I’ve had a couple of frustrating days troubleshooting my pc. The first sign yesterday, was the fact it would lock up at random, and require a hard reboot. I scanned for viruses, spyware, etc. No luck.
I thought, time to refresh C drive. I copied e-mail stuff and a few files to my big partition, and proceeded to format and re-install Windows XP. During the installation, it froze up again. 3 seperate re-installs. I pulled all the cards out, except the video and tried again. Froze again. Shit. I took my crippled pc to Cary (PC Wizard) and he noticed 5 capacitors on the motherboard that had cracked and leaked out. He determined this was the fault. Now, I could order the capacitors and have Cary replace them, but, I am in dier need of an upgrade. Only mobo, cpu and ram required, and prices on those items are very reasonable now. I will upgrade, now that I seen Doom 3 running on Thomas’s pc. WOW.
Side note: I do have 3 other pc’s in the house to keep me posting. :)
4 responses so far ↓
1 Guinevere // Aug 10, 2004 at 7:08 pm
Wohoo! New PC! Sucks your old one died, but if it gave you a reason to get a Doom 3 box, all the better :D
2 Brad // Aug 10, 2004 at 9:13 pm
I’m also thinking of an upgrade Al. What direction are you taking? Barton 2500 with the Asus mobo? 1/2 gig Ram? That’s probably whta I’ll be doing.
3 Big Al // Aug 10, 2004 at 9:46 pm
Yup, the Barton 2500, ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE and 2 sticks of OCZ DDR400 256mb. That should tie me over for awhile. :)
4 david // Aug 11, 2004 at 4:52 pm
Im thinking of upgrading also,
256 meg of ram doesn’t cut it anymore.
all my intern stuff as got to go soon.
mobo, cpu, ram, vid card, sound card, and a 200 gig wouldn’t hurt.
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