Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I finally had mine rebuilt in December at a computer shop here.? The SSD's, hard drives and graphics card? were good, so i got a new case, power supply, motherboard, AMD processor and 32gb of ram. About $1,000 including labor and seems to work fine.? Everything I replaced was at least 10 years old. Ken On 6/28/2021 6:04 AM, Douglas Barry wrote: > Thanks Jayanand. That's a salutary warning to all of us Windozers not > to rush into this. > > I'm quite frankly very dubious about W11, as the MS lurch into the > Orwellian BB culture evidenced by the prying W10 has turned me against > MS. I'm not quite ready for Chinese state style hyper-surveillance. > > That said, I'll probably have to bow to the inevitable and upgrade my > Sony in the next two years. This will probably require an upgrade from > my six year old Dell Inspiron 3847 and its 1gb NVIDIA GeForce GT 705 > graphics card. As it is a tower pc, I had thought of just upgrading > the graphics card and ram which is an easy do, but the motherboard and > other innards will probably will let me down in the near future. > > To anyone else out there in a similar dilemma, what have you opted for? > > Douglas > > > On 28/06/2021 10:29, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: >> Make sure you meet all the conditions, and approach Secure Boot with >> some >> trepidation. I just decided to get my computer ready for Windows 11, and >> enabled Secure Boot on my PC, and it would not even boot into BIOS again >> after that. I have just wasted half a day debugging that, gaining >> access to >> BIOS again, and turning the Secure Boot setting off? to get the computer >> working again! The culprit was my Asus/Nvidia Graphics Card which >> seems to >> be not compliant - it is a bit long in the tooth as GPUs go, but is >> working >> very well, so I have to figure out whether an upgrade lies in my >> future or >> not! I will probably just postpone migrating to Windows 11 for the time >> being - as of now there does not seem to be any compelling reason to >> do so, >> other than it is free! >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 6:09 AM Ken Carney via LUG <lug at >> leica-users.org> >> wrote: >> >>> OK, we are both ready to upgrade to Windows 11 for a ?calm and creative >>> experience?. Per Microsoft. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Jun 26, 2021, at 6:04 PM, Sonny Carter via LUG >>>> <lug at leica-users.org> >>> wrote: >>>> ?Yes, Ken, >>>> >>>> Sharpen was running really slowly on my 2 gb video card. I contacted >>> their >>>> support with a list of my home-built computer innards, and they >>>> suggested >>>> an 8 gig card.? It runs great now. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Sonny >>>> http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/> >>>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information