[dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor - Final

Sun Aug 7 00:38:18 CDT 2016

Yep.  Rather old now.  The SQL Server is more powerful though. It is a 
dual cpu with 8 cores per cpu and 80 gb RAM, a TB of SSD raid 6, and 
about 8 TB rotating raid 6.  Again built probably 5 years ago now, 
actually "upgraded" at that time.  The Server chips are AMD and not 
particularly fast at around 2.2 ghz, but with 16 real cores it still 
pretty much does the trick.

Windows 2008 X64 and SQL Server 2008 64.  SQL Server can and does 
utilize all of the cores at some times, though often it will then use 
just one core.  Rather odd actually.  But all of my databases are 
compressed so that they load into memory compressed and are uncompressed 
on-the-fly.  Which gives all those cores something to do.  :)  In many 
cases, even though the databases can be pretty large, I can often fit 
much of it in memory all at once.  Thus a "memory database"... kinda sorta.

SQL Server is a pretty powerful beast.

Sadly MS changed their licensing model such that they now charge on a 
per core basis which pretty much killed AMD's advantage.  Intel is such 
a nasty company sometimes.
But that is why I stuck with 2008, and will for a loooong time.  I 
cannot afford to license 16 cores in the more modern versions.

On 8/6/2016 1:02 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> So when you decide to build your next super-computer give me a call...such a computer could be put to all sorts of uses, even in retirement. :-)
>
> Can I assume your computer is 64 bit with hyper-V hardware?
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 12:08:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor - Final
>
> Many years ago, in the process of setting up a business system for a
> client, I built a Hex core AMD with 32 gigs of RAM.  I installed SSDs to
> hold some high speed disk partitions for each VM.
>
> I Then purchased Windows 2011 (Windows Home Server) licenses for $40
> apiece, and installed 8 different VMs.  In fact I simply did one,
> installed everything I needed and then cloned that, using the licenses
> as I brought each clone up.  It turns out that WHS is called Windows
> 2011 but is actually 64 bit Windows 2008 under the skin.  So my VMs run
> a pretty powerful "Server" OS
>
> I now actually run 5 VMs which run a third party software for the
> business, and a sixth VM which runs my custom written C# application in
> VS 2013, which drives the other 5 VMs work.  In my case each of the 5
> VMs use 4 gigs of RAM and 2 "cores" and what I call my "dev" machine is
> a VM running 6 gigs and 4 "cores".    The VM Server OS is Windows 2008
> and I give it 6 gigs as well.
>
> It all runs very nicely and is very robust.
>
> On 8/4/2016 2:20 AM, John R Bartow wrote:
>> I have those too, one for just about everything stored on the server. I just
>> copy them over and run the as needed. The machine I refer to is the one that
>> ran all of those VMs. I just have a big honking server drive for backups so
>> I leave these there.
>>
>> One of these days I'll just set up a new server with all of them on it and
>> be done with it. When the eagle dumps ;-)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
>> John Colby
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 11:57 PM
>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor - Final
>>
>> You should see if you could transfer the OS installations to VMS.
>>
>>
>> On 8/3/2016 11:50 PM, John R Bartow wrote:
>>> Nothing wrong with that. My Win10 system has a full backup of both its
>>> Windows 7 and Windows XP versions on the server that I can restore in
>>> short order if I want to.
>>>
>>> My Windows 98 system remains Windows 98 :-)
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On
>>> Behalf Of Tina Norris Fields
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 7:29 PM
>>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor -
>>> Final
>>>
>>> Okay, the bottom line is:
>>>
>>> My Win 7 box remains Win 7
>>>
>>> My Win 8.1 box remains Win 8.1
>>>
>>> My Win XP box remains Win XP
>>>
>>> Sometime next year I will purchase a Win 10 box.
>>>
>>> The separate boxen, running different OSs will continue as before.
>>>
>>> Thank you to everyone who responded.
>>>
>>> TNF
>>>
>>> Tina Norris Fields
