The home office (downstairs version) was in need of a new computer so that it run smoothly. "OK," says the home tech support dude (me for those of you who do not know this fact). So, I spent two days piecing together an operational system from three computers on hand and it came to life with a fresh install of Windows 98 (woo-hoo)...
Yes, if I could have I would have installed a more current OS into the beast, but I could not get the BIOS to boot from a CD so I went with what I had at the moment being that I did not wish to spend a great deal of time on this project and it had already been two days with one hard drive failure, one hard drive controller failure, and one power supply that went sssssssssssssstttttttt-POP...
You should by now have some understanding of the situation...
So today the Fourth of September in the Year of our Lord Two-thousand and Eight, the new monitor was delivered - a nice flat panel thing. So I hook it up and low and behold the 10 year old graphics card cannot handle the new device. So I happen to have a nVidia card laying around that has no home. So I decide that maybe I should place this in the newly built ancient computer, but wouldn't ya know it there's is no slot for it to stick it's tiny little fingers into. So we shall built version 3 of the ancient computer - a version that I shall refer to as FrankenPuter for this one started this morning on the front porch awaiting a move to the curb so that it can fill up some landfill far away...
This was no easy task because this was just a case with a motherboard in it. So a power supply and hard drive come out of one, a CD-Rom drive and memory from another, and a floppy drive from a third. And now I have reached a point were I actually turned the monster on and it did not burst into flames and fry my ass (arse for those who wish to use that term
). But I must take a break from the madness because FrankenPuter cannot find the hard drive at this moment and I am a wee bit on the verge of killing things with my bare hands...
So I shall avoid the downstairs for the time being and type this tragic tale of woe...
And so it is on this day in the history of the universe...
Carry on...
This is the Word of the AntiCrust...
Praise be ye who Read the Word for ye are Blessed amongst humans...
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