Computer again-fixed must read-Vista on the way out

[eyelostit]

As I type it is so quiet I feel like I am in another world, I took my computer up to the fix it place, armed with my new power supply which was free from hp since I am still under warranty, the guy opens the side of it takes a look, turns it on, says is this the sound, "yes it is" , the fan needed cleaned out which is right in front of the CPU, so he gets a vaccum and sprays that can of air at the fan and at the same time uses the vacuum on it, and cleaned the inside of the computer.

I said well i guess i can do this, he said yes but hold your vacuum hose away from it a bit, he told me to call hp cuz no doubt the cpu was over heating and that why the fan was going strong all the time.

I got a memory chip put in also, cost $80.00, well.....it was worth it to me to have silence now, and more memory, had I know about the fans inside and who all really is using a sweeper in their computers, it never occured to me, not at the top of my list, so I best do it at least once a year.

So I gotta call hp and get the cpu thing.

I noticed this noise alot when I would go to other forums, I assume they must load alot of things into memory.

So now I have quiet peace in this room now, and why the other people at hp or ms when I put the phone to the computer to hear the noise just ignored me like I was an idiot !!

Anyway I had asked about upgrading to Vista, he said no, MS is coming out with a Windows 7, I guess they learned from Vista and the problems.

So theres a heads up for anyone who did not know this, I didn't, I only use this computer for bill pay, this forum and a few other places, so I could not imagine why my computer was going so slow, so I gotta do some work laying all around in this office cuz with taking the computer apart, and all the other stuff, you know I had to rearrange everything, so thats another mess............:o

[JazzyGirlsMom]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS][COLOR=navy][B]I got a memory chip put in also, cost $80.00, well.....it was worth it to me to have silence now, and more memory,

LOL Dolly, if only it worked this way w humans too! I could use another memory chip but not for my computer. Happy to hear you've found peace and solitude. I'm still not at 100% w mine, but it works for what I need it for at this point.

Tracey

[peggy0]

Don't do Vista!!!! It's a mess. Yes MS is coming out with Windows 7 but they've delayed it again. I'm in this business so I understand. I go through an internal power supply yearly and typically its because a bunch of dust gets in there :) I try to keep it dusted, but dusting is not my favorite thing in life to do when I have some spare time.

[k9diabetes]

Whether I'd recommend upgrading to Vista would depend on how much memory and power your computer has. If it's an older system, I wouldn't. At the moment, my computer is still running XP.

But... I wouldn't jump to the new OS either. They ALL have problems when they first come out. My husband's laptop has Vista and we didn't buy it until a year or two after Vista first came out so the bugs were worked out by then and he hasn't had any problems with it at all.

But he also has a lot of memory and a fast processor.

Same thing will happen with the new operating system. Unless you want to be a guinea pig, give any new OS some time to get the kinks worked out before using it - that's my motto.

I mainly stuck with NT when I bought this computer because all of the software I use daily was not yet Vista compatible. It would be no problem to run Vista on this computer now.

Natalie