Holy Crap!

This was all so much simpler when people used to carve stuff in stone, no passwords to remember, and it never crashed.

I have fixed many electronic devices by hitting them with my fist or slamming them on the floor.(like TV flickers and cell phones) But I tried it with my laptop and killed the hard drive...I ain't gonna do that any more:D

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Originally Posted by IC2

Now that we are confused I'll hijack this thread a bit - what kind of trouble am I going to run into if I change out the mother board and CPU** of my current home built desk top? I've seen 57 varieties of potential problems, but nothing that is consistant for my XP OS. I have continued to have lock up problems that I'm tracing back to the USB connection area. Some days, no problems, today, 4 times. I've tried to download updated drivers from MSI, the mobo manufacturer, but to no avail. I'll make a couple more attempts but after Christmas/New Years week so if I 'disappear' for a while........:HMMM::LOL:

** different manufacturers Intel/Asus possibly

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How old is your computer? It might be less expensive to replace the computer.

Terry

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Originally Posted by Bug

How old is your computer? It might be less expensive to replace the computer.

Terry

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The computer is a middle of the road CPU and mobo and home built, with a high end case, power supply and hard drive and is just a year old. The replacement micro ATX mobo and CPU at Newegg is in the $100 to $150 range plus a few hours of my time. I'm most concerned with what it will do to the XP/docs files, but of course can (will) save most files on a Cd, DVD or my exterior hard drive which is really a bit small.