Rebuilding the home PC on a budget
I purchased an Antec TruePower 550 power supply today, but unfortunately that didn't solve the BSOD issue, so it looks like I'll be rebuilding the computer completely. As I've already got a decent server for more serious computing tasks, my aim is to do this as economically as I can. I've come up with the following list:
| CPU | AMD Athlon II x4 635 |
| RAM | 4Gb DDR3 |
| Motherboard | ASUS M4A78LT-M LE |
I'll need to add a video card, as my two existing monitors only have VGA input (eg. the motherboard's DVI-D won't be suitable).
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4 comments:
You appear to be throwing new hardware at a problem that may still be a software problem.
Duncan.
Hi Duncan,
you're probably right. The problem is the hardware is so old the drivers aren't being updated any more.
If I could solve it with software that would be great (especially on the budget!), but I haven't seen any other suggestions about how to solve this particular problem.
-david
A reinstall of the OS?
But.. as you said..if you have the dollars, and the hardware is dated.. why not.. :)
Go with Ubuntu this time around. :-)
Dunc.
Might be worth a shot, though a huge pain to reinstall everything :-( I was thinking if I did go down the 'new hardware' route, I could use sysprep to keep Windows intact but work with the refreshed hardware - at least then theoretically all the apps would be maintained.
To be honest, I'd prefer not to be spending money on this right at the moment!
Ubuntu? I had an opportunity to use this recently at a work client and it looks quite good. Will probably install it in a VM on the Hyper-V server to have more of a play around with it.
Things have come a long way since I used to run a Red Hat server at UniSA many, many years ago. I think that was running Linux kernel version 1.x.
-dave
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