Man, I feel you. I suggest you urge him to thrown down for a more
modern mobo, so people don't have to support the old stuff. It's hard!
Why not get him an Intel NUC or a mac mini (for Windows)?
On 6/17/2014 11:51 AM, DSinc wrote:
Am I biting off more than I can chew???????
So my older Brother runs XP, but wants to upgrade to Win8.1PRO-64bit.
OK, fine. He says both W7 and W8.1 MS tester apps tell him he is good to
upgrade.
His PC uses a Gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2G m/b, anAMD Athlon64
cpu, and 2GB of ram. I do not know what level his bios is currently at.
No, I do not know how old this PC is, but could be maybe 8-10yrs old.
I have 'talked'
him through disabling his nVidia 6100 on-board chip and installing a
modern video
card. I have 'talked him through upgrading his internal cooling fans.
Clearly, he is
NOT a PC Internals kind of person. He is an application wonk.
So now he tells me he bought, and, wishes to install a Crucial MX100
128GB SSD!
I now do not have a good feeling that his m/b logic can support an
SSD; EXCEPT
VIA 'IDE.' There is no mention about 'AHCI.'
OK. so I go read the SATA-II connections. All the text in this section
is focused at, and,
speaking about RAID! Clearly not on my list of set-up options.
................... :)
Or, I could choose RAID0 (mirror), use one SSD, and let it go
'non-redundant!
I do not feel crazy yet, but the more I read, the more I start leaning
toward, "You really
can NOT do the!
Opinions, suggestions, experiences are gratefully appreciated.
Duncan
