Anyone upgrade a Dell Optiplex 360 to Win7?

Jon Mallory

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I have a business network running 40 or so Dell Optiplex 360 w/ XP.
I ran the Win& upgrade Adviser, and the only thing that shows inconclusive
compatibility it the Broadcom network adapter. Thinking replacing these
cards would be better than replacing the whole machine...
Anyone know of an aftermarket card that will fit these boxes, and is
compatible with Windows 7 ?
 
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Probably any ol' PCI x1 network adapter should work.

I recently did a 75 dell win7 computer deployment, dell forgot to add in the wireless cards we asked for and then shipped them to us separately, So we had to put them all in manually, which wasnt a big deal as we had to do a manual reimaging of all the hard drives anyways and were pulling them out of the case so we had time to drop the new cards in while the case was open and the hdd was being imaged.
This if you don't use a gigabit connection:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166004&clickid=WRawxPxHQTMuUb0T-SSm90TLUkTUceTXuyF0380&iradid=97618&ircid=2106&irpid=79301&nm_mc=AFC-IR&cm_mmc=AFC-IR-_-na-_-na-_-na
this if you do...
Probably any ol' PCI x1 network adapter should work.

I recently did a 75 dell win7 computer deployment, dell forgot to add in the wireless cards we asked for and then shipped them to us separately, So we had to put them all in manually, which wasnt a big deal as we had to do a manual reimaging of all the hard drives anyways and were pulling them out of the case so we had time to drop the new cards in while the case was open and the hdd was being imaged.
This if you don't use a gigabit connection:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166004&clickid=WRawxPxHQTMuUb0T-SSm90TLUkTUceTXuyF0380&iradid=97618&ircid=2106&irpid=79301&nm_mc=AFC-IR&cm_mmc=AFC-IR-_-na-_-na-_-na
this if you do:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166002&clickid=WRawxPxHQTMuUb0T-SSm90TLUkTUceweuyF0380&iradid=97618&ircid=2106&irpid=79301&nm_mc=AFC-IR&cm_mmc=AFC-IR-_-na-_-na-_-na

 
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