Right now my home PC which I depend on for some day job work and general coding fun, is in pieces under my desk… <\3 As near as I can tell, the old Athlon XP finally gave up the ghost resulting in many crashes to the beeps of death. Little did I know that my mourning was to be long and painful.
Generally, I've always liked doing upgrades and moving on to something better. But this time, the ugliness that is tech, sometimes, bit me squarely in the ass. Right now I'm working on my 3rd motherboard and 2nd power supply. I haven't thrown the Pentium D 805 over the side just yet, but it may be next (more about the 805). Part of the problem I ran into was that while I was happy with my old system, the world moved on by and even the m*f*n power supply specs changed. This is what I think caused the no POST problem with the first two boards I tried. Unfortunately, nothing in the sparse documentation made mention of the power supply. Later I learned that I would need an ATX 12V power supply, what I didn’t know though was I would need a ATX 12V version 2.0 and not the version 1.3 I’d just brought home! I’ve been so frustrated with this whole component compatibility and quality issue, that this may be the last box I build myself. I just don’t have the time for this sort of thing anymore!
It is now many miles and many days later that I now have what I think is the right power supply and hopefully I can get my rig back up sooner rather than later. WillowBrow’s PC and trackball just do not get along with me and the kids computer isn’t any better. So me and my XBox 360 have been having a little more quality time than usual lately! Still, I really want to get back to my virtual home.
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