Recent content by saltyseadog

Thanks for the replies folks. In the end I just went ahead and bought the parts above plus a 1TB HDD and a copy of Windows 10. My wife convinced me on it as my eldest grand daughter wants a PC. As I have an old busted MSI PC I used to use as a music centre in my loft workshop I will use the...

I built my present PC around 5-6yrs ago and have noticed recently some signs of GPU degredation. To keep costs down, instead of buying a complete new set of parts would it be possible to just buy a new motherboard, CPU and Graphics Card and replace the existing ones. I found the following parts...

Thanks for that checking it out now.

Everything went fine I made the disc on my 64 bit Win7 PC using nLite and following the instructions from a YouTube video I downloaded. As I had already installed the XP SP3 update I haven't tried the new disc but next time I have to reinstall at least I have it to hand rather than the rigmarole...

Thanks very much for this timely advice. I spent a fruitless couple of hours trying to get a WiFi adapter to connect to my Virgin hub before realising that the built in card is not capable of wifi. I came on the PC tonight to check out a new card for an old PC and on checking my email saw that...

The cable I have is quite long and I don't want to go drilling holes through walls etc. Also for some reason I am being limited to 10Mbps on the XP machine while my Win7 main PC is getting the full 200Mbps. My wife's tablet and mobile phone get a great service from the WiFi from the Virgin...

I have recently installed an old WinXP desktop PC to my workshop. It lay in the loft the last few years packed and unused. I have it all working now updated to XP SP3 final updates and it is at present connecting to the internet through a long Cat5E cable from my Virgin superhub 2 modem. The XP...

Thanks for that, downloaded and in the process of slipstreaming now.

I came across this thread from here http://www.computerforums.org/forums/articles-computer-server-software/how-create-windows-xp-install-cd-sp3-latest-hotfixes-included-207432.html while reinstalling an old WinXP SP2 Home Edition PC to my workshop. I know it is a very old thread and the links...