Yeah, that's kind of what I ran into in my most recent workstation
rebuild. I didn't want to build a new workstation, but XP went obsolete
& I had to "upgrade" while Windoze7 is still available if I don't want
to get stuck with that POS Windoze8.
Existing hardware still functioned with the occasional PM, but with
memory maxed out at 2GB, it wasn't going to run Windoze7. And the new
Motherboard wouldn't support my existing peripherals, so I had to
"upgrade" my DVD, video & sound cards. I've got 8GB of RAM installed now
and hopefully that will do me for a while.
I hope Windoze9 doesn't suck when it comes out & isn't so bloated it
won't run on my existing hardware.
On 7/15/2014 1:21 PM, Aggrivated at hotmail wrote:
I don't want to build a new desktop system, but unfortunately after
cleaning out the fans and blowing the dust out of the nooks and crannies
then reseating the video card, the machine get's halfway through postup
and hangs if it gets that far at all. I really need a workstation that
will at least run Windows7, Professional.
On 7/15/2014 9:05 AM, John wrote:
Might get by with a good cleaning inside the case ... vacuum out the
fins on the heat sink real good. Maybe replace the cooling fan. Get the
dust off of all the other components. I managed to keep my old desktop
(the one I use for general internet) in service for a good number of
years that way. It'll save you some money if it works.
Unless you WANT to build a new desktop system.
On 7/15/2014 7:41 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
My desktop started becoming very flaky, which upon testing all my hard
drives I attributed to one of the external drives beginning to fail. No
such luck, apparently the CPU was giving up the ghost. Oh well. I
guess I'll just have to take this as a golden opportunity to build a new
desktop. Meanwhile to have a convenient place to work I've decided to
load an email client on my work laptop. Now I've only got to load the
other tools onto this machine, assuming the connection to the PDML
works.
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