Mark,
Never mind the suggestion for the customized desktops.
I just looked at those, and, unless you are interested in a customized
Mac, they only offer "all-in-one" Windows desktops, which porobably
doesn't make much sense for you.
Oh, yes, - I forgot. If you are considering to build a desktop from parts,
- I'd recommend looking at http://www.tomshardware.com/
They aren't as good as they used to be (too much noise and paid
advertisement "pseudo-articles"). But you want to look here:
Next to "Latest ARticles" click on "Build You Own".
Then you'll see a "band" of links "Best PC Builds" and "System Builder
MArathon for Qx 201y" - for the particular quarter of the year, - at
different levels of price range and purpose.
Those would give you an idea of a peformance/price combination that you
can expect, and also what components you might want.
HTH,
Igor
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
...
I haven't used them for desktops, but had bought 1 or 2 customized laptops
from this shop:
http://www.portableone.com/Custom-Desktops
(And I had my laptop fixed couple of times while they were still doing
warranty repairs, which they stopped a few years back.)
They offer customized desktops. You can look at those.
They don't built computers from parts, but they customize the quality
off-the-shelf computer.
You don't pay too much overhead for the customization, but you avoid the
headaches and get some assurance that things will be tested to work together.
HTH.
Good luck!
Igor
Mark C Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:53:37 -0700 wrote:
Thanks Igor -
I don't know what to look for in event viewer... I read through all the logs
but the only entries that repeat over and over are ones that indicate a
normal state. The whole "Application and Services Logs" section is blank -
nothing in there, including the Hardware section (where I expected there
would be something.) Does that mean that it is not turned on?
I did try a system restore but before this happened the machine downloaded
and installed 30 some updates and created 5 restore points - at least. So the
best I could do was restore it to a state a few hours earlier. Not sure why I
have so few restore pints... but with the beeping upon power up, before
windows loads, I assume this is a hardware issue and not a windows issue
anyhow.
Mark
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