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When Windows XP Goes Away, HP Thinks Businesses Will Start Buying PCs Again
Business Insider ^ | 06/15/2013 | Kevin McLaughlin

Posted on 06/15/2013 10:29:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Zeneta
Power up, and I can hear the drive spin and search for about 5 seconds, then it dies.

I don’t have a “boot disc” or the ability to F* out of the boot up.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly accepted.

Do you see the POST screen?

As someone else mentioned, you may need a boot disk (assuming your system can still boot from an optical drive, and the BIOS boot-sequence will allow it). A Puppy Linux live CD or the System Rescue CD might be of use.

61 posted on 06/15/2013 11:52:57 AM PDT by holymoly (I hope this isn't double posting again.)
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To: The Cajun

XP is what an OS, by definition should be.

Let me decide what bells and whistles I want.

I don’t need Mister Softy or Apple telling me or assuming what my intentions are.


62 posted on 06/15/2013 11:57:02 AM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: meatloaf
OpenVMS? Is EDT still available for PCs? I had a copy years ago. It was a real timesaver in many ways with the control K feature.

I never came across an actual PC release — though there is this sourceforge project (documentation).

63 posted on 06/15/2013 11:57:28 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, it isn’t going to happen with Linux, because the “unix on the desktop” got a UI that works.

The Apple UI.

Why would I run Linux on my desktop when I have something that looks and smells like BSD Unix lurking behind the slick, consistent Apple UI?


64 posted on 06/15/2013 11:58:46 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: The Cajun

XP has been driving this computer and my business forever, and I have no intention of switching.
I would “upgrade” to a better version of ***exactly the same thing*** in a heartbeat.

Hello?
Microsoft? Anybody home?


65 posted on 06/15/2013 12:03:00 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Zeneta
Buy yourself a "X media" 2.5 HDD enclosure and have all that good stuff on a hard drive that you just plug in to access it!

Then you can have that data available no matter what option you choose for a new system, or fix what ya got!

66 posted on 06/15/2013 12:03:30 PM PDT by JDoutrider
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To: holymoly
Had this happen on a relatives desktop 2 months ago, reseated the memory boards, took care of the problem.

Went on afterward and CAREFULLY cleaned the memory card contacts (2 mem boards), no reports of trouble since.

Original symptom, it would hang on boot up, wouldn't get to Win start up screen, Hd would stop spinning (Win 7 OS).

67 posted on 06/15/2013 12:04:44 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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To: holymoly

OK, So, I fired this POS up for the first time in months.

I get no video image, Nothing.

I hear about 3 to 5 seconds of a hard drive spinning up and it stops.

I get blinking lights from the “Caps lock” and “drive working” with no spin of the hard drive.

Keep in mind this just happened out of the blue.

If I got a boot disc, I’m not even certain that it will pick it up.


68 posted on 06/15/2013 12:12:01 PM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: Zeneta; Lancey Howard
I don’t need Mister Softy or Apple telling me or assuming what my intentions are.

LOLOL, I think it's that stinking little *paper clip* from years ago that embedded itself and took over their business :)

69 posted on 06/15/2013 12:12:16 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

70 posted on 06/15/2013 12:13:05 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: The Cajun

It is interesting sometimes how often a software problem turns out to be a hardware problem.


71 posted on 06/15/2013 12:14:05 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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To: OneWingedShark

Then you’d be switching chip architectures, because I know of no plans to port VMS to the i32 or i64 architecture.

About the only fast way to get there (as far as I can see), would be a VM that emulates the Alpha or Itanium instruction set on i64.

The biggest barriers, IMO, to porting VMS to the i64 would be the lack of the Bliss compiler for your target architecture. You could write a program to translate the Macro stuff over, but all that Bliss-32 code... woof. That’s a huge undertaking.


72 posted on 06/15/2013 12:14:17 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: JoeProBono
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73 posted on 06/15/2013 12:15:31 PM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: Yossarian

Yeah, if your ‘work’ consists of playing angry birds.

Win 7 is an excellent platforum and OS.


74 posted on 06/15/2013 12:17:58 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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To: JoeProBono
Ya been talking to my wife, haven't ya, LOL!

Sometimes I just think she's messing with my mind when she tells me "she told me this or that already" or she's the one that's really slipping :)

75 posted on 06/15/2013 12:18:03 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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To: Lancey Howard

What doesn’t 7 do for you? Have you tried it? It’s a great OS.


76 posted on 06/15/2013 12:19:18 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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To: Lancey Howard

That’s what 7 *is*.


77 posted on 06/15/2013 12:19:59 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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To: ctdonath2

Umm, no, no they aren’t.


78 posted on 06/15/2013 12:22:03 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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To: 867V309

You can also download Classic Shell and you never have to see the Metro UI again.


79 posted on 06/15/2013 12:23:41 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Edward Teach

It might be acceptable for home users but I’m not moving an enterprise with 1800 users to 8. We’ll stay at 7 as that was painful enough for them.


80 posted on 06/15/2013 12:24:25 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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