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Dave

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[Boris]

Well, to my surprise, the Crucial Storage Executive software says that it is fine !

Its normal temps seem to be in the 30-35 range, which should be OK.

I shall be watching it like a hawk, but at least the Crucial 3yr warranty on it should be OK ?

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JayCeeDee wrote:

The country has just been offered a ‘May’Update – does that count????

She must have been watching the final episode in that old series “May to December” ?

– the episode called – “Until It’s Time For You To Go”

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[Boris]

It has now installed using the normal download/install method.  It took about 3 hours – I’m only on 12mb broadband – (this was an i3-3220 with 8GB DDR3 and a spinner) so an SSD would be faster.

It all seems to work OK (hopefully).

It now creates a Windows.old folder (with the old version) so the C drive grew from 20GB to 40GB during the processs.

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[Boris]

If you copied the ISO file to an internal H/D and ran Setup from there, presumably that upgrade would work ?

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[Boris]

That limitation would really screw up any attempt to do a fresh installation ! ???

Presumably someone wants to bring back use of DVDs for fresh installations ?

But ……… would the 64bit version even go on a single DVD ????

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[Boris]

Yet another one !

May 21, 2019—KB4497934 (OS Build OS 17763.529)

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4497934

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[Boris]

17763.504 updated properly this time – so they’ve fixed the “double install” problem. ?

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Alan Wood wrote:

Yes but you need to install it twice. It seems that this update depends on a .net update which needs to be installed first ie on the first run.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4494441

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[Boris]

Dave Rice wrote:

It’s just too old Les. You’ll only be able to run a system contemporary to the time.

What about Puppy ? 4 or 5 ?

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Les. wrote:

Boris, thanks for that lot. Yes, step 7 shows where I was, step 12 shows the one under the K/B. In the past when I only found one slot, there was permanent on board memory, I just assumed it would be like that here. Yes please, if you do have suitable ram.  Les.

Sorry Les,

Just spent about an hour going through all the boxes.  I have 6 sticks of PC2700 SO-DIMM – but unfortunately they are all 256MB – the 512MB  sticks I thought were PC2700 are in fact all PC4200/5300, so no good for you.

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[Boris]

The notebook was available with several hard drive options. 40GB and 60GB both with 4,200rpm or 5,400rpm speeds.

Also available was an 80GB 5,200rpm HDD

So a bigger faster H/D is another possible performance improvement.

Here is a teardown guide for it – https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/HP+Compaq+nx7010+Business+Notebook+Teardown/15665

Step 7 shows you the RAM it takes.

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[Boris]

That lappie should take up to 2GB of PC 2700 ??

– see https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-compaq-business-notebook-nx7010/

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Les. wrote:

Boris, I never thought of possibility of RAM increase. I opened the little “Ram” compartment, where I found a single piece of laptop ram, 256MB, DDR, PC2700. CL2.5. I switched on just to confirm and it entered setup to confirm the change of RAM, so I just shut down and refitted the single stick. Obviously there must be an onboard 256 MB. That leaves the question what would it take? I assume the best hope would be to fit a 512 stick, if available, giving a maximum of 768MB. I have some sticks here, so I have just been to check what I have. 512, 1GB and 2GB, but none will fit. Looking at my ram, with indent on RHS, the ones that won’t fit require a slot slightly more to the RHS. Not sure how else to describe. Cheers, Les.

I’ll have a look in my spares boxes tomorrow for anything 512MB or bigger. The existing “onboard” RAM will probably be under the keyboard.

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[Boris]

If you want to make it more usable by putting some more RAM in it, I probably have some.

What can you put in it ?

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Les. wrote:

No super deal updates on the SSD front recently.

?

Lexar NS100 2.5” SATA III (6Gb/s) 120GB SSD £14.99 delivered.

https://www.7dayshop.com/products/lexar-ns100-2-5-sata-iii-6gb-s-120gb-ssd-solid-state-drive-120gb-lns100-120rbna

PNY CS900 SSD SATA III 2.5” 120GB SSD £15.99 delivered.

https://www.7dayshop.com/products/pny-cs900-ssd-sata-iii-2-5-inch-solid-state-drive-120gb-ssd7cs900-120-pb

Patriot Memory Burst SSD 2.5” SSD £15.99 delivered.

https://www.7dayshop.com/products/patriot-memory-burst-ssd-solid-state-drive-2-5-sata-iii-internal-120gb-pbu120gs25ssdr

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Les. wrote:

No super deal updates on the SSD front recently. What are the best 240GB SSD drives out there currently? Les.

Western Digital Green 240GB £24.99 delivered (7 day shop)

https://www.7dayshop.com/products/western-digital-green-pc-internal-ssd-solid-state-drive-2-5-240-gb-sata-iii-wds240g2g0a?

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[Boris]

My laptop however (which was still on 17763.437) still shows that same version, even though KB4494441 has just installed correctly and shows as such. Weird !

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[Boris]

17763.503 was released yesterday as a separate cumulative update.

My rig (already running 17763.475) installed it last night.

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