Computer Problems

June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Been busy since Tuesday till today fixing my computer! Being technically inclined and a handyman type, I have to repair my computer myself, satisfying my own ego. Well what went wrong was that the Motherboard failed!!!! Booting my computer was a Touch and Go thing! The biggest problem faced by most repair people are intermmitant faults! Sometimes it works and sometimes not!

I thought it was a simple and straight forward problem, just buy a new mobo and thats it! Sad to say that was the beginning of my nightmare! Basically I needed a simple system, nothing fancy but I was unable to get the Chipset that I needed for a simple system! Reason is that I am still using a Pentium 4 Processor and the Chipset Intel965 had vanished from the market! What was left was the I945 Chipset which is fine but the problem was that it has only Two Ram Slots! I used to equipped my system with 2 GB Ram! Of course I can buy two 2 GB RAM but what am I going to do with my older 1 GB Rams! It looks like the next time round, the I945 will go off the market as well and for all P4 owners, you need to change your Processor to either new Dual Core or Core 2 duo! We are all driven by the Chipset Makers who keep changing Chipsets or introducing new Chipsets every few months!

So I bought the new mobo with the I945 Chipset and set-up my system again, with my old 2 GB Ram. When I started my system, I had to reload Windows XP again because of major hardware change! In the course of reloading the Operating System, I forgot to back-up my data and I lost 2 months of data for being forgetful! Being the technician, I literally dismantled the whole system and gave it a good spring cleaning and you know the amount of dust that accumulated after 5 years in operation! Wiping all the fan blades etc.

Anyway, my consolation is that this year, I am glad that Jay and Dawn will be around on Father's Day. Sharlene and CY sent me a bottle of wine from UK! Now, I wonder what Dawn is giving me from Japan and she is arriving on Sunday evening. Jay bought me a bottle of Cologne! I have to say this Father's Day is the best ever not so much the gifts but having two of my four children around to celebrate with me! It is quite sometime since the last time I have my children with me on Father's Day! I guess will be missing in action again till next week! To all you who are fathers, I wish all of you The Greatest Father's Day Ever this Year! Lets not forget about our Heavenly Father too! Bless The Lord!

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