Hi all, my in-laws asked me to look at their computer, it kept freezing while booting up. Booting in safe mode it would get to the mup.sys file and hang up. I went through everything I could to figure out the problem. Even tried to repair the mup.sys and agp44.sys files but no luck. I swapped out power supplies, ram and checked the hard drive. Ran a chkdsk /r on the hard drive and it booted up once after that then went back to the same problem. Even used PS2 adapters on the keyboard and reset the cmos. I'm guessing the computer is done with, it's an Emachine btw.
Anyhow, I'm at a point where I think their only course is to get a new computer. They were asking about their options and I pointed out that you could build 1 for around $400, using the budget guide on this site. They were asking about the $300-$400 systems you can get at Frys, which include an OS. My response was that they don't seem worth it, to me at least. Granted they aren't doing anything other than surfing the net and playing solitaire but a $400 system with an OS included seems very cheap.
Is openoffice.org a better alternative to MS Office? I've not used it before.
I just wanted to get some advice from some of you though. Would building 1 still be a better option even though it'd cost another $200 for Windows 7 and what? $300 for Office? I don't think they have the installation disks for the Emachine, I assume it's one of the disks that has everything on it which can't be used on another machine, right? Anyhow, any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Anyhow, I'm at a point where I think their only course is to get a new computer. They were asking about their options and I pointed out that you could build 1 for around $400, using the budget guide on this site. They were asking about the $300-$400 systems you can get at Frys, which include an OS. My response was that they don't seem worth it, to me at least. Granted they aren't doing anything other than surfing the net and playing solitaire but a $400 system with an OS included seems very cheap.
Is openoffice.org a better alternative to MS Office? I've not used it before.
I just wanted to get some advice from some of you though. Would building 1 still be a better option even though it'd cost another $200 for Windows 7 and what? $300 for Office? I don't think they have the installation disks for the Emachine, I assume it's one of the disks that has everything on it which can't be used on another machine, right? Anyhow, any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
