DSLRplans postponed

[PeterW]

Hi,

My plans to get a DSLR have had to take a back seat. My computer decided to toes-up with a troublesome motherboard. First it lost the sound, and a substitute sound card wouldn't bring it back. Then it started to go alternately fast and slow.

John ran some diagnostic sotware and pronounced it was on its way out. Rather than mess about replacing the motherboard and chip, and possibly something else that had caused it, I decided it was better to go for a new computer.

John still has his trade connections and accounts, and he got me one trade price with a 3.3gHz Pentium 4 chip, 160Gb hard drive for files and a second 80Gb hard drive for applications, DVD and CD reader/writer, four different size card readers and extra USB ports on the front, and all mod cons.

It arrived today, and John spent the afternoon setting it up and transferring all my programs and files from the old hard drives to the new ones.

It came with Vista installed, and so far it seems to be fine, if a little unfamiliar in layout from XP, and runs all my applications OK. I shall give it a fair trial and if I like it I'll leave it on there. If I don't, I'll uninstall it and put XP on.

Tomorrow I've got to download Vista drivers for my two printers and the scanner from Epson and HP.

Then I've got to start saving up all over again for a DSLR .

PeterW

[Randy]

Glad you are still here...too bad about the DSLR. I heard you folks over there have some flooding going on...hope you are high and dry.

[vintageslrs]

Peter

Seems like it must be the time for computers to give up the ghost.....I hope to be up and running as normal by the end of the week, with a little luck.
Peter, that sounds like a whale of a computer.....best of luck...enjoy!

Bob

[casualcollector]

Mine just went a bit wonky on me. Had to reboot several times! Old age may be getting to it. I bought it in 2001. One hard drive and one power supply replaced since new. Still on Windows 98!

Bill

[kiev4a]

I built this computer about three years ago--1.8 gigahertz Athlon with 1.5 gigs memory. Started with an 80 gig drive and since have added another 80, a 120 gig and most recently a 250 gig external. Have lots of space but I keep duplicate copies of data and photos on two different drives. Recently I added a 256 meg video board and a Litescribe DVD burner (can't afford the disks for it yet. So far it seems as fast as I need and I have a spare motherboard stashed in the closet. I've got the whole setup in a 40 lb. server tower. My daughter, who works for HP, can't believe I would have something that huge but it runs nice and cool. A laptop would take a lot less room but if something goes wrong with it the entire machine is out of commission..
I won't leave Windows XP Pro until MS quits supporting it. My machine is super stable and if it ain't broke I won't fix it.