Upgrade time
26 October 2007 12:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glenatronToday is not going according to plan. I switched my computer on, it stopped almost immediately with an error message about the A drive.
Dead bios. Proper dead. Changed the battery, changed the bios chip, nothing. Dead motherboard.
The problem being that nobody makes Socket 754 motherboards any more and if they did there would be no point spending almost exactly the same amount of money to get something that was average three years ago than getting something better now. At which point I need to get a new processor and probably a new graphics card as mine is old and AGP.
Works out expensive and annoying.
Still, hopefully my hard drives have endured and at least, unlike last time this happened, I don't have an OEM copy of Windows so I should be able to redo my activation stuff...
Dead bios. Proper dead. Changed the battery, changed the bios chip, nothing. Dead motherboard.
The problem being that nobody makes Socket 754 motherboards any more and if they did there would be no point spending almost exactly the same amount of money to get something that was average three years ago than getting something better now. At which point I need to get a new processor and probably a new graphics card as mine is old and AGP.
Works out expensive and annoying.
Still, hopefully my hard drives have endured and at least, unlike last time this happened, I don't have an OEM copy of Windows so I should be able to redo my activation stuff...