Computer Help

[cetasdolphin]

To all those that read this, I am in a bit of a bind and need some help. After a dismal attempt at trying to build my own PC for the past 2 years (getting the parts for such around xmas time as it were) I am basically turning in the towel for it. My current rig while it is decent, is such a mishmash of parts that the last time I took it to the

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[slothpuck]

Hmm...well like others have said the bits shouldn't rea2lly be incompatible or they either would do nothing or maybe not even fit into one another. Be careful about buying a branded PC though -- often they will stiff you over prices for repair, and you might not always be able to open up the PC (or bye bye warranty x.x!).

Some of your system spec is better than mine, btw!

My main system (other systems I have are older than this) ;
64-Bit AMD CPU @ 2Ghz
PCIe Video (nVidia Geforce 6200)
1GB Ram
2 Hard drives - 1x60GB (SATA), 1x20GB (IDE). IDE drive is removable.
(Also have 1x750GB USB HDD External).
Sound blaster live 256 PCI (The original SB Live card from years ago!)
DVD Writer
PCI Wireless network card

From what you've described the problems almost sound like bad software or maybe even bad memory (dud memory will always cause all kinds of weird and random problems, seen it before). Even worse if it's intermittent.

IHMO apart from supporting different CPUs or cards there's not *all* that much difference in motherboards these days. Not like the old QDI motherboards that if you put the clear CMOS jumper on and switched on the PC you blew the motherboard up(!).

If you can try to get all new bits 'n' pieces and try again :) . Also branded PCs tend to have *lots* of junk installed.

SP