I used to love messing about with computers. Spent many hours reading computer magazines, the letters page is most informative. But after after many years working with them, getting to grips with whatevers new in terms of fitting or fiddles, I can honestly say I hate the buggers now. Can't stand to open the box and fast losing the will to use them at all, even surfing has gone out the window as it's so boring to me.
Thing is I'm tight so I'll not pay someone to do what I can do myself and that why I decided to do the latest upgrade and why I find myself more annoyed then ever.
It's all so complicated now with Sata1 & sata2, ATX, DDR1 -2, PCI, AGP E-PCI for fuck sake ! and that's before you get on to processors and speeeds. I was so swomped with all that could go wrong that I spent an whole day overlooking the simple mistake I made that stops my PC booting up after all the new bizz bangs had been screwed in place.
Was it the PSU (that power supply to the sensable), was it strong enough ?, was it the DDR ? should it be DRR2 ? or perhaps it was just flaky. Then again it could be the Video Card. It might say it takes AGP or E_PCI but it also has a warning that a 3.3volt card could damage the motherboard. My card seems 1.3v but then again my research investing why this bugger wouldn't boot led me to the info that some 3.3v card where made to look like 1.3v cards. Then at the back of my mind was that I was't unto date and anyone of the old parts I was re-using might not work with this new mainboard.
Someone once said "don't put down to malise what you can put down to stupidity" I should have followed that advice while looking into why this bugger wouldn't start because in the end it was down the the mainboard shorting against an unused spacer stud under it !!
