Over the weekend I performed some surgery. And it was not pretty. We lost the motherboard and processor and video card in our little “accident”. salvageable out of the wreckage - 2 of the 3 hard drives, all the RAM (which I was sure this would be shot) , the CD Burner and the DVD burner. About a 50% loss. At least the data was in tact — well most of it. I lost 2 years worth of email from PRIOR to June of this year. But at this point my machine is a much different beast. I still need to spend some serious time getting the software back in place and the other odds and ends back in place. PLUS I need to get all the mess created off the desk. UGH. But the machine is running. NOW it is a P4 3.2 ghz machine with 1.5 GB of ram. Not too shabby. What is funny is that the only video card I had was a 16mb PCI card. LOL all that tech and I have a 10 year old video card in it. They just don’t make them like that any more.

Now onto getting a new processor MB and video card. YES what I have will fly for now. BUT since this happened might as well look into new stuff. First, the video card - the rest is muscular enough to fly.

BTW - in case you are wondering “This was EXTRA stuff”. Yes - it was my Son’s PC. WOW - you took your kid’s PC - that is pretty heartless. Well, not really - it had been down with a corrupted install of Win 98 for about 2 months. I will build him a new box out of the 1.6ghz Duron box I have. It will be plenty powerful for his needs. I am not a bad guy people.