Why do these things always happen to me?
Mar 7th, 2008 by Peter
My graphics card started acting up the other day, so decided to do something about it and bought a new one before I killed the entire PC.
Of course it wouldn’t work with my mainboard (an AsRock VSTA “transition” board with both AGP and PCI-E ports). So I had to give up and buy a new one too. Not exactly what we needed now that we just survived the crazy expense of January including a new bed at 7000DKR (about 1400USD).
What sucked the most is that my new Mainboard does not support internal raid, but only external. I never heard of this, and therefore didn’t spot that one before I tried to reinstall my raid disks. So now I’m raidless which sucks.
So my system is now this:
- Core 2 Duo 2.1Ghz (overclocked to 2.4Ghz)
- 2GB DDRII5400 ram
- 2 x 80Gb Seagate 7200 hard disks
- 2 x 160Gb Maxtor 7200 hard disks
- MSI 8800GT 512Mb OC from factory
- 21″ Samsung CRT monitor
Cool enough to get new and up-to-date gear, but rather wouldn’t have spend the doe yet.