BetaONE will rise again!


Reply
  #1  
Old 27th Feb 06, 12:34 AM
tubebuoy's Avatar
tubebuoy tubebuoy is offline
Chopped Liver
 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 851
tubebuoy is on a distinguished road
New (used) PC!
WooHoo!

Just over a week ago I was given a BIG BLUE cass, a SOYO mobo, a Turbolink 450W PSU, an S3 Graphics Savage 3D card, 256K ram, and a P4 2.2G cpu. I know this is kids stuff for most of you but it replaced my 1.1meg AMD "T-bird".

It took me 6 hours to figure out that you need to remove the M/SL/CS jumpers to get the freak to boot (I didn't get an owners manual with it).

Then I found out a day later I had a hardware conflict with the graphix card. When I left it alone for an hour or so and the monitor went into "hibernate" I would wiggle the moose to wake it up and all I saw were black & white bars!!!



So I call the geek that gave it to me (our company IT dweeb) and MADE him give me a new graphix card and another 512meg of ram (PC 2100?!?!?). Now we're talkin'! All the hardware bugs are gone. It didn't come with an HD but I had a 'junker' at work to play with and wanted to upgrade my old WD 40G anyway. So I slapped a spankin' new WD Caviar SE 250G ($70 at Best Buy NO REBATES!!) in it and, well...




I'm one happy assed foo!



}---
Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 01:21 AM.


Design by Vjacheslav Trushkin for phpBBStyles.com.
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.5
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.