Re: [H] OB's old PC has died
Paid neither of them zip. OB owns two mature male long-haired black cats. He is quite used to super-sucking cat hair out of odd places. He build a special attachment with a collar and a clip to use when he 'pm's' his PC about yearly. Duncan On 07/01/2014 21:55, FORC5 wrote: how much did you pay the cat 8-) fp At 05:10 PM 7/1/2014, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: Duncan, Given that you are called upon to support this old rig, it seems to me that congratulations are in order... -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 12:02 PM To: HWG Subject: [H] OB's old PC has died 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 Date: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 ***Caution Tagline Below*** **Tallyho** *** I eat Swiss cheese from the inside out. ***
Re: [H] OB's old PC has died
Greg, Well, congrats accepted, but I can not help wonder for WHAT? Trying to keep his old PC running, or, perhaps helping it die? LOL! Duncan On 07/01/2014 20:10, Greg Sevart wrote: Duncan, Given that you are called upon to support this old rig, it seems to me that congratulations are in order... -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 12:02 PM To: HWG Subject: [H] OB's old PC has died 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
[H] Seeking opinions?
OB has been studying Dell for a replacement desktop PC. He seems stuck at an Inspiron 8700 for $700. OK, I turned him on to Dell(but I was thinking Opti-Plex of old!) Seeking opinions about Inspiron line and Opti-Plex line. It has been 15 yrs since I played with my old Opti-Plex at Xerox before they laid me off. My opinion was that the PC was quite good given its' proprietary Dell m/b. Sure kept me out of the case LOL! No. I did not share that Dell will load up a sequestered area of his 1TB em HD with Dell stuff. Shame on me! Duncan
Re: [H] Seeking opinions?
At 02:45 PM 02/07/2014, DSinc wrote: OB has been studying Dell for a replacement desktop PC. He seems stuck at an Inspiron 8700 for $700. OK, I turned him on to Dell(but I was thinking Opti-Plex of old!) Seeking opinions about Inspiron line and Opti-Plex line. It has been 15 yrs since I played with my old Opti-Plex at Xerox before they laid me off. My opinion was that the PC was quite good given its' proprietary Dell m/b. Sure kept me out of the case LOL! No. I did not share that Dell will load up a sequestered area of his 1TB em HD with Dell stuff. Shame on me! The mini-cases (for any manufacturer) are complete crap. A decent mini to mid size tower is ok. Not a fan of Dell (except for the fact the low build quality keeps me busy), but I guess if you don't know a decent small shop in the area it might be the only choice. T
Re: [H] Z97 chipset Driver -- The Story So Far -- Complete!
The upgrade is complete and the immediate effect is that Windows Explorer seems a lot quicker. The Hero VII is an odd-looking board, they run a bunch of LEDs off the +5VSB so that the board glows red even when off. Using the included fan/heatsink, the processor is running cool. I stuck the 6850 back into this system and have not yet tried to install the GTX750. The 750 can handle 3 monitors and that's something I'd like to do, but I don't have room on the desk yet for 3 monitors. Abnormalities: With all my USB devices plugged in (Printer, Scanner, APC, two external drives, two midi keyboards, mouse and keyboad, the boot-up is slow. There is a 15 second black screen between POST and Windows loading. Right now I would not recommend the Nanoface midi/audio interface. I've finally gotten it working with no crackling, but you have to be darned careful. There is a firmware upgrade, but you have to install the drivers with the device not hooked up, then hook it up later. I'm going to stress test the interface by running a team deathmatch in UT2004. The to-do list includes looking at the slow boot, making sure all old drivers are removed. On 7/1/2014 5:37 PM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 05:58 PM 01/07/2014, Steve Tomporowski wrote: Can SFC detect whether the correct driver is installed? As for the system drivers in the Intel exe, it looks like it generates a .inf on the fly. The .inf files it generated on the netbook were filled with 'no driver'. I tried that anyways, it said installed but didn't change the situation. Since I can prep this drive beforehand, will deleting the HD controller drivers make windows reload the generic drivers? Or maybe I can get away with doing a sysprep? Never did sysprep before Not sure if SFC can fix a driver. Can you use this remove the drivers: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/device_manager_view.html T
