06-07-14 13:44 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Windows 7   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <53943D81.12927.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW> Greetings Ed!   
   Howdy! Roy,   
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    EV> From other comments made it seems to me that this HP a1430n may   
    EV> do O.K. unless I have a situation like Yours where W7 didn't like   
    EV> some hardware in this pc as happened to You.   
      
    RW> I would think highly of a laptop that one could find a new W7   
    RW> driver for its hardware. Right now the likelyhood of that   
    RW> happening for my Dell 'Inspiron' laptop to anything but the   
    RW> scrap heap is too good for it.   
      
   The HP pc is a Desktop that has Dual Core AMD 2.0Gc/s processors in it.   
      
   I got it just before companies started putting DDR2 RAM in pc's.   
   But the 2GB DDR RAM I have in it seems to do good enuf, even though   
   sometimes I have to be patient with the box.   
      
   It reminds me sometimes of a program I used for studying the Stars and   
   Planets on the Commodore 64.   
   That Program whenever I changed the Date and Time of the Night Sky,   
   would crank and crank the floppy drive getting the info it needed so   
   it could display the objects in the sky for that date.   
      
   Another function my computer missed out on is being able to BOOT from   
   a USB Stick.   
   HP issued one BIOS Update shortly after I purchased the XP box, but   
   the update didn't include USB Booting.   
   They never offered another BIOS Update for the a1430n.   
   I've lived with it though, at least it will Boot from a CD or DVD or   
   even a External USB Floppy Drive.   
      
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