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Upgraded my OS to windows 7 and now my computer wont boot up. After 10 hours of fawking around I took it to the shop. 3-5Day turn around.

 

Sounds like you botched something during the upgrade...

 

Ever since 95>98 I've considered upgrades russian roulette and luckily I never got folled into the Windows ME upgrade. May those users computers RIP

 

Upgrades are always iffy. Best to do a clean install

 

Or install Ubuntu

 

+1 for ubuntu

 

I hijacked my wifes machine for a few minutes here . . .

well day 3 still waiting for info, figure I'll find out more tomorrow (3rd business day).

I did have to laugh in one guys face when he told me it sounded like I needed a bigger power supply . . . when I built the thing I went with a 750w just so I could add on and not have issues (had a TON of power to spare). Now 4 years later you are telling me the addition of a ethernet card is eating all my power? yeah I'll just go someplace else thank you.

 

To be fair, I've seen a lot of crappy power supplies not putting out their supposed current. Even a 750 Watt may not be a true 750 Watt in some cases.

The easy way to determine is to unplug any non-essential and see what happens. But yeah, any 750 W ought to be plenty unless you are running dual gaming video cards, and then, probably still be enough.

Honestly, it could be a number of things. Try reseating memory, or checking all connections (like the extra PSU cords, etc)?

I think Windows 7 has been the best OS to upgrade IMO.

 

(at work atm)

na it's a solid 750w no problems. When I built this thing I was still pretty hard core into MMORPGs (read raiding 60+ hours per week in high end guilds) and was building a machine I would be able to upgrade to dual SLI video cards.

Still havent heard back from the shop . . . dont matter I'm pulling another 48 anyway so not like I could go get it today (or tomorrow)

 

This...

 

You working a swap or did your department decide overtime pay (and stress) was cheaper than hiring needed staff?

 

this 48 is a swap. One of the guys took vacation to go see the last shuttle launch with his kids and they delayed the launch so he needed a day. The 48 I worked on Friday/Saturday was for the lack of hiring . . . but in our departments case it's cheaper to leave a few (70) vacancies and hire overtime then it is to hire those guys and pay the salary/benefits and training.

 

Just curious.. If you have the skills to build a PC. Why are you paying a shop to do repairs? I'm an IT guy and have built many PCs just seems counter intuitive.

 

building them isnt that hard, as long as it all goes right (tab A into slot B type stuff TBH). My problem is I dont have the patience to troubleshoot and diagnose.