Got to love when a plan comes together. Installed the new DVD player and the ram I had saved. The boys new computer posted the first time I booted it. Installed the old XP I had and it is up and running. It was very easy and I am glad I have finished for them. Now to figure out the best way to get in on the home network. I am either going with a an Linksys adapter. I am not sure if I want to use a pci card one or a USB key one. I will have to look at them a little more before deciding.
This means the boys, Beth helping a lot, will have to get their desk cleaned off so they will have room for their new computer. Is it over kill to give an 8 and 5 year old a hand built computer? I spent a little more than I had planned but it was still under $130 for the new parts and reused a lot of the parts I had laying around. I am now very sure I will build my next one from the ground up.
I loaded Windows 7 this week on my computer this week. I followed a suggestion from Maxiimum PC and put in a new internal hard drive. So I now have a Tri-boot PC with XP and Ubuntu on one hard drive and W7 on the new one. Now to get all my bookmarks and emails moved over to W7. I am having trouble getting a couple of games to play on W7 but I think its the 64-32 bit issue and just waiting on patches for them for the 64 bit Os.
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