Converting Windows 2000 Server to PlainJane

[Kdwom]

It's me again, still working on the project of giving second hand computers to the disabled and elderly in my little corner of the world.
I have been into this one already, a Dell Dimension 4100, P3 1000, I made a hard drive swap to a 98SE, now am going into the config portion, dropping out server devices....one step at a time. It looks doable but I am sure there are things I really need to know that I have no idea about. I will spend some time looking it up on Dell now, checking settings and such. I would like it to end up being my tester for the second hand hard drives I clean up, driver downloads, programs I use, etc.
Any info will be useful, I have never converted a server before.
Thanks

[Paul Komski]

I have never converted a server before

Well a server is just a computer (usually with higher than normal specifications) so there should generally be no intrinsic problem.

Similarly, such server software is just an operating system - that expects to have higher than normal hardware underpinning it.

Large drives can be problematic on older systems and too much RAM (>512MB) can be problematic on the DOS-based OSes such as Win98 but as long as you can get the drivers for the hardware, going back in time to Win98 on a P3 should not be problematic.

Dell Dimension 4100 Drivers/Downloads for Win98