>>> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
>>> 231-322-2787
>>>
>>> On 07/22/16 8:08 AM, Tina Norris Fields wrote:
>>>> I may end up just keeping the several different systems.  My Inspiron
>>>> 9400 is WinXP (bought in 2006), and it's working. I bought the Vostro
>>>> 3500 in 2011 with Win7 pro to keep abreast of the new OS and match
>>>> the ones we have on campus. I bought the Inspiron 15-R in 2013,
>>>> running
>>>> Win8 64-bit - upgraded it to 8.1 - and it is my current main computer.
>>>> All are seeing each other on the network, and I use them for
>>>> different things. For example, most of the genealogical stuff is on
>>>> the Win7 pro computer; but all of the Adobe Creative Cloud stuff is
>>>> on the Win8.1 64-bit machine, along with all the accounting stuff.
>>>>
>>>> TNF
>>>>
>>>> Tina Norris Fields
>>>> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
>>>> 231-322-2787
>>>>
>>>> On 07/21/16 10:31 PM, Gary Kjos wrote:
>>>>> Yea I saw that as I scrolled further down.  Some work and some don't
>>>>> and some aren't happy with the end result even when it did work.  We
>>>>> use 7 at work and I run 10, Vista and XP at home on different
>>>>> systems and I can move from system to system and share things across
>>>>> all of them pretty much without issues.  I did learn that supposedly
>>>>> my old XP Laptop could possibly be upgraded to 10.  But it's just
>>>>> too old to mess with I think. Pretty sure I got it in 2005 so 11 years
>> old.
>>>>> Still works OK as is and so I'm using it that way.  And now as I
>>>>> posted a while back that system is having trouble maintaining it's
>>>>> wifi connection so I think it's loosing it hardware wise too.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Tina Norris Fields
>>>>> <tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:
>>>>>> The closest thing to a work-around is to remove the NVIDIA adapter
>>>>>> from the device manager, and use only the Intel drivers. For some,
>>>>>> that worked. For others, the Wind10 update program still saw the
>>>>>> NVIDIA GeForce 310M as present and incompatible.  I'm definitely
>>>>>> bummed. Of course, it's out of warranty - it was purchased in 2010.
>>>>>> It may have to remain Win7 pro, just as my old Inspiron 9400 is
>>>>>> still WinXP pro. It'll be only the Inspiron 15-R that's currently
>>>>>> running Win 8.1 64-bit that can possibly be moved to Win10.
>>>>>> It's my current main computer. Do I want to risk it on Win10? Got
>>>>>> about a week to decide.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TNF
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tina Norris Fields
>>>>>> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
>>>>>> 231-322-2787
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/21/16 8:21 PM, Gary Kjos wrote:
>>>>>>> The Dell Community forum seems to have a work around though...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3519/t/196371
>>>>>>> 2
>>>>>>> 5
>>>>>>> <http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3519/t/19637
>>>>>>> 1
>>>>>>> 25>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/j63bbgh
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> GK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Tina Norris Fields
>>>>>>> <tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The other day, I decided to go ahead and get the Windows 10
>>>>>>>> switcheroo for my Windows 7 laptop - Dell Vostro 3500.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Oops, here comes the message that unfortunately this computer
>>>>>>>> cannot run Windows 10 because of its monitor - NVIDIA GeForce
>>>>>>>> 310M.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've been looking for updated drivers for that screen, but so far
>>>>>>>> without success. The NVIDIA website said the manufacturer of the
>>>>>>>> computer would want me to use their drivers, but, I'm not finding
>>>>>>>> those drivers on the Dell site.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Has anybody else run into this?; and if so, were you able to
>>>>>>>> resolve it?; and if so, how?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> TNF
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Tina Norris Fields
>>>>>>>> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
>>>>>>>> 231-322-2787
>>>>>>>>
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