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March 11th, 2014 18:00

WIN 7

HI,Will a stock DELL E 521 run WIN 7 OS,the M/S program said to check with DELL about some compatibility issues.

Also can you ruin a CPU besides over heating it, i have MOBO coming in a few days and i have a 3.0 CPU that i can install on MOBO before installing in case can i damage the MOBO with it.

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March 11th, 2014 20:00

HI,Will a stock DELL E 521 run WIN 7 OS,the M/S program said to check with DELL about some compatibility issues.
Win 7 x64 will run on the E521.

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March 14th, 2014 00:00

See Windows Reinstallation Guide/.A Clean Install of Windows 7:

http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/

Most things will work natively with Windows 7 however you may wish to use these drivers for best results:

http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/driver-sets/dimension-desktops/dimension-e521-windows-7-64-bit/

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March 20th, 2014 18:00

HI,I got my MOBO replaced and installed WIN 7 on new SSDH HDD finally got video card to took awhile to

find drivers for i cheated and dug out box it came in and found right web site to download drivers from now it

shows up in device manager.

I have my other HDD backed up to a WD external HDD,now just have to get straight in my head how to transfer all of what i can to new HDD,I just have to get procedure thought out before starting it.

The original HDD is about 8yrs old so it may not last much longer.

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