Gees, my computer is dying. It didn't start out very well. When I received it, the fan had fallen off of the CPU during shipping, so I had to send it back to get that fixed (there were small dents in the CPU). Everything went fine for a couple of months, then one of my friends came over and blew it up. My video card, motherboard and ram had to be replaced. I had a friend do the repair (hardware and I are not friends) and he replaced my Abit NVidia based mother board with a Gigabyte board. The onboard sound isn't as good as NVidia's and it kept killing WarCraft III during online play. So, today I turned off the onboard sound and put in a SoundBlaster Live! Now WinAmp starts chirping whenever the CPU gets loaded and WarCraft just died again. I will probably have to reinstall XP... again. I suspect that it is a driver issue, but I hate having to reinstall everything only to find out that it is yet another hardware component gone bad. Note to self, next time you want to save money and build your own system.... Don't.
Posted by carl at May 4, 2003 03:30 AM
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