Chromosomes

[Biggles50]

Family History Fanatics have the Youtube channel that Gedmatch links too for each tutorial related to each of the various tools available on Gedmatch

Plenty of visual resources there.

https://www.youtube.com/@FamilyHistoryFanatics

[strictlysnoopy]

     

       Thank you

[louisa maud]

All of this is very interesting  but way above my head

Thank you

LM

[phil57]

Thanks for all your replies I really appreciated them.   Keep safe, hoping your computer is good to go now 😁

Unfortunately it seems to be the motherboard, which leaves me with a dilemma. Should I try to find a replacement (it's a rather old spec now, using older type RAM and processor) or do I stump up the money for new MB, processor and memory, and rebuild Trigger's broom into a modern machine?

In the meantime, I have acquired a docking station for my laptop at a good price and am up and running, having loaded my files from backups and connected it to my monitor and other peripherals.

If I can't find a suitable compatible MB, then rebuilding as an updated machine will have to wait a while, being a more expensive option

[strictlysnoopy]

   



     


      O heck, sounds like a whole heap of trouble and headaches, esp with soaring prices 😡.    We stretched our budget and bought a Mac book.  Never regretted the decision.   Had a few issues which the Mac shop repaired for free, as always the guarantee had just expired but little did we know they will repair most faults for free for life of the machine.  They also run classes free for Macs,  cannot fault them, in all ways.

        Just completed my first multi DNA comparison tables, so pleased.  Wish they would carry out this task the other way round,  instead of ref no’s to compare compile a table of all your results using the chromosome you choose.    Also the chromosome table they produced showed my parents were not related when infact they were, although distantly,  I have the paper trail.

       Thanks once again,  you really should publish a book 😁

[phil57]

Thanks once again,  you really should publish a book 😁

I highly recommend "Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA", edited by Graham S. Holton. It's my go to reference book and the contributors are far more knowledgeable than I'll ever be.

[Biggles50]

Thanks for all your replies I really appreciated them.   Keep safe, hoping your computer is good to go now 😁

Unfortunately it seems to be the motherboard, which leaves me with a dilemma. Should I try to find a replacement (it's a rather old spec now, using older type RAM and processor) or do I stump up the money for new MB, processor and memory, and rebuild Trigger's broom into a modern machine?

In the meantime, I have acquired a docking station for my laptop at a good price and am up and running, having loaded my files from backups and connected it to my monitor and other peripherals.

If I can't find a suitable compatible MB, then rebuilding as an updated machine will have to wait a while, being a more expensive option

Out of interest Phil, how old is your PC?

For a number of years now my PC has been totally obsolete, MOBO has a CPU socket that is no longer in use, the CPU is not supported by Windows 11 and the RAM is no longer available.

For some reason my wallet keeps hiding itself!!!!

[phil57]

Out of interest Phil, how old is your PC?

For a number of years now my PC has been totally obsolete, MOBO has a CPU socket that is no longer in use, the CPU is not supported by Windows 11 and the RAM is no longer available.

For some reason my wallet keeps hiding itself!!!!

Which part

I bought a desktop PC around 1994-1995 I think, replacing an Amiga 1200.

It has gradually had components replaced over time, but I would guess around 2010 that none of the original components remained, so I suppose it could be considered a different machine from that point on.

It has a Gigabyte ATX/AM3 motherboard with an AMD Phenom II CPU, both bought in October 2011, along with two 1TB HDDs.

About 18 months ago, I moved the system partitions onto a 1TB SSD and doubled the memory to 32GB as DDR3 DIMMs had become quite cheap. It gained quite a performance boost from that, as it had become rather sluggish.

Although the CPU isn't on Microsoft's Win 11 list, the readiness checker doesn't complain about it, but the insurmountable problem is the lack of a TPM module, and the inability to install one that meets the requirements.

Not that I'm in any rush to "upgrade" to Win 11, I've only been using Win 10 as my primary OS for about a year!

Using my laptop (Lenovo T450/Win 10/Intel i5) in a docking station has made me realise that I can get along quite happily with a moderately powered PC. It also has an SSD though, which again seems to be the best performance upgrade for the money, compared to the speed of HDDs. Samsung 1TB SSDs can be had for less than £60 now.

Anyway, I managed to locate a suitable AM3/DDR3 motherboard today, with the required number of SATA and USB headers, so hopefully it will be up and running again before long.

My wallet generally behaves very similarly to yours

[strictlysnoopy]

   

     Thank you, much appreciated.