[AT] OT

[charlie hill]

Richard,  I'm betting you lost a video card.  Question is, is yours
built into the mother board architecture or is it a plug in card.
Believe it or not those beeps mean something.  One of the first
computers I ever owned went black when it was almost new.
I called the manufacturer.  He told me to turn it on and tell him
how many beeps I heard.  I told him and he said it's your video 
card,  I'll mail you one.  A lot of water has rolled over the dam
since then so it might not apply to todays machines.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Fink Sr 
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 7:02 AM 
To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
Subject: Re: [AT] OT 

Steve i don,t know what died when i turn it on it just makes a beep beep 
sound no screen. I will take it to my repair guy and tell him FIX it don,t 
care what but not to exceed cost of new one. AT 73 i don,t like change.

TO ALL YOU OTHER ONES THANKS FOR THE REPLYS
R Fink
PA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve W." <swilliams268 at frontier.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT


> Richard Fink Sr wrote:
>> Hi need some feed back on computers. My computer with win XP has died
>> was looking at a new HP with win 8. Has any one run this and what are
>> your thoughts. I am old school love win XP and hate change have been
>> told it is all touch and so on takes special screen or
>> monitor???????????????? R Fink PA
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>
> I have run Win 8 for a while now.  Touch screen is NOT needed. It is a
> nice thing for some items but I have found nothing I can't do with the
> mouse/keyboard.
>
> Buying new you will end up with 8.1, it brings back a few of the old
> features, BUT with some minor tweaking and some easy changes you can
> make 8 look and act VERY close to XP.
>
> Like Larry said the big trick is usually the drivers for other hardware
> you own.
>
> Win. 8.1 can be set up to boot directly to the desktop.
>
> Some of the apps on the start screen are actually handy and all of the
> ones that are "active" can be turned off (right click and select Turn
> off live tile in the menu at the bottom)
>
>
> What died on your old machine? Hardware really isn't that hard to repair.
>
>
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