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Upgrading Woes
18 years ago
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Heh... My Computer is out of date... AMD Athlon 2Ghz Barton Core Proc, Asus Socket A Mobo, 200GB of IDE HD Space spread over 3 drives... And a Radeon 9550 256mb 8x AGP Video Card... Dated. Very...
So... I get a SoundBlaster Audigy SE, thinking I'll upgrade a little bit... And what happens? The new sound card fries 2 of my PCI slots over the course of 2 days. -.- At a time when I can not afford to replace the Mobo or Proc. -.- Lovely...
Got the old beast working again, obviously, albeit down by two expansion slots and back to the old as the hills SB Live Value OEM card that I've had for years... And hoping beyond hope that it's JUST the PCI slots that got fried and that there's no other damage to the mobo. @_@
OK... Done. Had to vent. Thank you!
<<UPDATE (done from work)>>
My home computer is dead... The motherboard just took it's time dying after the new soundcard fried the PCI slots. -.-
So... I get a SoundBlaster Audigy SE, thinking I'll upgrade a little bit... And what happens? The new sound card fries 2 of my PCI slots over the course of 2 days. -.- At a time when I can not afford to replace the Mobo or Proc. -.- Lovely...
Got the old beast working again, obviously, albeit down by two expansion slots and back to the old as the hills SB Live Value OEM card that I've had for years... And hoping beyond hope that it's JUST the PCI slots that got fried and that there's no other damage to the mobo. @_@
OK... Done. Had to vent. Thank you!
<<UPDATE (done from work)>>
My home computer is dead... The motherboard just took it's time dying after the new soundcard fried the PCI slots. -.-
but I hope your computer doesn't have any other uh-ohs. How hard will it be to fix? <knows practically nothing about hardware>
other than the harddrive and the case, isn't that pretty much the whole computer?