[H] Wondering?
Does Win7 and/or Win8.1 still see/acknowledge the old 36-pin ATA/PATA (ESDI) connectors on an old m/b? I am trying to help my Older Brother (OB) get modern. SATA is a foreign term to him. He has read it, but that is about all. His m/b (Gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2Gis OLD! Fine. But it does have 4 SATA connectors (0-4) so I'm thinking he MAY be able to do an SSD - even in IDE-mode. His current BIOS is 'F4' which may be pretty weak(?) The User Manual never mentions AHCI, and, any discussion about SATA seems to focus on RAID. Suspect this m/b may have been a 'gamer's' m/b back when RAID was the 'bee's knees.' Whatever, past history. His cpu is an AMD Athlon 64 3500. He has 2GB of RAM. Yes, I know 4GB is the current minimum. I am trying to avoid a 1200 road trip to his home to do surgery on his old PC! OB sees himself as a sorta expert, believes he can do anything, does not understand why I ask so many questions. Internal PC BS is a take it to the shop' kind of deal. Problem is, he recently relocated and does not have a new 'take-it-to' option' so I am his only path forward. Thanks, Duncan
[H] Bioshock ultimate
Brian...weren't you playing Bioshock Infinite? What is the deal with the things that appear to be in other dimensions.. like weapons and medkits that glimmer and you can walk though and now I came across a gate lock like this... how are you suppose to activate them?
Re: [H] Wondering?
I think Win7 does as I have installed it on an old laptop that was pre-sata. His mobo may have old-gen sata, which will be very slow for an SSD, but might still work. Easier to just try it and see. On 6/18/2014 3:54 PM, DSinc wrote: Does Win7 and/or Win8.1 still see/acknowledge the old 36-pin ATA/PATA (ESDI) connectors on an old m/b? I am trying to help my Older Brother (OB) get modern. SATA is a foreign term to him. He has read it, but that is about all. His m/b (Gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2Gis OLD! Fine. But it does have 4 SATA connectors (0-4) so I'm thinking he MAY be able to do an SSD - even in IDE-mode. His current BIOS is 'F4' which may be pretty weak(?) The User Manual never mentions AHCI, and, any discussion about SATA seems to focus on RAID. Suspect this m/b may have been a 'gamer's' m/b back when RAID was the 'bee's knees.' Whatever, past history. His cpu is an AMD Athlon 64 3500. He has 2GB of RAM. Yes, I know 4GB is the current minimum. I am trying to avoid a 1200 road trip to his home to do surgery on his old PC! OB sees himself as a sorta expert, believes he can do anything, does not understand why I ask so many questions. Internal PC BS is a take it to the shop' kind of deal. Problem is, he recently relocated and does not have a new 'take-it-to' option' so I am his only path forward. Thanks, Duncan
Re: [H] Bioshock ultimate
Never mind... I finally figured out that you have to hold down the F key like when swapping a weapon. At 03:01 PM 6/18/2014, you wrote: Brian...weren't you playing Bioshock Infinite? What is the deal with the things that appear to be in other dimensions.. like weapons and medkits that glimmer and you can walk though and now I came across a gate lock like this... how are you suppose to activate them?
Re: [H] Bioshock ultimate
Ok, good. It's been long enough since I've played that I don't really recall myself :) - Brian On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org wrote: Never mind... I finally figured out that you have to hold down the F key like when swapping a weapon. At 03:01 PM 6/18/2014, you wrote: Brian...weren't you playing Bioshock Infinite? What is the deal with the things that appear to be in other dimensions.. like weapons and medkits that glimmer and you can walk though and now I came across a gate lock like this... how are you suppose to activate them?
