro (for FS9).

But this thing doesnt have floppy, so how do i install the sata disk( it as one WD 250 gb) im new on SATA DISKS (lol).

And it will be better the Xp Os for FS9?

Is it a good machine for FS9 (im thinking on increasing the mem to 2GB), it will hold FS with adds (planes and scenery).

Another question: Dual core 2.80, what is the true speed of the

I'm not sure what you mean by SATA and floppy :-?

But if it's dual core... and it says it's 2.80Ghz that means each Core is 2.80Ghz, using simple maths it is...5.60Ghz in total

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While most newer computers don't have floppy drives installed, many of the motherboards in those machines still have floppy headers on them. So you may be able to open the case, connect a floppy drive to that header and power and you'll be off and running. (also changing the BIOS to see the newly added drive, of course)

If that can't be done, you may need to burn your RAID drivers and software to a CD, and intall them that way.


"But it cames with windows VIsta Home premium. Somebody told me that it will be better with Xp pro (for FS9)."

Some say that a properly setup Vista OS can be as easy on resources as XP, but I for one would never care to find out. FS9 would work fine with Vista, but using XP would, on your machine, free up some essential resources that FS9 would certainly take advantage of.


"Is it a good machine for FS9 (im thinking on increasing the mem to 2GB), it will hold FS with adds (planes and scenery)."

FS9 should be quite happy running on it. Increasing your system's memory to 2gigs would DEFINATELY be a worth while purchase, regardless of which OS you plan to use. Some add-ons are more taxing on a system than others, like certain traffic and scenery add-ons, but for the most part,

Many thanks for the reply.
This machine cames with the Nvidia Gforce 7950 Oc 256meg.
Thank you

Pop your XP disk in the CD-ROM drive, set the boot sequence in the BIOS to CD 1st. An install should then commence from scratch.
Oh and FS9 seems to be much happier in XP than Vista and needs a LOT less fiddling