Mhurkrothe
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I have an ancient computer that I've been upgrading ever since my old good one blew up during a lightning storm. Anyway, I've reached the peak of what I can get for upgrades without needing to order via an online store like TigerDirect. It is an Acer Aspire T320 and my problem is this: I used to be able to play one of the only 3 MMORPGs I ever played extensively perfectly fine when I had nothing but the onboard Intel 82865G graphics. Now, however, it won't run with my new upgraded video card because according to the devs the game has issues with my cards chipset. So I'm trying to figure out how to dual boot using the Acer recovery disks I got with my system so I can have one partition with the Intel drivers and one with my new cards drivers. But the big problem(s) I'm having are the fact that I have no way to install any windows version other than with the recovery disks, I have no Windows 98 boot disk to fdisk a partition, I have no partition manager program, the recovery disks give me 2 options "Use existing partition Drive C:\" and "Create different partition" however, the second option doesn't actually let me create a second one it just rewrites the first one, and lastly Acer tech support can't help me because my warranty is expired (I could've told them that if they had bothered to mention the fact that I need a valid warranty to use email support too) and they redirected me to an "Answers by Acer" phone number that I'm not even going to bother with because it costs 59.99 for 30 minute intervals with a one year limit and I'll never use it after this anyway. So, if anybody with knowledge about my model specific question could give me a solution that can be done with my current situation (ex: not buying anything else nor downloading any pirated stuff either as that leads to a chronically viral infested computer and goes against my morales anyway)
If it matters I'll post my specs too, here they are:
Intel Celeron 2.79GHz processor
1024MB PC3200 400MHz DDR RAM
BFG GeForce 6200 256MB PCI video card (yes you heard right I'm stuck with crappy PCI, I don't even have a freaking AGP slot)
A-Open AW-840 PCI audio card
Diablotek 500W power supply
40GB IDE factory shipped hard drive (like I said it's an ancient computer so good luck finding a bigger one in my area)
My motherboard is....don't ask me it doesn't say in my manual nor does it have a sticker or any info on the physical motherboard itself.
Thanks in advance.
If it matters I'll post my specs too, here they are:
Intel Celeron 2.79GHz processor
1024MB PC3200 400MHz DDR RAM
BFG GeForce 6200 256MB PCI video card (yes you heard right I'm stuck with crappy PCI, I don't even have a freaking AGP slot)
A-Open AW-840 PCI audio card
Diablotek 500W power supply
40GB IDE factory shipped hard drive (like I said it's an ancient computer so good luck finding a bigger one in my area)
My motherboard is....don't ask me it doesn't say in my manual nor does it have a sticker or any info on the physical motherboard itself.
Thanks in advance.