Well, a while ago a friend of mine sent me a video card to put into my desktop to better handle programs like Second Life but the fan wasn't all that good. I had accepted it solely because it's better than not trying anything. I think it was two days after agreeing. I had tried it out and it worked, significantly better but it sounded really horrid because of the fan, but I was told of this problem so I kinda had to deal with it until I could replace it. I had ordered a new replacement fan, and before it had come I had chosen to remove the old fan and clean around the GPU and the heatsink. Couple days later, I had gotten the fan and no sooner did I received it I had installed it onto the video card. However for some reason when I ran the card in the computer, it wouldn't display anything. I knew the card isn't causing any problems with the computer because I could hear that the computer was booting up as it normally does through my speakers. I think I might have shorted the thing while I was cleaning around the GPU.

On the bright side, this bad stuff got me looking online for a new video card and I had come across a pretty decent one that's a little better than the one provided by my friend. The one my friend gave me was an evga nVidia GeForce 7600GS 256MB PCI-E x16, and the one I had found is an MSI nVidia GeForce 8400GS 512MB PCI-E x16 (in new condition) with a final cost of USD45.45 (with shipping and no tax). Hopefully I will receive this card anytime between Tuesday and Thursday... hopefully. But I'm looking on the plus side right now and when I get the card it should run much better than the card provided by my friend and significantly better than the stock integrated card.

On another note, my stock laptop hard drive is completely shot. Totally inaccessible, and no longer reformat-able which is... kinda odd, but I guess not when considering when I listen to the thing I hear no arm reading data on the discs. Plus side I had bought a hard drive from Best Buy to replace my old one. Now I have more space than before (about 3.2 times more). Sad thing though was after a fresh reformat I had some kind of virus that stopped me from updating my computer though Windows Update (opened like a million windows and shut off my automatic updates... automatically). Reformatted again and so far things are looking as if they're okay. Hopefully I'll have no more problems for a while now. I'll probably jinx myself with that being said...

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