| | well, so couple months ago, the computer jeff and i assembled suddenly stopped working. i had no clue what happened, all the fans spun and everything powered up fine, there was just no BIOS beep or anything. i figure, it's old, the mobo probably burned out, i mean it's almost 8 years old, travelled multiple times etc. well, so i went about assembling a new one. well all the stuff comes in, i put it all together. start it up, again, nothing. well to precise, it was the same thing as the previous, no BIOS etc. well i tested the processor, the psu, the graphics card. everything. nothing. same thing. well finally some other epople helped me out, we did the step by step eliminating thing. well, at that point, figured out it was a PCI IDE controller card. this, i completely overlooked because it was...well it was a PCI card. it should've been a non-issue. however, i overlooked the fact that, as an IDE controller card, it had its own BIOS. i assume something, a power surge or some such made that card fail and the computers tried to boot from that card first, as opposed to booting from its own BIOS.
well it works now, finally. gave it to my parents. my dad says "it's faster" going from a pentium 1 ghz pentium 2, 256 ram to a 2.0 ghz quadcore, 2gb ram. yeah. it's "faster".
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