My name is Jenn, and I'm a 27 year old married and babied chick. In addition to a husband, a seven year old daughter, and a five year old autistic son, I also have four cats, three hermit crabs, two frogs, a few fish, and one snorty little Pug. I work from home doing a variety of writing and even some web design. I love blogging, digital photography and web design.
A few weeks ago my husband had the fun task of taking apart and rearranging the insides of four desktop computer towers at once. The patients are as follows:
Mom’s computer (HP a867c) — aka Mom PC
Grandpop’s computer (HP a847c) — aka Donor PC (because we’ve been making use of some of its parts already)
My computer (HP a867c) — Jenn’s PC
Dan’s P.O.S. dead computer — P.O.S
My mom gave us her tower because her soundcard died, so we thought we could simply take her hard drive, external video card (necessary for Windows 7′s “pretty shit”, as Jason calls it), power supply, and memory sticks and plug them into my grandfather’s computer. She’d take a step down in terms of processor speed, but the step was just a teensy one, and everything else would be the same. Note: I “borrowed” my grandfather’s power supply and memory for my desktop PC, tee-hee.
But it didn’t work, because my grandfather’s slower processor was on a lower-end motherboard, which did not have a slot for an external or whatever video card. And since my mom wants to have the “pretty shit” on Windows 7, leaving out the external video card just wasn’t an option. So we put everything back in her computer, and we’re going to pick up a cheap soundcard for her.
I brought my computer out because I wanted the CD burner in my grandfather’s computer. Mine has been giving me shit for several years now, taking anywhere from 50 to 587 (that’s the record #) button presses to finally eject the damn drive. I had to resort to keeping a straightened-out paperclip around to manually eject it, but that was a pain. Plus I chipped nail polish and broke nails on more than a few occasions. :/
Then there was Dan’s P.O.S. dead computer, the P.O.S. The motherboard was fried, but the power supply and RAM? Both in perfect shape, thank you very much.
So in the end there’s my mom’s PC, as it was with a dead soundcard that still needs replacing. My grandfather had two sticks of memory left, so we gave her those.
There’s my PC with the brand spanking new CD burner (literally; in terms of burning CDs it was still in mint condition!).
And then there’s my grandfather’s PC, which has everything in it now (courtesy of Dan’s P.O.S.) except for a hard drive (I, uh, borrowed the hard drive in his desktop PC, and the hard drives from Dan’s P.O.S. are IDE format; the HP computers all need SATA).
So yeah… holy computer parts Batman. I don’t know how Dan kept everything straight!
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