Recent content by JoeZorzin

I've owned many APC UPS over the years. Until recently many had what they described as a "USB data port". Your computer could be connected to it- so the company's software (PowerChute) could communicate with the UPS and, importantly, shut it off during an outage after a designated time. The...

It has a SSD which I put in years ago. I've had a lot of those and so far none have failed. At this point, it's just a play thing. I can experiment with it.

OK, I see on that site it's 64 bit. By the way, strange, but for the past few years- the high quality monitor that I got with that system- since I wasn't using this "Vista Box"- I let my wife take the monitor and I got a cheap not very good monitor at Staples. Then after a while I started to...

I see on the original paper work that it's the E6400 I can't tell- so far- if that page indicates whether it's a 32 bit or 64 bit. I bought it in '07.

Good suggestions. I never thought of upgrading the OS. I wonder if I could get W7 at all and cheap? I've bought RAM in the past, ususally at Micron. They might not have it but I'll check. It was a good machine- hate to dump it. My several much older Dell's with XP and heavy monitors- dump all of...

Dimension 9200 is it possible to upgrade from 32 bit to 64? Or is that built into the CPU? Assuming a 64 bit Vista was even available and it probably isn't.

Believe it or not- Vista. This high end Dell and Vista always performed well. Never any problems. It's too bad that Vista can't see more than 4 G- if even that. Maybe I'll try Linux lite.

I've got a Dell PC I bought way back in '07 which came with Vista. Still works. I bought another in '14 running W8.1 (still used every day). And, I intend to buy a new Dell any day. But, I wish I could keep that old Dell from '07 still working. It's not connected to my home network. I'd like to...

In the past, when I bought Dell PCs I always got high end systems with good if not the best graphic cards. I was doing a lot of video work so I wanted the cards. Now, I still do some video work but mostly just for fun. I don't need super speed or performance- just routine performance. So, for a...

OK, I think I get it. Hibernate has to write to disk the full status of the system- open files, etc. but sleep mode doesn't. If you experts don't hesitate to sleep an SSD, then I won't either. I have a high powered Dell XPS system so it should be ok. Thanks for your comments.

I've read somewhere that it's not a good idea to put SSDs into sleep mode. Comment?

Do you think it's best to turn off "fast restart" feature of Win 8.1 if we have a SSD boot drive? It writes some system info to disk to speed up restarting- though probably not nearly as much as sleep/hibernate mode. Joe

I read somewhere- can't remember where- that it's not a good idea to use "sleep" mode with a SSD boot drive if running Win 8.1. Comments? thanks, Joe