gofar99 Messages: 1949 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
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Hi, It only gets worse... the new board was defective and had to go back. After trying everything (power supplies, drives, etc) the PC kept dying between 3 and 5 hours after being turned on. It was not any sort of obvious heating issue. It would start to slow down then just stop. Diagnostic software that would about half the time load on a DVD indicated that it had "lost" communication with the drive...I used two known good ones so it wasn't a drive issue. So for a while I will have to use the laptop. OK device ,just not as convenient and doesn't have all my files on it.
EDIT: Windows gagged on the install and didn't want to take the registration code. A call to them got a person in the registration section that spoke better English that I do in what ever was his native tongue, but only 1 out of 3 words made sense to me. When he couldn't solve the problem he transferred me to a tech with the same language issue. No success he tried to send me back to the first one...I hung up. Fortunately there is a telephone registration system that has clear voices (automated) and it did get WIN 7 registered, just prior to the PC quitting.
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the new board was defective and had to go back. After trying everything (power supplies, drives, etc) the PC kept dying between 3 and 5 hours after being turned on. It was not any sort of obvious heating issue. It would start to slow down then just stop. Diagnostic software that would about half the time load on a DVD indicated that it had "lost" communication with the drive...I used two known good ones so it wasn't a drive issue. So for a while I will have to use the laptop. OK device ,just not as convenient and doesn't have all my files on it.
