To: August Abolins
  Re: bad news for hdd?
  By: August Abolins to Jas Hud on Sat Dec 31 2022 07:15 am

 > From Newsgroup: Micronet.MIN_COMP
 >
 >  JH> try using this instead
 >  JH> https://www.hdsentinel.com/
 >
 > The trial version will give enough info to deduce problems?
 >
 >
 >  JH> and dont be a nick andre.  dont run xp
 >
 > Porting everything over to a newer Win would be troublesome.
 > The T60 is maxed at 3GB ram as well, so it can't really support
 > Win7 for example.  (But maybe that would be worth a try) - I've
 > witnessed a Dell Optiplex with 2GB ram and hosting Win7 - it's
 > not too bad in performance.
 >

you can run windows 7 on 1gig of ram. right now i have a guy running
a bbs on 1gig of ram that can go to 2gig when needed.
3 gigs would be fine.

i used to run win7 on a netbook that had 1 gig of ram.
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