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My 6 year old Dell computer contracted a virus over the weekend thanks to most likely my 9 year old son.
Needless to say Norton was unable to stop it and now it won’t complete the boot process without restarting.
My IT guy says the only thing he can do is re-build the HD, but recommends that I just get a new computer and transfer the old data files I need.
I don’t have the time or patience to mess with this and it would cost about $600 for him to do the re-build so I am forced to put down my old computer in favor of a new one.
Old one was a Pentium 4 2.4GHz with 512mb of RAM
New one is a Core 2 Q200 Quad-Core (4MB L2 cache 2.33GHz) with 6GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz
More computer than I will ever need, but then again so was my last one and it lasted 6 years. I would not even be thinking about replacing it if it weren’t for the unfortunate event over the weekend.
The only bad thing is that it will be running Vista and not XP. I will just have to get used to it.
I will most likely swap the HD from my sons computer to the infected one since his is slower and has less RAM which is why he was using the home office computer. I am assuming it will work.
Needless to say Norton was unable to stop it and now it won’t complete the boot process without restarting.
My IT guy says the only thing he can do is re-build the HD, but recommends that I just get a new computer and transfer the old data files I need.
I don’t have the time or patience to mess with this and it would cost about $600 for him to do the re-build so I am forced to put down my old computer in favor of a new one.
Old one was a Pentium 4 2.4GHz with 512mb of RAM
New one is a Core 2 Q200 Quad-Core (4MB L2 cache 2.33GHz) with 6GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz
More computer than I will ever need, but then again so was my last one and it lasted 6 years. I would not even be thinking about replacing it if it weren’t for the unfortunate event over the weekend.
The only bad thing is that it will be running Vista and not XP. I will just have to get used to it.
I will most likely swap the HD from my sons computer to the infected one since his is slower and has less RAM which is why he was using the home office computer. I am assuming it will work.
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