Just to wrap-up the thread I started about things I needed to understand
to help my
OB upgrade his old Athlon 64/Gigabyte m/b PC from WinXP to Win8.1pro.
The mechanical bits went quite well. His new 128GB SSD got installed and
cabled.
He removed his old 160GB XP EMHD. All his data was backed up.
Yesterday morning OB powered off his PC to vacuum out all cat hair,
install his new
4GB of RAM,and, double check all his cabling. He completed all this and
then called me
do the actual power back on, and install of W8.1pro. The PC failed to
power back on and
complete POST. The infamous Black Screen presented itself, but, the
cooling fans in the PC
were running (OK, +12v was alive), but the m/b remained essentially
dead. The optical drive
with the install DVD pre-loaded failed to do anything. We comiserated. I
mentioned that this
was a possibility. That did not ease his anger.
OB decided to contact a local resident of his new neighborhood
complexwho does PC diagnosis/repair
and SW install for members of the neighborhood.
OB called this AM and said his new diagnosis confirmed a newly dead PC
m/b................... :(
So, OB is now shopping a new desktop PC(believe with an Intel Core-i5
processor).
He is looking at Dell. I will share what he eventually chooses.
I truly appreciate all the help the Collective shared during this really
intense (for me) period of trying to
do a long-distance upgrade that ultimately failed. No harm, no foul.
Just a bad roll of the dice.
Thankyou,
Duncan
