On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an acer laptop and a desktop here that both said no to video drivers. > Desktop easy, get a new video card. Not so easy with the laptop. However > removing the drivers put the laptop on windows drivers and they updated ok. > What will stop you is the processor. It needs to be minimum P4 D (intel > wise) and I have a machine with a processor prior to that. I could upgrade > the processor but that means motherboard as well. Plus I still dont know if > the video card will work. All in all not worth the bother for an old > desktop. Plus some things stopped working with 8, like bluesky's html help. > Not tried with 10 yet.
Pretty much my situation, too: Dell Optiplex 745, Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz, 2 Gb RAM, 75 Gb hdd, ATI X1300 Pro card. I'd pretty much want to drop $80 for 8 Gb RAM, a 1 TB hdd for $50 or so, and $35 for a cheap workable XGA card for $165 total. And then, of course, I'd have to deal with Windows activation, since changing that many parts obviously means I'm some sort of criminal trying to hack my way to a free Windows license, grrr. This weekend's NewEgg special was a 3 GHz Dell Optiplex 755, 8 Gb, 1 Tb hdd, for $129. Just doesn't make economic sense. Of course, that's trading an old machine you know works for an old machine that might not. Too marginal there, I'd like move up a model number or three. > So don't give up just yet on the PC, it could be as simple as removing the > drivers. One note though, the check seems to be a monthly thing. So even > changing the drivers or card will not show up. In that case use the media > tool. It will download and install windows 10. Don't do ISO, my sister did > and it said her windows ID was wrong. At a minimum, RAM needs to be boosted. 2Gb was fine when I just needed to run a thing or two on Win7, but as the project expands, the resource demands do, too. NewEgg sent along a coupon for memory this AM so I may just do that, and leave WIndows 10 for the next machine. I have one Wind-X box for testing and will likely retire this old one at Win8.1. It's likely my next purchase will be a fairly beefy desktop so I can run Linux as host and a couple of Win boxes as VMs when needed. A couple of quad-cores and 32 Gb of memory ought do to it, don't you think? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4tm2hrvdebuyoesod9v1xbph8hmmujcdbq9j9whjuw...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
