It wont physically work without adapters for both power and mounting. The cost of these will be more than getting a GX 620 tower. A Reinstall of the OS is also a problem.
Buy an Optiplex GX620 Tower. You can migrate the hard drive from the 2400 and it will boot and work.
It will also at that point be upgradeable to windows 7 or 8 or 10.
Doing nothing whatsoever more than upgrading to this system will be 500 percent faster out of the box.
I agree with speedstep. The best choice would be to buy a new system. The Dimension is something like 14 years old. Ancient as systems go. However, being a senior myself, I know that getting elderly users to accept buying a new system could be a tough sell at best. The SSD you suggested is only 32 GB and sounds like it might present some challenges installing in her system. If she is bound and determined to keep her system (spending some money might be an even tougher sell) then IDE hard drives are pretty cheap on Amazon. Now the problem becomes what OS to install. If she does not have the XP disks, they will be tricky to find as not even MS has XP available for download. So you could repair it but at what level of frustration for you and for your friend.
FYI, the minimum requirements for Windows 7.
The minimum requirements for Windows 7 are modest by today's standards: 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor. 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit) 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) -- just for the OS, not applications or data files.
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November 24th, 2018 07:00
It wont physically work without adapters for both power and mounting. The cost of these will be more than getting a GX 620 tower. A Reinstall of the OS is also a problem.
Buy an Optiplex GX620 Tower. You can migrate the hard drive from the 2400 and it will boot and work.
It will also at that point be upgradeable to windows 7 or 8 or 10.
Doing nothing whatsoever more than upgrading to this system will be 500 percent faster out of the box.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/REFURBISHED-Optiplex-GX620-Tower-400GB-HDD-4GB-Ram-DVD-Rom-Windows-XP-Professional/803416719?athcpid=803416719/
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November 25th, 2018 15:00
I agree with speedstep. The best choice would be to buy a new system. The Dimension is something like 14 years old. Ancient as systems go. However, being a senior myself, I know that getting elderly users to accept buying a new system could be a tough sell at best. The SSD you suggested is only 32 GB and sounds like it might present some challenges installing in her system. If she is bound and determined to keep her system (spending some money might be an even tougher sell) then IDE hard drives are pretty cheap on Amazon. Now the problem becomes what OS to install. If she does not have the XP disks, they will be tricky to find as not even MS has XP available for download. So you could repair it but at what level of frustration for you and for your friend.
FYI, the minimum requirements for Windows 7.
The minimum requirements for Windows 7 are modest by today's standards: 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor. 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit) 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) -- just for the OS, not applications or data files.
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November 26th, 2018 05:00
The specific model I am recommending can migrate the 2400's hard drive because it has both SATA and IDE.
The GX620 TOWER is a unique model that has all the old legacy ports
and works with ALL VERSIONS of windows from 3.1 thru 10.
So MSDOS , WIN95, WIN98, WINME, WIN2000, WINXP, VISTA, 7, 8, 10.
Its new enough to take Pentium D 915 up to 960 CPU and has 4 gigs ram max with 3.5 useable REGARDLESS of whether or not its a 64 bit os.
With a minimal PCI-E video card like a GTX 750TI it runs most everything just fine as well as the aforementioned OS.
Some of my clients have started hoarding these models because they need the Serial port and Parallel port as well as the floppy Drive.
Newer models like the GX780 for example do not have IDE, do not have floppy controller etc.