I had a very bad week with my PC. Unfortunately I have to report that it passed away after several years of use. Fortunately, thank to my parents, I now have a new EMachines PC - with a 2.8ghz processor, 512MB of DDR Ram, 128MB ATI Radeon Graphics Card, DVD +/- RW Drive, 120GB hard drive, Front Media Card Readers, 4 rear USB ports and 1 front, network card, 56k modem and sound, complete with front headphone and microphone sockets. It runs Windows XP home.
The hardest part has been getting my data from the old computer to the new computer. I went to PC World today to see if they had some sort of Hard Drive caddy, however they did not, but as I was leaving I noticed on a wall an advert for a computer fair in a hotel. Now I don't usually like going to a computer fair as I think they are very dodgy, but in this case decided to risk it. I'm glad I did as for £37 I found a hard drive caddy, that would enable me to connect it to my computer via USB 2, which means that all my personal and business data has been saved.
The problem with my old PC was that it started to freeze when I was in Linux or Windows XP, and got to the point that when I turned it on, it could not complete the boot process, it just kept rebooting itself. Thankfully I explained all of this to my parents and they agreed to loan me the money to get a new PC.
I have decided that during the warranty period I am not going to install Linux, as that might cause a problem with the warranty, but readers of this blog will be kept informed about my Linux exploits as my parents now run SuSE Linux personal 9.1 on their PC, replacing Windows 98a
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