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well, after a day of turmoil, . I'm going to try to save/recover the old HD.. via USB enclosure.. THEN... go through some mess to reformat/etc.... If it don't chance of rain on me before I get some roof patched, the tire fixed on the logsplitter, Service done on the truck, and enough wood...

Funny, I ran XPEE with a few tweaks early on for years... system was stable as heck..24/7/almost 365,,,,,,"New Win7 machine is a couple years old, I didn't use it hardly at all..cause I didn't like the way the interface is. Sorry......... took me a couple years, and some "tweaks" to get XP...

wonderful, ain't it!!!!!!!!! Heck, had new RAM, nothing else, other than the new mobo.. working fine, just gave me the "finger", ... Power supply seems ok.. I may be able to put the HD in a USB case, and recover , but that really isn't what I wanted to do. .. I'm much more familiar with "my...

Yes, LED was on with the new supply, we also checked with the old one, and the LED also was lit. Nothing else was happening..period.. no fans, nuttin As I said, I hated to think it would be a new mobo, but.. well, it happens. It was an OEM replacement, anyway. Just strange that it let me...

Update....well, new power supply, no go., still have LED on the mobo, no action elswhere. I think, I heard a one beep.. when we plugged in the power, but it was faint, if at all. . looks like mobo failure, ???? Cant believe it let me finish a flash data backup before it went south?

I'm noping... for sure... if not.. plan B....can use the space anyway.. here. Just that I had a "Bunch" of stuff that worked on the old XP machine, what worked well.. Learning Win7 is a "pain"., at times... !!! What isn't broke, shouldn't be.. especially operating systems and hardware...

got another psu on the way.. may help..if it does.. that's great.if not, then maybe I'll need a bit of help/expertise with using the old hardrive with Win7 machine.. in a dual boot situation... Pretty sure it can be done. Keeping it simple, of course I've been so attached to this "old"...

thankx for the reply... like I said had more "eminent" problems at the moment (cold, roof leak, etc) all came at the same time. Least I have a "spare" system to use, although, I'm not familiar with the way some of my programs work with Win7...the old machine was tried and true... no problems...

Strange thing happened yesterday. Was working online, Norton put a flag up that there was high CPU usage, a fan kicked on, so I figgered something was warming up. Backed up my work, closed down my programs and shut the computer down. No problems, right? Went back to start back up and no...