Balcony desktop tower PC upgrade(s) – the CPU swap from E5200 to E7400 which cost $8.60 went well, now it’s time for a SSD so got a Sandisk SSD Plus 240GB from the market today along with SATA and power cables.
Category: Computers
Balcony PC upgrade ?
Mulling over getting a new i7 tower to replace the Balcony PC which is a Scorptec E5200/G31M-SL2/4GB/GT210 about 8 years old. Meanwhile…we could jazz up the current one so ordered a Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8 GHz 3 MB Cache 1066 MHz FSB LGA 775 CPU Processor from a NSW eBay guy for $8.90. If this works out I’ll get a 120/250GB SSD and maybe do another CPU upgrade.
Balcony PC – CPU upgrade
This is a Scorptec box about 7 years old with a E5200 and G31M-S2L motherboard. Purchased a E7400 off eBay for $8.90 free post from NSW – happy with that.
Computers
Mulling over getting a new i7 tower to replace the Balcony PC which is a Scorptec E5200/G31M-SL2/4GB/GT210 about 8 years old. Meanwhile…we could jazz up the current one so ordered a Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8 GHz 3 MB Cache 1066 MHz FSB LGA 775 CPU Processor from a NSW eBay guy for $8.90. If this works out I’ll get a 120/250GB SSD and maybe do another CPU upgrade.
Computers continued
Meanwhile in the workshop we are reviving a couple of Dell towers. One of them is a beautiful (but aging) Precision 670 workstation with dual Xeon processors but only 1GB RAM. Browsing eBay I can get typically get 4GB of ECC for around $40 bucks – might do that.
Upgrade Win7/32 to Win10/64
Can I Upgrade To Windows 10 64-bit From Windows 7/8.1 32-bit
Foxtel Go – working again
Don’t use it much but it’s always worked – until recently.
Above: Script error when I click the login button.
USB 3.0 PCI card
Computer playtime morning – waiting for the USB 3.0 card to arrive (ETA today) so decided to clean up the corner where Balcony PC sits on a cardboard box to the left of the desk – so pulled everything out to vacuum the area. Also took the side panel off the box and gave it a good vac as well, and double check that the sole PCIe x1 slot is vacant – it is. Not long after courier arrived so we installed the card and included drivers – all OK.
Windows 10 upgrades
After upgrading two of my Win 7 Pro desktops about 2 weeks ago found this email in my junk folder. No end to it, this is a new one !
Windows 10 update killed my GPU driver
Checking today’s weather and screen went blank, then spinning circle followed by pop-up that GPU driver failed to start. Win10 is using generic – check for updates. Ran the Nvidia updater which offered to install the latest driver which is the same version as the one installed – that was replaced with a generic by Windows update !!!
