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Thread ID: 146574	2018-09-15 20:52:00	Revived PC	piroska (17583)	PC World Chat

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1453600	2018-09-15 20:52:00	Friend with 13 yr old PC, been telling her to back it up for the last 8 years.She didn't. Long story, it was unstable in the first place and since.... So the hard drive died. And the GPU. I was worried motherboard might have been the issue but so far it's still going. She of course didn't have a windows CD (or COA), any of her software CDs, no image, no backups except some music and such on a portable drive. And no money. So I found her a refurbished drive, a reasonable but used GPU (not gaming) and put Linux Mint on it. She was surprised to find she A)Liked it B)Found it very easy to use Even her Epson printer/scanner which I have found can be a problem was OK. The Epson scanner driver/sw didn't work (no surprise) but the built in Linux Simple Scan did. So she then went to put her music back and oh dear, the portable drive is dead too. Deceased, f***d, munted, totalled. As I told her partner - about to start a new business - back up on TWO separate devices always. Found her another portable now too....LOL. That was 1/2 my day yesterday.....	piroska (17583)
1453601	2018-09-15 21:43:00	Yes nothing wrong with Linux Mint, I have used it quite a bit before but not currently. I choose to run Windows at the moment because some programs I use don't have a Linux alternative. I like Linux, I also like Windows both have their place but at the end of the day whichever you use still needs to be backed up	gary67 (56)
1453602	2018-10-16 19:58:00	She is lucky to have a friend like you. PJ	Poppa John (284)
1453603	2018-10-17 09:31:00	I shot 3 years on multiple windows, dual boot with ubuntu, mandriva, suse gentoo .. This is the only bone that decided me to remove windows and ubuntu. This system bluffed me! Quite simply. __________________________________________________ ____________________________ Mini Militia (www.minimilitia.mobi/) App Lock (https:) 7Zip (https://www.7zip.vip/) That can happen. Especially if your luck is on the tough side, or you foolishly eat Marmite instead of Vegemite.	R2x1 (4628)
1453604	2018-10-17 17:57:00	Lol.	zqwerty (97)
1453605	2018-10-17 19:55:00	She is lucky to have a friend like you. PJ yep I tend to avoid looking at neighbors, relatives & friends PC's. The quick look quickly escalates into a 1/2 job .... I only get 2 days a week off & have other things I need to do :)	1101 (13337)
1453606	2018-10-17 22:50:00	It's also the reason I prefer not to sell my old PCs to people I know, you become IT support forever. Sometimes I give away old hardware, generally with the condition that I never see it again. Not that I'm able to enforce that in a lot of cases. Do you find working on these old machines that you had forgotten some of the joy (sarcasm) of working with IDE cables, single core CPUs, tiny amounts of RAM, motherboard configuration links, etc? I don't miss the days of manually configuring clock speeds and voltages with a whole lot of links and instructions seemingly designed to make it difficult to follow, at least you don't run into that any more. Maybe somewhere one of those is still working but they have to be rare. Some of these old machines are also truly disusting inside, clogged up with so much dust and pet hair and who knows what that it's a miracle they didn't die years ago.	dugimodo (138)
1453607	2018-10-18 00:56:00	Some of these old machines are also truly disusting inside, clogged up with so much dust while trying not to think about house dust being mostly old skin..... :eek: I Dont see mice & rat poop in PC's anymore . Not sure why , perhaps they prefer Apple .	1101 (13337)
1453608	2018-10-18 02:37:00	Do you find working on these old machines that you had forgotten some of the joy (sarcasm) of working with IDE cables, single core CPUs, tiny amounts of RAM, motherboard configuration links, etc? I don't miss the days of manually configuring clock speeds and voltages . Haven't worked on anything that old in ages. But I never minded that...I quite liked setting jumpers etc. last ancient thing I did was a while back, an old Xenix machine with a dead MB. The board had the old CD connected to sound card arrangement and scsi drives.... Lucky for him, a friend of mine (a PC wreckers at the time, literally, he used to trawl through bins), had such an animal still.	piroska (17583)
1453609	2018-10-18 11:03:00	Im fixing up an old potato at the moment Previously a Core DUO E6420 at 2.1ghz 3GB ram (Win XP) , its now running a E8400 @ 3.8 GHZ still on stock cooler. It boots fine all the way to 4.2 GHZ however the DDR 2-800 ram seems to be the limit. Running at 430 FSBx9 gives 860 MHZ on the ram (2x512mb crucial @5-5-5-18 sticker on ram says 5-5-5-12 gaming ram hmm?) testing failed with an error in prime95 after some 12 hours. I will swap the ram out and try it on the other original stick (a 2GB crucial @ 5-5-5-18 also) The other tweak i did was the graphics card a radeon 6670 (800 mhz on gpu core original - now @880) (memory 800mhz @ stock now maxed out, in amd overdrive at 960) funny thing if I run Sapphire TriXX the memory will easily go to 1070 mhz. Just the amd official driver holds it back with its built in limit Net result @ 3.8 ghz ONLY from the graphics card overclock in Unigine Heaven. I went from a score of 218 to 318.	apsattv (7406)
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