Building my new computer

by **Do I Know You** on February 17th, 2008, 12:00 am

I write this post to you on a live copy of Knoppix Linux.

A few days ago, the parts for my long awaited new computer arrived. Intel Core 2 Quad, GeForce 8800GTX, and 4GB of DDR2 RAM in a slick case from Coolermaster. Everything went together problem free. However, in my excited stupor, as I was installing my old IDE hard drive (monetary constraints, long story) I heard a little *pink* as I was jamming the IDE cable in. "Hmm, that normally doesn't happen," I thought. Amidst an array of 42 erect golden pins, I saw one bent-double, injured in battle.

So there I was pacing around my bedroom anxiously with the hard drive I rendered useless in my hand, running through a list of all the important files I'd never see again. Suddenly, I got a spark of inspiration. I grabbed my mom's sewing kit and some wire cutters, jammed a sewing pin into the hole that my fallen soldier was assigned to, and clipped off as much as possible. It was worth a shot, I figured.

I kicked my brother off his computer and plugged my disk in as a slave. The five extra minutes it took Windows to load were probably the most nerve racking of my young life. Finally, a little bubble popped up, singing its sweet words to me: "Found new hardware."

Needless to say, I'm currently running Partition Magic on my brother's computer cloning the contents of my old disk onto a brand new hard drive. A brand new SATA hard drive.

by **Colonel Mustard** on February 17th, 2008, 12:16 am

Congratulations.

by **rct2wizard360** on February 17th, 2008, 1:50 am

I've done that with my svideo cable before.

Good fix.
I applaud you.

by **cycamps** on February 17th, 2008, 1:48 pm

I didn't understand that... :lol:

by **BrianPlencner** on February 17th, 2008, 2:21 pm

I did!

At least you did not have to resort to putting your old HD in the freezer.

--Brian

by **w00dland** on February 17th, 2008, 4:27 pm

Good work, DIKY. Very creative way to fix a really crappy problem. I'm proud of you.

Gonna stay with Linux or move to Vista? (Please tell me its the first one)

by **Do I Know You** on February 17th, 2008, 11:28 pm

I can think of several less painful things than running Vista, like getting a lobotomy. I've currently got it loaded up with XP Pro, and I most likely will keep that until SP1 for Vista comes out. Now to search for DirectX 10 hacked for XP :lol:

by **w00dland** on February 18th, 2008, 12:03 am

^Spoken like a true dork. Enjoy your video card.

by **DominatorDude05** on February 18th, 2008, 12:30 am

... I'm lost ... what...?

by **cycamps** on February 18th, 2008, 12:31 am

^My thoughts exactly. :lol:

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