'PUTER PROBLEMS

Robin Ellis · Post by **Robin Ellis** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:20 pm

Hi all, I am having some trouble with my ancient 'puter, and therefore will be offline for how long I don't know. Please feel free to phone me at home anytime:020 8524 5449 ROBIN.

Allan Richards · Post by **Allan Richards** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:29 am

I know the problems Robin. My old computer died over Christmas. I bought a new one and stayed with Xp. From what I've heard of Vista I don't want to go there just yet.

Tim McCarthy · Post by **Tim McCarthy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:41 pm

G'day Robin
I also know the feeling as when I got back to work my motherboard fryed when booting up.
Be carefull going to Vista as we did at home and had to get new printer and modem as they would not work with Vista.
Computers when they are good they are good but when they play up they are very bad.
Tim

Jeffrey Goff · Post by **Jeffrey Goff** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:16 am

Hi Robin, there are some fantastic buys on the market for computers, dont buy one off the shelf, get one of the many companies to build you one,
I did this just before Christmas:-
Quad core Phenom 9600
500 GB H/D
4 G/B ram
nVidia 8800GTX
Vista Ultimate 64
+ all the extras all for less than Â£900,
Vista has preformed flawless, with it not only loading older hardware but finding drivers for it, the computer it has replaced cost me Â£2500 3 years ago, and was running in XP pro, to compare the two is like a Heng Long Tiger against an Armortek

regards
Jeff

Robert Bruce · Post by **Robert Bruce** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:23 pm

Why get somebody else to build it if you are capable of building any one of these models you are more than able to assemble a PC

Allan Richards · Post by **Allan Richards** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:18 pm

Robert,

My son is building a computer as a project in college. The cost of the parts is almost as much as having the thing built.

My new machine is nowhere near the spec of Jeff's new toy but I only use the thing for the internet, e-mails and simple word procesing etc and it cost me just under Â£400. This said its still miles higher spec than the old one which cost me Â£1200 in 1999

Robert Bruce · Post by **Robert Bruce** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:40 pm

Cool Allan great project, I build a 4 bit computer and a OS for my course project, it used to be in the college museum, great project took me my 2nd year, I found the board etching the worse part, design was fun though mind you I don't think I could do it again all that interesting stuff fell out of the old gray matter some years ago

Good luck with it

Joe Boylan · Post by **Joe Boylan** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:44 pm

Hi Robin - Make it easy on yourself - I switched to MAC last year and love it - won't ever go back to PC. Worth every penny! A-little learning curve but even a modeler can do it! - JOE

Martin Cohen · Post by **Martin Cohen** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:29 am

I did not wish to appear to be sounding like the arrogant Mac in the Apple 'Mac vs PC' television commercials, so I am glad a fellow Mac user chimed in. After all, those appreciate the finest in reliable and state of the art tech should consider the Apple Macintosh (I also run XP Pro on mine for games).

Now back to my slide rule calculator to manually figure out my 2007 taxes.

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:17 am

MAC or PC?

Tim

Robin Ellis · Post by **Robin Ellis** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:28 pm

Well as you can see I have sorted out the problem, which turned out to be a dead mouse, probably due to to much use!!

Derek Attree · Post by **Derek Attree** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:31 pm

Welcome back Robin

Derek

Allan Richards · Post by **Allan Richards** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:38 pm

At least that was cheap to fix.