Welcome to the thoughts and photos of FLYDDW. Texas, New Jersey, and Arizona living.

Just a little boring blog today.

My desktop computer is back online!  It's only been 6 months since it last seen daylight.  Bunches of stupid motherboards (ECS and Gigabyte) and dying cpu's (478 pin intel 3.06 ghz,) has separated my from my desktop "standard" computer.  I say standard because I don't game and I don't run things that require the latest and greatest.  I am not running 8 gigs of memory, only 512meg (with a recent bump to 1gig).

But alas, it was down since before Christmas, where I literally tried all kinds of transplants, resuscitations, defib's - you name it - to keep the system running.  I changed motherboards, coolers, cpus, memory, video cards, sound cards - and I still had to place a "Time of Death" certificate on the toe-tag.

So, it sat on the shelf, till finances lined up to get a decent replacement.  Meanwhile, a slower, smaller laptop took it's place as the "main" computer.  Small hard drive, no games ports - just enough stuff to get by.  For 6 months.

I friend turned me on to a AMD motherboard/CPU combo from NewEgg for $97 shipped. It is a 6150BK8MC board with 3400+ cpu.  Built-in sound, video, etc.

After brushing the cobwebs off the old "case" of dead computer, and applying another attempt at transplanting, I finally was able to breathe some life back inside.

So, after 3 days of burn-in, it seems to be stable, and I've actually "used" it burn some DVD - just a test. 

So far so good.  Hope it stays this way for at least a year!  Maybe then I'll get something better.