Well, I am WAY behind on my blog reading, and it'll probably take me two days to catch up, so if you haven't seen my dainty footprints at your blog recently fear not, I shall be stopping by. I'm also still trying to get my computer back into a livable condition....one of the things PK did was install a 10GB hard drive to replace my near-full 4 GB, and he changed the partitions so most (though thankfully not all) of my desktop shortcuts are pointing to the wrong drive... I had a hissy fit last night when I couldn't get Mega Solitare to load by clicking on the icon....I had to search high and low to find it and give it a new shortcut. I probably have about 20 shortcuts I'm going to have to do that for. Oh, joy.
Anyway, as promised, here's what Dr. Frankenstein my brother did to my PC:
Took out the 2X CD-ROM and replaced it with a 40X CD-ROM.
Upgraded the RAM from 128MB to 256MB.
"Upgraded" the OS from Windows 95 to Windows ME (I'm still not sure I can live with this--I really liked Win 95, preferring to keep it when Win 98 came out...).
Replaced the 4GB hard drive with a 10GB one.
Took out the 2MB PCI video card and replaced it with a 8MB AGP 4X one. (I have no idea. All I know is the fonts look funny now--but that could be the ME).
Took out the ISA sound card and put in a 16bit Soundblaster audio card.
Replaced the bad power suppy fan; discovered that the CPU fan was bad, too, and also replaced that.
It took him about 14 hours to do all this, including trips to the store for parts. He was going to bill me $700 for his labor, but I talked him into settling for being reimbursed for the stuff he didn't have laying around the garage....
So now my started-life-as-a-used-486 seems to have no remaining original components. Cool.
Frankenstein computer? Frankenputer?
Posted by: Tiffany at January 12, 2004 04:05 PM"My grandfather's axe."
As in: This is my grandfather's axe. We've replaced the handle four times, and the head once, but this is my grandfather's axe.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 12, 2004 10:06 PM:D
Posted by: Tuning Spork at January 12, 2004 11:15 PMWell, save some time and skip Bloviating Inanities. That bastard Bill has disappeared and I'm havin to carry the place on my frikkin back.
Yeah, ME and IE suck. See if Netscape will work.
Posted by: Wind Rider at January 13, 2004 12:44 AMI have used MS-DOS, Windows 3.0, 95, 98, Me, 2000, and XP. If you have trouble with Me (which many have) you might consider getting 2000. Of all the OSs Microsoft has made, I think it's the best by far. I got rid of XP because 2000 is the superior product. It will run everything that ran on 95 and 98 -- but much FASTER -- plus it doesn't invade your privacy (and demand "signed drivers") like XP does. Windows 2000 is one of the few remaining Microsoft loopholes -- and I am surprised it isn't illegal!
I admire your tenacity in sticking with your original computer.
GOOD LUCK!
Posted by: Eric Scheie at January 13, 2004 06:29 PMMS has not made a decent operatin' system since Win 3.11. Since then, they have gotten worse and worse with each generation. I was gonna blog about you gettin' stuck with a computer loaded with ME but decided ya already been 'barrassed enough.
Posted by: Tiger at January 13, 2004 09:16 PMWell, I talked to my brother about the consenus on ME and he told me he took out all the sucky stuff before he put it on my computer. So I guess he still loves me after all....
Posted by: Susie at January 14, 2004 06:07 AMI'm still happy and content with win98. It's even gotten safer now as most of the recent viruses only affected win2K and above! Sure, it requires a reboot 3-5 times a week, but it's been stable for me.
Posted by: Clancy at January 20, 2004 09:34 AM