Replacing my PC today

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I had some major issues with my PC yesterday and today it continues. I will have to buy another PC today and get it set up. Please be patient as I am working as fast as I can. Thanks!

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:33 am

As of 11/30/2007 00:30 ... He's back killing me

Specs on my new toy PowerSpec® E360 Smile

- I have highlighted which options I have where there was a choice:

Intel® Desktop Board DG965WH

Form Factor
* ATX (11.60 inches by 9.60 inches [294.64 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])

Processor Support
* Intel® Core(tm)2 Duo Processor in an LGA775 socket with a 1066 or 800 MHz system bus
* Intel® Pentium® D processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 or 533 MHz system bus
* Intel® Pentium® 4 processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 or 533 MHz system bus
* Intel® Celeron® D processor in an LGA775 socket with a 533 MHz system bus

Memory
* Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
* Support for DDR2 800, DDR2 667, or DDR2 533 MHz DIMMs
* Support for up to 4 GB of system memory using DDR2 800 DIMMs
* Support for up to 8 GB of system memory using DDR2 667 or DDR2 533 DIMMs

Chipset
* Intel® G965 Express Chipset, consisting of:
- Intel® 82G965 Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)
- Intel® 82801 I/O Controller Hub (ICH8)

Video
* Intel® GMA X3000 onboard graphics subsystem
-667 MHz core frequency
-32-bit and 16-bit Full Precision Floating Point Operations
-128-bit floating point texture formats
-Bilinear, trilinear, and anisotropic MipMap filtering
-Shadow maps and double sided stencils
-Alpha and luminance maps
-Texture color-keying/chroma-keying
-Cubic environment reflection mapping
-Enhanced texture blending functions
* NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
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Audio
* Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem
* 8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem
* Sigmatel 9223 audio codec

LAN
* Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN
* Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller

IEEE 1394
* TI IEEE-1394a (TSB43AB22) controller

SATA
* 2x500 gig drives
* Intel® 82801 I/O Controller Hub (ICH8) - (Six SATA connectors)
* RAID (levels 0,1, 0+1, and 5)

Peripheral Interfaces
* Ten USB 2.0 ports (6- Rear ports + 2- 10 pin headers)
* One parallel port
* One IEEE1394 port
* Six Serial ATA interfaces with RAID support
* One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
* One diskette drive interface
* PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports
* Wireless keyboard and mouse

Expansion Capabilities
* One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector
* Three PCI Express x1 bus add-in card connectors
* Three PCI Conventional* bus connectors

Hardware Monitor
* Intel® Quiet System Technology implemented through the ICH8 Manageability Engine
* Voltage sense to detect out of range power supply voltages
* Thermal sense to detect out of range thermal values
* Three fan sense inputs used to monitor fan activity

Samsung SyncMaster 206bw 20" Flat panel
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* 2ms Response Time (GTG)
* 3000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio
* Dual Input (Analog & Digital)
* Wall and Arm Mountable

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:11 pm

Glad you're back sir!

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:20 pm

Thanks. This reinstalling everything sucks more and more each time I do this. There has got to be a better way. I just need to find it Laughing

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:46 am

Get everything set up the use Norton Ghost Wink

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:28 am

I have it. With the vast difference in machines an image wasn't really a viable option. Nothing was lost - I put the hard drive into the new one and can still move stuff around Smile