Dell UPGRADE
Good luck, Dell does not play well with others. Don't get me wrong I'm no guru by any means, BUT, out of absolute necesity I just built a new high end pc for my business. We have a dell 4600 dimesion at one of our motels, and I tried for months to get it to run, with no luck. first of all the problem was that some employees were surfing in places they shouldn't and got it bombarded with every virus and trojan known to man (exag).
Tried to wipe and reload with no luck at all, finally found a tech here in East Texas, (And my friends theres not many if any others)
who took it to his shop and it took him 3 months to get it up and kicking, all because I wanted some upgrades done. So needless to say its back on line... slow and ridiculous as ever. The necessity part of the story is this, there was one other tech place of any reputation at all that I used for 18 mos after moving here, and after having all three company computers hacked , used as zombies, and a free server for stolen internet I found out it was the damned people who repaired it every 30-45 days that were crashing it, and this was on a system that they built for me, needless to say I dropped em real quick, and found the other tech, (who got out of the business last Aug. [GREATnow what])
But before he closed his shop he wiped and reloaded our three business machines, when he called because one of the XP pro tags had come off of one box, I gave him the product code which I always write down in at least 3 places, and it didnt work, tried over and over, no luck, so I called the old techs, and finally got a call back from the owner after 4 days, he told me "well we did you a favor and ran a pirate copy to save you money", yeah right,
so I bought 3 XP Pro's had them installed, and turned their but in to Microsoft, At that point I knew little more than how to turn on the pc and do very basic maintenance. I started in Oct, and mid
Jan finished my first build, and like I said , it IS NICE, A8N32-SLI deluxe board, AMD 4800 dual core x64, 4 GB Corsair memory, Thermaltake Shark case, dual EVGA 6800GS video cards, Soundblaster X-FI platinum , running Windows XP pro x64. Friend take my advice, BUILD YOUR OWN! the only tutorage I had was through great people like the ones that contribute to this and other reputable forums, 3 or 4 books on various pc technology, and a little determination, And oh I forgot, had double pneumonia, and congestive heart failure during this, so it took a little longer that expected. Like I said before I am no guru at all, I'm 48 years old, and was wondering if I was doing the right thing, and the answer was YES, it started on the very first try , and somehow (and Im still not sure how) even the 1 TB raid config was dead on the money. Just be patient, check the different supplier sites for deals, c heck this and other forums, do a little reading, and you can have 3 times the pc you would have had buying from the mass production greed meisters. And a sense of pride and accomplishment you wouldn't believe, maybe I just got lucky, but I don't think so, the main thing is take your time, and if your not sure, DON'T DO IT, wait till the next day, it amazed me how many times leaving it alone till the next day let the clouds c lear, and lastly, don't work on it real late at nite or when your exhausted, your mental capacity can be gone and you do not even realize it, So my friend kick tail and get it done, been done before and will be again
GOOD LUCK
VELTORX1