Why not just a new motherboard and new stick of memory? Replace the old one and stick in the new one, keep the same video card, hard drive, modem, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and CD/CDRW drives.
Well, I don't really know, I think it had something to do with not liking the case, but I'm not sure. Maybe he is gonna use the case, I'm not sure about that either. He said he was gonne BUILD me a new system, so I'm not sure what that means.
Obviously, I would keep the brand new keyboard, modem, monitor, and Microsoft mouse, but I think he might upgrade the video card, I don't know. He said it would be NEW and it would have newer hardware and run XP Business version because it is more stable. If the CD and CD rewritable drives are compatible, I'm sure he'll use those in the new one too. He said the Hard Drive isn't big enough to hold XP and everything else, It's only a 4.1 gig Hard Drive. As for the memory, not sure if the new memory we just bought is compatible either. He said something about the memory changing types as the computers get newer. We have SIMs.
I mean a decent motherboard and CPU with some new memory shouldn't cost any more than a couple hundred dollars unless you are going with the best CPU and motherboard money can buy. Try an AMD motherboard and CPU, they cost less. If not, get a low end Pentium 4 with DDR memory.
I'll keep all that in mind. He couldn't read in here tonight, or anywhere else, for that matter. He has to be AT WORK at 5 am tomorrow, because they are installing some program he helped write. So they want him RIGHT there in case anything goes awry. So he went to bed tonight, by 8:00 p.m. and has to get up at 2:30.
He'll read in here over the weekend and maybe I can explain more. He didn't elaborate earlier, just said, something along the line of [If Andrei is really getting that bad, I'll just have to go into debt and build you a new system and make him a Linux box.] I don't have the exact quote, but that was the idea.
Try the ABit line of motherboards, or whatever Zubin reconmends. I never had this problem with ABit motherboards.
Thanks for the recommendation. :)
But if enough hardware changes in Andrei, he still can't be Andrei, so I'll still need a new name, probably. I usually consider the brain (CPU) to be the personality of the computer. Guess we'll see.
Thanks for the information, and like I said, he'll read all this over the weekend. He barely had time to read my email, eat dinner and get to bed tonight.
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