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“Hey,” I said, “that explains all of the USB problems I’ve been having of late.” (I was having a lot of problems where I would plug in my Treo or iPod to sync and get a “USB device has malfunctioned” error in Windows.)Īt this point, with a dead video card, a dead motherboard, an obsolete Socket 478 processor, and a CD-RW drive that needed an upgrade anyway, I decided it was time to build a new system.

Whoops… not only had the video card died, but the reason my system had utterly failed, as opposed to just hanging on a regular basis and not booting properly, was that my motherboard (an older Asus) was also dead. He brought it in, plugged it in to my desktop, and lo and behold…nothing. Sounds logical to me.) Since I didn’t really need a fancy video card - just one with DVI that supported 1600×1024 resolution, Russ offered to sell me his old one. First of all, my ancient ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500 video card had a fan that had died, which was probably what had been causing my (more and more frequent) system hangs. Nonetheless, I wanted to get my desktop up and running again, so I hauled it in to Simpli and had Russ take a look at it.Īfter pulling out a spider web and a pile of cat hair, Russ decided that there were several problems that had caused my system to finally bite the dust. It wasn’t a huge deal for me, as all important data had been backed up on my laptop and I’d known this day was coming for quite a while now. One day, I needed to reboot because the system hung hard, and that was that… the system never worked again. It had been having boot problems for a while - so much so that I made sure everything was backed up on a regular basis and ceased turning the darn thing off at night like I had been previously. In January, my desktop computer (a Pentium 4/3GHz) finally bit the dust. In this blog, I’ll explain my rationale behind this decision, what mistakes I’ve made, and what I’m going to do to finally get a working desktop system. It’s now June and the darn thing still isn’t working right. I bought a Shuttle SN26P barebones in January. I got in a bit over my head with my latest hardware purchase.

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Windows XP 64-bit + Shuttle SN26P + Nvidia Nforce4 … it all SUCKS.

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