Hi All,
Finally upgraded my computer today…. It turns out the CPU cooler i bought, despite being the correct one, didn’t fit very well on my motherboard, it virtually was sitting on some capacitors and was a very tight fit between the 2 brackets needed to connect to the MB first so decided to pull that and ordered a different one, came today and fits much better, despite a bit of working out how to fit as the box says for 1151 socket and I have a 1200, so i thought amazon had put the wrong details on, went to manufacturers site, the first bit of specs doesn’t say 1200, but scrolling down it then says 1200 socket and the box it came in, even though says 1151, in the specs on the side 1200 is listed. But the manual only shows for 1366, 1151, 1156, 775, no 1200 so basically had 3 options for where to put the screws so had to try each one to see what lined up, typically it was the last one I tried.
The came the next issue, the case I bought is not a bad case but there is hardly any room in it, with the PSU and the DVD drive I barely have enough room to fit the cables in, need to fit the cables first before putting them in. Also then connected up everything to get a basic system working for now to test if Win 11 would activate etc, the it just no room to feed the cables round.
So I’ve ordered another case which will arrive mid week.
On the plus side, I’ve got the PC running now, I have left the panels off and I first loaded with existing SSD, that was surprising quick to load, no installing drivers etc… It also shows Windows as activated.. i installed the NIC, rebooted, still activated so shut down, pulled the SSD, powered back up using the on-board M.2, booted off USB stick with Win 11 installation, did a fresh install, it asked for a key so I put in my Win 7 key, it took a bit but then went through! All activated when logged into Win 11! Rather surprised as I read Win 11 install wouldn’t take a Win 7 key… so so far all is good.
I’m just in the process of re-installing all my apps etc as all I need to do is remove the components and fit into the new case. Only item left to fit that I haven’t so far is my sound card but I’m using onboard sound for now.
I had a full tower case before but I don’t really need a case that big now due to having a NAS etc, previously I used to just have HDs in the PC and have data on them but now I’ve pretty much kept most data on the nas, I have 1 3.5″ HDD that i keep some data on on the PC but that’s about it.
I’m going to use my old OS SSD as a second SSD eventually, atm its connected up as a additional drive purely for pulling files off it etc.
So far Win 11 not too bad, some parts I prefer the old win 10 for i.e. My Computer window doesn’t have the File menu now and they have re-named/changed the settings again so had to re-find where the options where i needed to change etc but so far not too bad.
Thanks for all your help @Grisu and @UKSentinel
Kev
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