Tag:Dell Precision T7400

Migrecover

So this is the only Mig I could find in my archives – a Mig 17A on display at the The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler, GA, just west of Savannah. But this post has nothing to do cold war era Soviet fighter planes, this post is about MigRecover, a utility for recovering files from Windows Easy Transfer .mig files when your upgrade goes west, as mine did. Back on April 28th I posted on how Dell had […]

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The nightmare continues…

I have to say that everyone I have dealt with at Dell has been courteous and professional, they just haven’t solved the problem with Windows 7 and my year-old hardware. Indeed, they have fallen back on the old chestnut of IT support, “When all else fails, blame the user”. A techincian arrived today and installed a new MOBO. The process was relatively quick and painless but what happened after was far from it. He powered up the machine and for […]

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Stop: 0x00000124, A nightmare on Windows 7

So Photoshop CS5 is just around the corner – mid-May (like the nebulous late-April shipping date for the iPad I ordered) so I thought I’d upgrade my Dell Precision T7400 from 32-bit Windows XP  to 64-bit Windows 7 in order to take advantage of the 64-bit, quad-core processor capabilities of CS5 and leverage the 4 GB of RAM I have in the machine – possibly adding more (it will go up to 128 GB of RAM but I’m don’t think my budget […]

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