Recent content by scubaguy2020

hey thanks for the thoughts. if anything, i'm at 11 years, not 7, so ... win11... ie.. - win10 being unprotected soon. maybe that's an argument. i agree with you, not like the cost of an electric car, so not to agonize over. and, i found a deal.. 25% off a PC... loaded... 13400, but also 16G...

backup. not a bad idea...

Budget Range: 700-900 CDN$ System Usage from Most to Least Important: working at home, office work, internet, mail etc. ; some photo / vid editing (adobe) Are you buying a monitor: No (already have) Parts to Upgrade: from a complete Acer desktop PC to an ????????????? Preferred Website(s)...

single short beep, which denotes system coming up and ok... but then every 20s or so another beep gone into the bios.. played around couldn't find anything useful.

Checked the bios... was P03-A1 and updated successfully to P03-A3. I believe the latest possible. No go. Card still won't let windows come up. Board is s1155 from acer m3970-eb15 model

I'm using HDMI, not DP. in UEFI - every post everywhere says use that. can't really boot on a different card, only have 1 PCI slot in the board, therefore if i boot on a diff card, i can't update the Nvidia on the new card. to run the tool on the new card, i need it installed, but i can't see...

update on the gpu situation... so i returned the 1050ti. assumed my pc was too old / incompatibility. i thought the 710/730 wasn't enough upgrade to make it worth it. i bought a zotac gt 1030 (2Gb). i got a good deal and it was fair more performance than the old AMD hd. tried it... same...

I have an Acer M3970 desktop, not new by any means, but it has an i7-3770 in it and I've been gradually upgrading over the years. e.g. - 2x the ram, added and SSD drive. It performs pretty well for regular stuff and i'm all about preserving it as long as I can vs. buying new ones every few...