My home-built AMD Duron/900 crashed again this week, self-immolating Tuesday night for reasons known only to Win98SE. I've struggled for 3 days now trying to get it to acknowledge that yes, there indeed is a network card plugged in to the motherboard; yes, PaintShop Pro is indeed installed; yes, the scanner is still there, it hasn't gone out into the backyard. Enough, already.
I just ordered a Dell Dimension 4600 P4, 80GB hard drive, CD/CD-RW, XP Pro, 128MB GeForce video. As many bells and whistles as I thought I might want. I could have ordered a DVD, but the main thing I wanted was dual drives installed, because for some reason I've never been able to get the old system to run with more than one CD drive. I can replace the 48X CD with a DVD next time Best Buy has a big Sunday rebate.
I can't wait to get home and show the email receipt to the old computer.
Posted by hboswell at April 30, 2004 01:59 PM | TrackBack