Old laptop is asus u45jc-a1. New laptop i bought is a sager laptop. My asus laptop has lot of problems. First off, when connected to a monitor, monitor would go to sleep or power save depending on the type of monitor. I had thought this was a monitor issue until i saw this was with several monitors so issue is my laptop. Someone mentioned its the driver but when i downloaded the driver online, computer always had black screen after installing it and i had to system restore it every time.
Besides that, there is a constant beeping sound with the laptop. If i have the laptop on for say 10 hours, iit probably beeps at least 100 times at least an hour. It would beep beep beep every few seconds. You might even hear 20 beeps in 1 minute. Sometimes it doesn’t beat for 30 minutes or so but then go back on beeping. Someone said this either has to do with motherboard or ram.
First off, how would i know which is it? Also i do plan to do a clean resintall as well. Is there a chance if i do the clean reinstall, the beeping problem would go away or absolutely not?
Back to my original question though… i would like to transfer a database from old computer to the new sager one. I mainly play online poker and use this program called holdem manager that has all the hands i played and i could transfer it to the new laptop but doing a backup and restore. Thus i would have that file put it on box.com, then transfer it to the new laptop. I know many ppl who play online poker do this when they do a clean reinstall or buy new computer.
What im a bit worried about is since my asus laptop has lot of problems such as connecting monitor has issues and most importantly the constant beeping which means its a motherboard or ram or driver problem… is there any chance i could transfer some damage to the new laptop this way? The database is going to be huge in terms of gb so i can’t just transfer it with a usb and need to download it to box.com or similar online storage site.
So you’re worried that the old laptop is so defective that it will corrupt the file while it’s transferring it? That very, very unlikely.
But if it will make you feel better, you can try a checksum utility such as WinMD5. Run it on the old laptop and get a checksum for the original file(s). Copy the file(s) to the new laptop. Run the program on the new laptop and it should give the same checksum on the same files. If it does, the transfer is perfectly successful.
Of course, there’s still a chance that the database, right now, on the old laptop, is already corrupt. Then you’d be copying the corrupt database perfectly well to the new laptop. But at least once transferred it will stop deteriorating, and it certainly won’t make the new laptop beep.
My best suggestion would be to pull the drive from the old laptop and use a USB adapter to connect it directly to you new laptop. Totally avoid any hardware problems with the old system.
Or maybe one of your tech geek friends will have one on their workbench.
How big can a database of hands be? If you compress it I doubt it can be that big, even if it were thousands and thousands of hands. Unless it’s like actual realtime video of the hands.
I can easily buy a USB stick of 32 or 64GB, or an external hard drive of one or two terabytes. Wouldn’t it be easier to put the database on one of those and then connect the USB stick or external hard drive to the second computer? I can’t see how it’s necessary to upload the database to box.com because it’s so enormous. (Surely uploading it to box.com is going to be slower than copying it to an external drive.) On the other hand, if the data is important, you probably are right to keep the database in the cloud, or at least to back it up there.