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Gigabyte BIOSes are typically named in this fashion:
F4, F5, F6, etc.
"v6.00" may mean F6 or maybe not. Do you show a date for the BIOS? F6 is dated 12/28/08. The only newer BIOS is F7E, which is a beta BIOS, with no indication it solves any keyboard issues. F7E is dated 11/18/09.
Was uncle's PC bought from an OEM such as Dell or HP? Does it have a sticker on it containing a 25 character Product Key in this format:
xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
Uncle's PC probably shipped with Windows XP or Vista. Did it ever have Windows 7 on it?
OK. It's F5 BIOS. F6 and F7E are newer.
Are you absolutely unable to get his Windows 7 Product Key?
Do you know for a fact Windows 7 is not on it right now, in some other partition?
Get the CPU info on both machines.
Actually, I can just give you the service tag right? It's an OEM from Dell. An inspiron 530. All factory hardware but for the added graphics card and added 2gb of RAM.
Inspiron 530 is probably an Intel Core 2 Duo, circa 2006 or 2007 and will likely blow the doors off uncle's AMD.
But need to confirm CPU in your specific machine. I know some Inspiron 530s had quad-core E6600 processors.
Processor for my computer is a "Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz