Subj : Re: XP Home -> XP Pro
To   : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
From : ROBERT FOWLER
Date : Mon Nov 08 2004 11:04 pm

-=> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to ROBERT FOWLER <=-

 WC> "HP support site, "good as it is?"

 WC> You found some site other than the one listed in my manual?

 WC> No information about potential for CPU upgrade.

 WC> Nothing about the memory except purchasing through their designated
 WC> vender at  eight times the cost I got two sticks of perfectly
 WC> good used RAM for. 256 Meg.

 WC> Warned at that site the HP would not accept other memory it
 WC> seems to like the used unbuffered Micron DIMM's quite well :-)

 WC> The HP site I looked at for my Pavilion desktop was utterly useless
 WC> as is the rather large manual that dwarfs the highly useful
 WC> manual that accompanied my old 486.

 WC> Still for what I paid for the HP found on doorstep disassembled
 WC> ( 0.00$'s) by a disgruntled owner who knew I was into computers... not
 WC> a bad deal.

 When I upgraded my XT966 from ME to XP, I got a "migration" CD free from
 their website.  Provided BIOS and driver upgrades, info on which
 bundled software installed was incompatible with XP, and even provided
 substitute software for the same.

 Support for my HP G85xi all-in-one and JetDirect170X print server
 has also been good.  I understand that they do not endorse third
 party hardware replacements.

 Regards,

 Robert Fowler

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