It’s been a long time since I’ve written something on my own site. I still don’t know what type of stuff I should put here. I know… I’ll write about my PC issues… LOL
So, New Years Day I went out to Fry’s Electronics to buy some new parts for my computers. Let me take a step back, I have two computers. The first is one that I built from practically scratch about 4 years ago (whoa). Hose helped me put it together. Brand new case, new monitor, new motherboard, Core 2 Duo processor, couple Gigs of RAM, eventually a new DVD burner, Multi-card reader, graphic card, the basics. But that was 4 years ago. 3 years before that I had gotten a Sony Vaio, running on a Pentium 4 I think. Gave the Vaio away to my sister after I built the new one. After 3 years, realized they weren’t evening using it, so I asked for it back. It still ran really good.
Then I bought my brother a laptop for Christmas. It was running a Core 2 Duo! Like my newest PC I built! WTF? Really? Laptops as strong as something I made?! I wasn’t having it. So I put some thought into it. Time to rebuild. Figured I can get a new motherboard and a Core 2 Quad. And then maybe another new motherboard that would fit the Vaio and the Core 2 Quad, so it’s not going to waste. So thats what I did. New Quad Core Q8400 and two new motherboards that would fit the Duo or the Quad. Perfect. Now casting would be a lot easier and I’d feel up to date. And I’ll still have a living memory of the first PC I built inside my first good PC.
So what happens? One of the first motherboards, the big one for the Quad, didn’t wanna work. Nothing would show up on the screen. Checked over and over. Nothing. I guess it was dead on arrival. Just to be sure I tried the Quad in the small motherboard I bought for the Vaio. Worked perfectly! So it wasn’t the Processor. So I took the big motherboard back. “On to the next one”. Bought another brand motherboard, still sealed, unlike the last which was probably the problem. And you know what, I got a picture on the screen! But Windows wouldn’t load. It was weird. Nothing in the Bios. So I did some research. Turns out that motherboard wasn’t compatible with a Q8400, but was with a E8400… WTF?! BUT if you flashed and updated the Bios it would work. So I attempted to try. But then for some reason I couldn’t get anything to appear on screen again. So I couldn’t flash the Bios. Whhhhyyyy!? So I returned that one yet again. After 4 days with out a PC, I went ahead and rebuilt the big PC, with the Duo. The Vaio got all the new parts, new motherboard and Quad processor.
So I’m still in that situation. No Quad in the big main PC. Can’t seem to find a motherboard I like.
Now I’m thinking… maybe I should buy another motherboard and processor… One of those new i7′s or something. It’s hard to find a good LGA775 Quad Core Q8400 motherboard. Or whatever is the next step up from a Quad. Something easier to find.
Ahhhh… feels good to finally get that out of my head. LOL