My PC at work has been playing up over the last few months. Sometimes when I plug in a USB drive, for example, I get the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. I suspect that it’s an issue with Windows rather than a fundamental hardware fault.
However, to prevent as much downtime as possible, I’ve been gifted a new PC
- IBM/Lenovo ThinkCentre 8215-CTO
- Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20 GHz
- 1 GB RAM
- 200 GB HDD
- DVD-RW
- Windows XP Professional SP2 (version 2002)
which I’m now running side-by-side with my current (sick) PC. I now have 4 monitors on my desk!
Tomorrow’s task will be to migrate my files over, get the new PC connected to the network, and install printers and Microsoft Office 2003.
Wow, 4 monitors? must feel like techy Heaven!
“Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20 GHz” : is that a Quad core processor? niiiiice!
MONITORS
I should have explained: The four monitors are spread between two PCs:
Old PC: IBM 8172-CTO has 3 monitors
New PC: IBM 8215-CTO has 1 monitor while I set it up
CPU
The Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20 GHz is a single-core hyper-threading CPU. It’s like it has some kind of split personality condition, and appears as two CPUs in Device Manager. Dual-core would be nice, quad-core would be nice, but single-core it is.
TECHY HEAVEN
Sadly it didn’t feel much like techy heaven last night at 20:45 while I was still in the office struggling to get my new PC to recognise the second graphics card from my old PC.
Error 1806: PCI Plug ‘n Play Resource Conflict
or something similar. And if I didn’t get that then it was a reboot cycle:
Reboot
Windows loading splash screen
Blank screen
Repeat
In the end I gave up around 21:00 and came home. Bah!
What you want for your visual display is one of these:
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-13855_1-9842798-67.html
How cool is that.
Kennedy
Your old 8187 that you got replaced (twice)… the first one you had the resource conflict error on, I think I have it now. I got one of the same ones on ebay and it gets the same error with a wireless card.