Computer upgrades.

[homburgler]

All right, I’m a little bit scared. Our company is going to upgrade all our computers. We get nice new shiny desktop computers with flat screens and a new OS. I’ve asked them to leave the computers that run my CMMs alone, but that’s not an option. Now I have a couple questions for all you experts out there. All of my programs are on the network so they won’t be affected. It’s just the PC-DMIS reinstall that I’m worried about. What do I need to do to prepare for an install? Since I’m installing again, should I upgrade? We’ve had problems with our dual arm with 3.7 MR1… Should I upgrade to 4+? Anyone have experience with dual arm on 4+? Hopefully this change will go smoothly.

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

All right, I’m a little bit scared. Our company is going to upgrade all our computers. We get nice new shiny desktop computers with flat screens and a new OS. I’ve asked them to leave the computers that run my CMMs alone, but that’s not an option. Now I have a couple questions for all you experts out there. All of my programs are on the network so they won’t be affected. It’s just the PC-DMIS reinstall that I’m worried about. What do I need to do to prepare for an install? Since I’m installing again, should I upgrade? We’ve had problems with our dual arm with 3.7 MR1… Should I upgrade to 4+? Anyone have experience with dual arm on 4+? Hopefully this change will go smoothly.

See these:

http://cmmprogrammer.19.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=115

http://cmmprogrammer.19.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=326

[cmmguy]

All right, I’m a little bit scared. Our company is going to upgrade all our computers. We get nice new shiny desktop computers with flat screens and a new OS. I’ve asked them to leave the computers that run my CMMs alone, but that’s not an option. Now I have a couple questions for all you experts out there. All of my programs are on the network so they won’t be affected. It’s just the PC-DMIS reinstall that I’m worried about. What do I need to do to prepare for an install? Since I’m installing again, should I upgrade? We’ve had problems with our dual arm with 3.7 MR1… Should I upgrade to 4+? Anyone have experience with dual arm on 4+? Hopefully this change will go smoothly.

So are they putting new PC's in all the machine tools too?? since they are probably 486's or 1st gen pentiums running NT or 2000...

[bob mappes]

.....Vista will only be supported with version 4.3 when it comes out next year

[Underspec]

I would rejoice and be happy that they are upgrading old equipment. God knows we all could use some. I would not reinstall everything from scratch however. See if your IT guys (or ladies) can swap out your harddrive to the new computer. Shouldn't be a problem unless you are using some very old computer. Most computers nowadays use IDE/EIDE hard drives and that hasn't changed for awhile.