new bits of kit

[rainbow demon]

HI All

Just recently purchased a few new pieces of kit, a Revelation 2.5 barlow  from telescope house, a regulated 12volt power supply, FLO had them on their website but no longer available so managed to get the last one in stock from maplins, puts out a continuous 5 amps and 13.8 volts, picked up a 10 metre power cable from those very nice people at Rother Valley Optics, a new lappy well newish, a refurb from Argos outlet an ASUS K55A came with windows 8 6gig Ram and 1TB HDD, recently had windows 7 installed and upgraded  the ram to the max 8gig, installed all the astro software everything working ok well almost, I have the eqtooth adapter but for some reason windows cant find it, but that's for another post.

 

Clear skies.

[Guest Tweedledum]

That's a nice haul Peter, glad to see that you upgraded to W7, .

[rainbow demon]

Hi Damian

 

At first tried it with windows 8, think every thing worked ok, but was getting a message that windows wasn't installed and  to enter the product key, as it was a refurb of course I didn't have one.

 

Cheers

Peter

[Guest Tweedledum]

Hi Peter,

 

I hate W8, 8.1, there are others who don't.  I have looked after large IT estates (8000+ desktops, laptops), W7 has been the most stable for me!!.

[+Graham]

Hi Damian

 

At first tried it with windows 8, think every thing worked ok, but was getting a message that windows wasn't installed and  to enter the product key, as it was a refurb of course I didn't have one.

 

Cheers

Peter

 

Had the same problem with this pc.

Rang up the phone number listed on the registration page and explained I did not have the key and they gave me one over the phone.

W8 has been great ever since.