Recent content by Crystal_B

In the future I will probably buy a new upgrade, I'm more likely shifting over to linux or something but I will never upgrade to the newer windows! I think my option for now is to try buy a new product activation key, I'm ok with this ..... I wish some body had told me b4 i changed motherboards...

Thanks for the reply stonecarver yes it is a work around and might be the necessity in the end. I really don't want to give up quiet yet. I spent so many sleepless nights working on it and its so close to going

I have made some progress, hoping somebody could help me through the last steps I seem to be stuck at I will list the things i done so far: my windows7 installer USB would not run on the new UEFI sytem cleaned the usb and converted it to Gpt then using Rufus installed the iso and got it working...

I can not boot to safe mode either I get the same BSOD

thank you USAFRet yes i love gimp its a great product i will look at the fx home also and DSzymborski very true I took an image of the drive b4 i started I failed at my research in knowing this would happen, I was thinking if I format the drive then copy the files over on the new system it...

yes their are newer versions of my software but buying or installing it when I did cost a lot of $$ faststone, image composer, a full older suit of photo shop, afterFX, gimp and there are a couple video editing...

thank you for your time :cool:

I have a lot of editing software ware some of the programs i can not get again :(

if i reinstall I will loose all my installed programs.

no the new mother board is not the same old MB: JW-IG41-L3 4G RAM INTEL DUAL CORE CPU NEW MB: BCM Rx67Q 16G RAM Intel Core i5-3470 CPU

SkyNetRising I have tried all 3 settings and so it still has not booted. ATM is is set to AHCI

My old MB was failing so a replacement was necessary. I replaced it with BCM Rx67Q link below with the combo specs if needed The replacement went well and the computer which is Linux mint / win 7 dual boot, the Linux boots great and I'm using it to type this message. Windows 7 will not boot at...

Hi just thought I would update on how things are proceeding. Being stuck between the a new mother board and the new laptop and carefully considering all possible options. And it came down to living in a RV full time and my workspace, and I settled for fixing up my old tower since space wise...

thank you it does look very much like my mb, and thank you for the tips win 7 64 bit

thats the hope now i guess but i can not finding J&W JW-IG41M-L3 MB's any where and i can not even get to their web site .... their is a Lenovo L-IG41M-L3 mb with the same number fairly cheap on ebay but sitting with a torch and trying to compare my mb with the lenovo picture i see some differences