Bruce,Thanks for your comments and it great to know of the great experience you have accumulated learning about the ins and outs of computer operation.
I would love to build my new system like you have done, but.......when I read about this mother board not connection to this..., and be sure to get this type of ... or it wont work with... it reminds me of how my luck normally goes, " If in can go wrong it will!" It sounds like you have a little bit on the same luck I have, but have the knowledge to work around it!
I have installed ram, a new power supply, an internal and external HDD, and a CD Rom 2 or 3 times. But when I installed the first HDD and a replaced my Super disk had a real time because of not knowing about the jumpers, the primary and secondary designation and the like. luckily I finally got it right.
Your episode with eMachines sounds like what happened to me with my very first computer when I knew nothing about computers, (Before the I found the TTT and learned something!) and after a year of working with tech service they finally said the entire computer was junk all along and finally replaced it. It made me very apprehensive about the dependability of computer is general.
And the learning keeps going on and on...for example, when you speak of these I am not sure what it meas:
"DriveSpaced to look like a giant 30 meg drive?'" "I could actually sys the driveBruce"So I had tentatively decided to purchase at least the main desktop computer in a stare that it would be ready and I could add or replace other items as needed. That way if I did happen to get a unit that wouldn't work right I could hopefully get a replacement.
Howard, maybe with your day in and day out working with old and new systems you could give us some of you wisdom about this matter.
BRIAN ************** Eddy wrote: Hi Brian,
VIEW ARCHIVES @ //www.freelists.orgI haven't ever owned only 1 prebuilt system in my life?:)) I've built every system I've owned except the 1st one...That was an oooooold IBM case with a 286/12 CPU, a half meg of ram and a half meg video card. Also had a 20 meg hard drive, DriveSpaced to look like a giant 30 meg drive?:))) Running windows3.1.....It was given to me by one of my kids' boyfriend at the time.. Within the 2nd week I wound up messing it up completely....formatted the drive...that's when I found out the true meaning of the term 'upgrade=version?:))) Dos 6.22 wouldn't install because it was an upgrade ...Took me 2 nights to figure out if I bypassed the install and got to a dos prompt in the setup, I could actually sys the drive...THEN it would install just fine...That's pretty much got me hooked on the internal workings of PCs and Windows in general.. Anywho.. As for systems I'd recommend..I won't really recommend anything...there's good And bad in every brand you get. Sometimes it's the system, sometimes it's the user...sometimes it's a combination of both... My daughter's father in law. Had an emachine.. ran it for several years worked extremely well. One of my clients also had a much newer Emachine that didn't work so swell...to the point we sent it back because the HD kept losing data..not just bits and pieces the whole drive would wipe out. Sent it back to Emachines...they sent it back to me.. I did 1 boot up.. installed some windows updates.. on the 2nd boot up.. 'No operating system found' error?:))) I had to do clean install all over again. ..3 months later it happened to the guy again. This time, he bought an HP or whatever it was and gave me the dead system...I played with it, finally found out the SATA drive cable to the mother board was funky. It's one of those cables with the clip on the end instead of just the normal push-type. I flipped it around so the lip end was on the motherboard. Ran that for 2 months with no issues at all. Sold it for $150 after telling the new owner what the original issue was. That was over 3 years ago? The point is, the original owner now thinks eMachine is a terrible system. The new owner now thinks eMachines are super?:))) As for Win7, I'm not real sold on some of the layout changes, like the way they now do the Quick Launch.....doesn't mean it's bad, it's just a matter of getting used to it. Some of the hardest 'selling' points of vista/win7 is they made XP too good and it's been running too long. XP people looking foradd/remove programs will be scratching their heads a lot. For me it still boils down to no compelling reason to upgrade. Aside from itruns better and maybe some security side issues. I'll have 2 laptops and 2 systems here running win 7 . but if I had to pay full prices for those upgrades odds are hi I'd only have 2 of them running. Oh yeah, as for buying local or online... that's a toughie. One of my clients bought an HP laptop online thru eBay, runs real strong runs great good deal...He had one issue on OOBE when he 1st got it, called the eBay store owner and got a quick work around. No problems since. That was about 4 or 5 months ago. Me, I bought an Acer low power laptop from Wal-Mart early this spring also with no issues at all. A couple months after that I sold that laptop to my daughter and bought a Toshiba higher powered laptop from Bestbuy. Within the 1st week it froze up completely 4 times. I did a recovery back to day 1..then it happened again in the 2nd week and I took it back and got a replacement instantly. That system hasn't had any issues at all ....so far. You make the call on that one.:))))) HTH Bruce -----Original Message----- From: triadtechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:triadtechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of brian Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:27 PM To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [triadtechtalk] New Computer/ Win7 Upgrage Bruce, Ok, thanks for checking in; glad you are still out there and can offer a helping hand. I remember you were one of the group who switched to Vista and made it work. That experience should help other who have problems with Win7. The first thing I would like to get some feed back on, is the pros and cons of buying a local computer or on off the internet. What have been your experiences? What are your recommendations? If I get one local it would sure help is I have trouble with it, but it seems that with an on line purchase a person can get the items that one really wants in the computer. What have you done in the past and how has it worked out? 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