Lubuntu Help - Arrggg!!!!

GunJack

NiftyDigits wrote: »

I don't want to be the one to state the blindingly obvious...but your Service Tag indicates the GX260 for which the latest BIOS is the A09.
I'm beginning to get a headache. :rotfl:

That's coz I've been a bit dyslexic, it's 24FMM0J, deffo a sx260 on the dell site... soz, all this xmas stuff is frazzling my brain :xmassign: :wall:

Oh, and the vga trick worked, with the SX driver

NiftyDigits

gunjack wrote: »

that's coz i've been a bit dyslexic, it's 24fmm0j, deffo a sx260 on the dell site... Soz, all this xmas stuff is frazzling my brain :xmassign: :wall:

Oh, and the vga trick worked, with the sx driver

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GunJack

Right, so......

after much faffing with Windows Update getting itself in a tizz and cpu-hogging.....

The Lunchbox Has Landed :rotfl: :rotfl:

now running W7 Pro 32-bit on 1.25GB RAM with a 4GB pagefile, with Kodi installed and operating (a few tweaks needed to improve the out-of-sync aoudio/video as time allows )

The next step is to image the disk and try kodibuntu on there, safe in the knowledge I can re-instate a fully-working, streamimg-capable W7 system if it all goes T*TS-up with Linux again :rotfl:

John_Gray

GunJack wrote: »

...now running W7 Pro 32-bit on 1.25GB RAM with a 4GB pagefile

You will, of course, realise that with that little memory there will be a significantly large amount of paging performed...
Can you not whap in another 2 GB?

Fightsback

John_Gray wrote: »

You will, of course, realise that with that little memory there will be a significantly large amount of paging performed...
Can you not whap in another 2 GB?

That's if it doesn't catch fire or explode through a boiler/steam pressure fault first :eek:

GunJack

John_Gray wrote: »

You will, of course, realise that with that little memory there will be a significantly large amount of paging performed...
Can you not whap in another 2 GB?

not right now no.....

...but it has enough to try kodibuntu now which it didn't before