Re: Guage
- From: Christopher A.Lee <calee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:52:43 -0500
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:47:44 -0000, "kim" <ntscuser@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Paul Boyd wrote:
On 20/01/2008 15:22, kim said,
Having done it myself quite recently and understanding some of the
pifalls, is there a particular reason you want to build your own PC?
Because I always have done :-) Actually, it's more like a sort of
continual upgrade - this time round it's a change of motherboard,
processor, memory and graphics which by my reckoning makes it "new". I
already have a good case, PSU and SATA drives, so don't need to
replace those. The only pitfall I've ever come across is having to
phone Microsoft to activate XP when it decides I must be trying to
pirate it because it's on a new mobo.
That's why I downloaded the "4XP" hack. It was far less hassle than
balancing an old system case on my lap while trying to read the serial
number on the back to a man in India while I typed a new number into the
keyboard which turned out not to be the activation key anyway.
On a previous machine the "install disk" was a legal image from the
supplier (IBM), not a standard install. But when I upgraded to XP I
converted from FAT32 to NTFS.
I got a particularly nasty infection via of all things a McAfee
update. This overwrote part of TCP and removing it left a blind branch
to nowhere so attempts to go on line crashed.
The backup was also infected.
So I tried to reinstall XP. And got a system crash part way through.
After which it decided that I needed a full price install rather than
the upgrade.
The Indian call centre told me to reinstall from the manufacturer's
image. Which would have lost all my data. Eventually they realised
this but still couldn't help me.
They wouldn't give me a key to let me use the upgrade disk and told me
I had to either buy a full price disk or borrow one.
Eventually I found a friend with a pukka Win98 disk so I reinstalled
that and then ran the XP upgrade.
And as soon as McAfee started up again the infection was still there
so I went through the process again.
This time I ran an evaluation copy of an antivirus before and after
each of the programs came up. That's how I found it was McAfee doing
it.
So I deinstalled McAfee, went through the process yet again and
switched to one of the other security packages.
The whole thing sucks.
To be honest, even if I wanted a complete second PC I would probably
still build it because I can, and I also get exactly what I need.
That's true but as you know 'quality' components are very expensive and even
cheap ones work out far more expensive than buying a complete unit. I'd do
it again but only for pleasure. If it was for business I'd just buy a well
known corporate brand and have done with it.
A decent home PC should have at least two disks. Not partitions.
Install the OS on one, applications and data on the other. Backups can
be via a USB attached disk that doesn't have to be particularly fast.
But you can't buy machines off the shelf like this.
(kim).
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