From: Champ on
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:26:10 +0000 (UTC), "SIRPip"
<gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Champ wrote:
>
>> There is another factor - I'm a cheapskate too. The machine whirring
>> away under my desk owes me about 200 quid.

>This seems a suitable point to acknowledge your stepping aside from the
>machine I'm using, which with the addition of a suitable graphics card
>and couple of HDDs is providing sterling service still. And it is
>still enormously quieter than the barn-sized thing it replaced, for
>which Elly is suitably grateful, on a regular basis ;-)

Hey, when do I see some of that gratitude? :-)
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Champ
We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.
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From: SIRPip on
Champ wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:26:10 +0000 (UTC), "SIRPip"
> <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Champ wrote:
> >
> >> There is another factor - I'm a cheapskate too. The machine
> whirring >> away under my desk owes me about 200 quid.
>
> > This seems a suitable point to acknowledge your stepping aside from
> > the machine I'm using, which with the addition of a suitable
> > graphics card and couple of HDDs is providing sterling service
> > still. And it is still enormously quieter than the barn-sized
> > thing it replaced, for which Elly is suitably grateful, on a
> > regular basis ;-)
>
> Hey, when do I see some of that gratitude? :-)

All in good time son, all in good time. There's none spare atm.

--
SIRPip : B12
From: Salad Dodger on
Salad Dodger wrote:

> Worth a whole new PC, or a bit of jiggery-pokery inside? New mobo?
> More RAM

Well, I got new mobo, more, better, RAM, and a new heatsink/fan.

Plonked it all in, wired it up, and Win7 refuses to load. It does its
little diagnostics nonsense for ages, then says it has no solutions.

BIOS wilfully ignores CD/DVD drive, too.

Does it matter which SATA channel drives are plugged into?
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SD on the laptop.
From: Salad Dodger on
On 3 Aug 2010 21:04:31 GMT, "Salad Dodger" <salad.dodger(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Salad Dodger wrote:
>
>> Worth a whole new PC, or a bit of jiggery-pokery inside? New mobo?
>> More RAM
>
>Well, I got new mobo, more, better, RAM, and a new heatsink/fan.
>
>Plonked it all in, wired it up, and Win7 refuses to load. It does its
>little diagnostics nonsense for ages, then says it has no solutions.
>
>BIOS wilfully ignores CD/DVD drive, too.

Found it now. Offers to reinstall Win7.

I shall move everything important to somewhere else first.
>
>Does it matter which SATA channel drives are plugged into?

Thank goodness for system restore. All back as was.

Will have another fiddle at the weekend.