New computer up and running
 

For those that remember me asking about my old computer taking a shit on me (no not literally) a couple weeks ago, I just ended up replacing it with something a little bit nicer. My cousin and I tried to resurrect the old Compaq by addinig the necessary memory to run XP. We got through 75% of the install and it froze up. Tried several more times still without any luck. So I opted to put 98 back on it for the time being and it wouldn't even run the restore disk to return itself back to normal. So after going crazy without a computer, I picked one up at a place called the 'Box Shop' right off of University by Arby's. It's a neat little shop with killer deals. I got a complete cpu minus hard drives for $250. It's 1.7GHz AMD processor with 256mb DDRRAM and a few other decent goodies. So far it's been 10X's better! Hopefully no more shitty problems.

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General nanosystems is another great computer place off of university. I got my nice case with PS, MSI Motherboard, AMD xp 2800+ (i think it might be higher because i havent looked in a while) with the barton core, 512 DDR ram, 52x CD writer, ATI 256ddr graphics card, NIC card, and the 120 GB hard drive for like $700 about a year ago.
A week ago i got my Free 19" monitor from the World Cyber Games qualifiers. so now i have my Dual monitor setup. WOOT.

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Yea I built mine with parts from Nano and Microcenter. AMD 2600 XP 1gig ram blah blah. It runs quite nicely.

250 is a good deal for that computer though. Why didnt you just reformat the hardrive of your old box and reinstall 98?

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Since when did porn surfing qualify?

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That's what we tried doing after we couldn't get XP to install, but the damn thing still wouldn't even go through the restore disk. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense I know, but it just wouldn't work. Besides that thing was 5 years old and it's not the first time I had dramatic problems with it, so it was time.

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new computer stuff roxors! I picked up a 19" Flat scren Trinitron monitor for $75 at the super computer sale. Real easy to get ripped of there though.

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Turn up the boost on that new proc & see what it'll do! er...overclock it I mean...get the most out of your money!

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Dont use the restore disk. You should just boot to a disk and then do a C: and then a format c:, type Y and then let her rip. Then boot to a the 98 cd and it should work. Oh well or just throw it in a firepit :) and have fun with the new one.