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It lives!
My new computer is up and running. And its gorgeous.
It was hard to get running though. Friday night,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lantyssa was putting the computer together for me (I helped a little bit). A lot of the technology has changed since I got the other computer so she helped me out a lot. :D Everything got put together, and we tried to start her up. And it whined about not having power to the video card. It was late by the time we were close to start up, and we kinda forgot about it.
But the hard drive wouldn't detect, and when it did, it was very slow about it. After two blue screen errors in Windows' setup, we left it for the night.
On Saturday morning, Dad was very kind in giving me some money to find a new hard drive. We hit Microcenter to look for a new hard drive under $60, and luckily there was a sale that I could use. So new hard drive in the tower, we started it up again. It was instantly detected the new hard drive and started Windows setup just fine.
Now its all loaded up and I'm just transferring the data from the old machine to the new one. Which will take a while, and it might not all fit since the new hard drive is smaller than the failed hard drive. But I'll send in an RMA for the failed one, and NewEgg should send me another one.
I'm on a borrowed video card right now, but it looks like I can order it in a week or so, so after that's in, and the failed hard drive replaced, my computer upgrade should be complete. Awesome.
It was hard to get running though. Friday night,
lantyssa was putting the computer together for me (I helped a little bit). A lot of the technology has changed since I got the other computer so she helped me out a lot. :D Everything got put together, and we tried to start her up. And it whined about not having power to the video card. It was late by the time we were close to start up, and we kinda forgot about it. But the hard drive wouldn't detect, and when it did, it was very slow about it. After two blue screen errors in Windows' setup, we left it for the night.
On Saturday morning, Dad was very kind in giving me some money to find a new hard drive. We hit Microcenter to look for a new hard drive under $60, and luckily there was a sale that I could use. So new hard drive in the tower, we started it up again. It was instantly detected the new hard drive and started Windows setup just fine.
Now its all loaded up and I'm just transferring the data from the old machine to the new one. Which will take a while, and it might not all fit since the new hard drive is smaller than the failed hard drive. But I'll send in an RMA for the failed one, and NewEgg should send me another one.
I'm on a borrowed video card right now, but it looks like I can order it in a week or so, so after that's in, and the failed hard drive replaced, my computer upgrade should be complete. Awesome.