Upgrades from Hell is an ongoing series of articles detailing my experiences with upgrading computers.
Upgrades might be a piece of hardware, or some software, or both. Frequently the upgrades contain information which might be useful to someone else in the same situation, just as frequently, the information is completely out of date and useless. Caveat Emptor!
I write these in aus.talk.ltuae (and a few other Internet newsgroups), so a search of groups.google.com will turn them up with keyword searching. I also have a keyword search on my home page (Xavatoria Search) which could be useful for finding references to particular pieces of hardware.
Most of the articles contain resolutions to problems. Some of them don't. Indeed, some of them don't even contain problems, just a description of how an upgrade went without problems, which is a reportable event, considering how often things just go terribly wrong.
Here's the index to the UFH articles. Once you click on an article, use your browser's BACK button to get back to this index.As always, any bouquets or brickbats should be addressed to me via the link below.
Article Title | Date posted |
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Building another system | 14th March 1999 |
Bulding Val's system | Aug 1999 |
Installing a Compactflash cardreader | 2nd February 2000 |
Building Val's new system | 5th April 2000 |
A noisy fan problem | 2nd May 2000 |
Bad Memory | 29th June 2000 |
Installing Mique's system | 13th July 2000 |
Installing Linux | 21st July 2000 |
Upgrading Mandrake Linux 5.1 to 7.1 | 25th July 2000 |
Trying to install Windows ME | 28th October 2000 |
Considerations on reinstalling Windows 98 | 26th November 2000 |
Building a new system | 5th February 2001 |
ASUS A7V + Aureal = NO GO | 7th February 2001 |
Upgrading ASUS BIOS | 10th March 2001 |
Installing Mique's son's system | 14th March 2001 |
Matrox drivers and Quake 3 | 18th March 2001 |
Mique's system problems | 5th April 2001 |
Microsoft Intellipoint Optical | 9th April 2001 |
Backup devices | 12th May 2001 |
IP Masquerading | 21st May 2001 |
IP Masquerading | 23rd May 2001 |
Installing Mandrake Linux (part 1) | 27th May 2001 |
Installing Mandrake Linux (part 2) | 27th May 2001 |
B's Problem Computer | 12th July 2001 |
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