Bryan,
LOL! I understand your share. Know it will be passed on; even if I push it.
Yes, I have gotten him to think about maybe some new hdw. Sorry, Apple
is out.
But, he is coming around to the fact that his old PC may just be too old
to play.
Just now we are doing research and talking about a BIOS update. I sent
him the full
minimum requirements for Win7, Win8, and Win8.1. He is off papering
Gigabyte and AMD
about PAE, NX, and SSE2. When he gets his answers, we will continue. Our
discussion about
SATA, Pata/ATA, and, ESDI. drove him deep into the cave, but, he now
accepts and grasps SATA.
We have not yet OPENED his PC to check whether his current PSU has SATA
power connectors,
but he does know all about molex->Sata adapters, and, he has one for his
Crucial SSD. We both think
that Gigabyte gave him ONE SATA I/O cable.
At best, his Crucial SSD will start life on the m/b's IDE buss. I read
nothing in the UM that even ghostly
mentions AHCI. And what leads me to maybe a more modern m/b. Sadly, OB
says his PC runs fine on XP
and does everything he needs for it to do........ At that point, I just
have to back off and say, "Go with GOD."
JMHO.
Duncan
On 06/17/2014 16:32, Bryan Seitz wrote:
+1 million. Hell get him a mac mini for OSX cause it isn't that bad of a
switch depending on what he wants to do.
At the very least you should tell him to pony up for something not from the
late 90s ;0
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:01:27PM -0400, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
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.
