I often wonder why folks will abandon a perfectly good working system
just to
have the "latest and greatest". Just look at all the pain you go
through and then
ask yourself what the benefits are.
As for me, I picked up a Shuttle machine with WIN8.1 and 16 GB of RAM.
It sits
on the test bench awaiting the day my old XP Station machine finally
dies. Not
until then will I embark on the self-torture of updating.
73, Dick, W1KSZ
On 11/19/2014 7:39 AM, brian wrote:
You often see postings here advocating abandoning XP in favor of newer
OS's. Yeah sounds great, but the devil is in the details.
I just finished a port to a faster refurbed multicore WIN7 machine.
The task involved:
1)50 programs and data
2) 3 sound cards (4 if you include the video)
3) eight USB ports of stuff
4) five RS232 ports of stuff
5) one lpt port
6) Networking with XP computers
7) Internet
I started October 23. Finally I have 98% of what I had working under
XP. It took an estimated 80 hours of work and cost in excess of
$500. Admittedly, I'm on the low knowledge end of OS stuff (and maybe
in the majority of ham users in that regard).
The most difficult parts were:
1) Device drivers. Trial and error process.
2) Sound card problems. It's a zoo.
3) Networking (it takes 15 at first unknown steps in several pull
down boxes to do what a single click in XP used to do)
I still have one unresolved issue with the motherboard sound. It
simply won't output anything via line out. I'm almost convinced that
the sound out hardware is bad. It's quite possible on the refurbed
machine that the previous owner clobbered the hardware. WIN7 seems a
bit flaky in sound card stuff.
It isn't a trivial process unless you're just interested in E-mail,
Internet browsing and a few spreadsheet programs.
Thank goodness WIN7 isn't bleeding edge. I can't imagine doing this
for a newly released OS. GOOGLE is your friend in the process.
73 de Brian/K3KO
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