"Jabberwocky"
24-10-2005, 06:29 PM
My PC borked itself a while back. I came back to find it frozen and from then on it would crash really early on in the boot up sequence (sometimes after telling me that it had had a improper shutdown and asking if I wanted to start in safe mode etc and sometimes not even getting that far).
I am pretty sure that it overheated (it was left on all the time and had a crap fan) so I opened it up and low and behold discovered that one of the transistor looking things on the motherboard had burnt out. Rather than try and fix it my parents decided that they may as well just buy a new PC so thats what they did.
Being a scavenger I however kept all the bits and bobs and having moved out now need a PC. So I gamely went down and bought a new motherboard and plugged all the other bits back in however the problem was still there suggesting a problem with the hard drive/windows XP too(???)
For some annoying reason I seem to have lost all the software discs that came with the PC so I took the motherboard back, plugged my hard drive into a friends PC (as a slave drive) and rescued all the files etc I wanted to keep just in case.
So I am now a proud owner of a Monitor, keboared, mouse, DVD/cd player/writer, network card, USB scokets, RAM and a processor which all work fine, but no motherboard and a hard driver which works fine but only as a slave.
Anyway to bring this ramble to a end, I need a PC and want to know what I should do. The PC was fast enough for my needs before it bust (the only thing I would really want to add to it is a wireless network card).
So is it just a case of buying a new copy windows XP and a motherboard? or is it more complicated than that? I dont have any software for example.
or
Would it be better/safer to buy a complete new base unit then add the bits I have to it in order to cut costs/improve it? Remember the hard drive works fine as a slave but again I have no software.
or
should I stop being such a tight arse and just buy a new PC?
Anyway if you could offer any advice I would be a happy man :)
I am pretty sure that it overheated (it was left on all the time and had a crap fan) so I opened it up and low and behold discovered that one of the transistor looking things on the motherboard had burnt out. Rather than try and fix it my parents decided that they may as well just buy a new PC so thats what they did.
Being a scavenger I however kept all the bits and bobs and having moved out now need a PC. So I gamely went down and bought a new motherboard and plugged all the other bits back in however the problem was still there suggesting a problem with the hard drive/windows XP too(???)
For some annoying reason I seem to have lost all the software discs that came with the PC so I took the motherboard back, plugged my hard drive into a friends PC (as a slave drive) and rescued all the files etc I wanted to keep just in case.
So I am now a proud owner of a Monitor, keboared, mouse, DVD/cd player/writer, network card, USB scokets, RAM and a processor which all work fine, but no motherboard and a hard driver which works fine but only as a slave.
Anyway to bring this ramble to a end, I need a PC and want to know what I should do. The PC was fast enough for my needs before it bust (the only thing I would really want to add to it is a wireless network card).
So is it just a case of buying a new copy windows XP and a motherboard? or is it more complicated than that? I dont have any software for example.
or
Would it be better/safer to buy a complete new base unit then add the bits I have to it in order to cut costs/improve it? Remember the hard drive works fine as a slave but again I have no software.
or
should I stop being such a tight arse and just buy a new PC?
Anyway if you could offer any advice I would be a happy man :)