Money down the drain

Last week was rather frustrating. I decided I would upgrade some stuff on our PC – I brought some new RAM and that went well. I brought a faster CPU 2nd hand and that did not go well. I installed the CPU and things were running great, but then I was playing around with the BIOS to ensure everything was going right and things went down hill from there – the PC would no longer start.
I brought a new motherboard and since I am writing this on our PC obviously things worked out, but it took 6 hours to find a CPU and motherboard jumper combination to work!

I have a few ideas on what is what now, but since it is all going I am not going to test these theories – better a working computer than not. Maybe I will stick to pre-built PCs from here on in for our main PC and have a separate development/play PC… Or with a good investment in hardware just look at virtual machines.

31. March 2007 »

Written by Cameron » 31. March 2007 » Tagged as