The man's side of it!

Last week while I was fiddle-ling around with my computer (something told me not to) I broke the motherboard connector for the SATA controller where the  hard drives get connected. It wouldn't just happen to something cheap or easy to replace (Murphy's Law) of course, especially when we are on a low, low, low budget. In fact we have no budget for computer repairs at all so now I've been SOL for the past week.

Cassie is such a wonderful woman! She was going to give me her computer until I fixed mine! Cassie is the greatest wife in the whole world, planetary system, galaxy, in fact, the entire universe!! (I think it was because of the moping around and the sad face I wore! she must have thought I might do my self an injury!) But I couldn't take her PC, she is as much an addict for the computer as I am. Besides as I told her, "Using someone else's computer is like wearing someone else's (dirty) underwear! It's a very personal thing. Like a tool. A favorite wrench or screwdriver." You all know what I mean, I know you do!

In the meantime, I have been trying to get Cassie's old computer working again! I am almost done getting it all straightened out. There were many bugs in the system causing disk write errors slow performance, crashes etc, etc. There were 2 big problems I had to fix right away, the video card was one and the lan card was the other. Fortunately from all the upgrades and other computer junk around the house and shed I had replacements for these.

I had a heck of a time identifying the faults though, once I did, The rest was even more of a pain in the buttski. I had to replace the parts then with all the errors on the hard drive I had to delete the partition and reinstall a new one and then format and reload the operating system. I have the machine working well now and I am installing some of my needful programs to it.

Because our finances are so bad I can't buy a replacement motherboard at this time. Actually getting an Intel D865 PERL like the one I have is impossible. They fazed them out 3 years ago, so when I do get a motherboard I'll have to get new memory and a new processor and video card as well. When I break stuff I don't do it half way, I do it the best!

Thankfully mine isn't as bas as this!

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:-( What a bummer.... I know what you mean - I hate using Jeff's laptop, I can never find anything and everything feels awkward... by the way, he says try Ebay for a replacement of your old motherboard; you might be able to get a great deal since they are not the "current" tech... Good luck! :-)