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
