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Termyn8or -> On PC vacation (3/28/2009 2:08:44 PM)
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For a short spell I won't be on much because my PC took it's final shit the other day. Originally I wasn't going to bother saying anything but I just tried to order a new one on a Saturday and found it difficult. My needs are specific, but not hard to meet. Mainly I want an IDE interface HD so I can slave my old drive to it. I don't care that it is not as fast, I got 70 gigs of stuff there. If I am stuck with SATA I will have to get a big enough drive to copy everything, but then I do not know if my HD is any good.
See Wednesday night it was early but I was tired and fell asleep almost in the chair because I was bone tired. Almost falling out the chair I inadvertently kicked the PC, and it is haunted, so it went through it's knipshits. This is not the first time, and fixing it up until now entailed taking the battery out, then through a bunch of reboots when it says "access violation : keyboard locked, all this crap, it would finally unlock the keyboard, at which time I would go into setup and load defaults. After that it would boot and work for quite some time. Fucker was lulling me into a false sens of security I guess. Well this time when I got done with all this garbage I had to do, it comes up with "NO OS FOUND".
Since the case was open, I may have kicked it in the HD, so I was relieved when it ran Thursday, but then it decided to reboot itself but couldn't. If that HD is bad I lost ALOT. My most recent downloads, some of which were very hard to come by.
So I really don't need all that great a system, and all I need is the box. Money is a bit tight, I mean there is money, but right now things are the way they are and I would like to spend as little as possible. If I could get a bit older board without SATA I could still have the new drive with the OS, the old drive with all the goodies, and the CD burner as well as my region undefined DVD drive.
I'll accept any advice should you care to offer, just bear in mind it may be a few days before I read it. Right now I am at the olman's using his PC, and I don't like doing that and I don't like anyone using mine.
If I am truly stuck buying something that is slightly outside of what I want, oh well, like SATA. I simply do not need it. Also I will not just go to the store. There are so many nags on this thing to regixter or upgrade McAfee's and all that garbage that I just don't need I have been considering just the olman should give up MCE edition and I'll throw Pro Corp on here and fix it once and for all. Friggin restore disk, restores everything it took weeks to get rid of. If I need antivirus I'll get AVG. I'll get whatever Java I need straight from Sun. I'll get my P2P software (again) from olderversion. All I am concerned with is device drivers. That and a good soundcard and I'll be fine.
They just don't understand that I don't need the best money can buy right now, state of the art.
And why does Global put in their catalog "24/7" but then you can't even get through on a Saturday afternoon ? This because they are closed !
So behave folks, try to rabblerouse on your own. It is possible I might not be back until next Saturday. (I heard that sigh of relief)
T
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