A lesson in patience for you all: Well, for me.
My DVD writer was playing up, so I bought a new one. Windows ddin’t want to boot with it, but Linux was fine. Turned out that Windoze doesn’t like the new ATA/66 writer on a bus with only a ATA/33 cable. It should work fine, and did with a proper OS, but didn’t with XP.
So I swapped it to the other controller, with an 80-pin cable connected. Because I was growing a little weary of all the tarting about, I didn’t disconnect the cables from the PC, and bent the usb connector, breaking it off the motherboard, which is now knackered.
As it’s an old socket A board, there’s not much choice. One, in fact, at my usual supplier, and it uses DDR rather than SDRAM memory, so one motherboard and 1GB of RAM later, I’ve learnt a lesson. I suppose I might get a bit of a performance hike though.
I think I may have a spare socket A board you can have. In Fact I also have a duel processor board that is yours for the collecting if you want it/them (and the manuals).
Ignore me if they are tat 🙂
As an addition, and in a similar vein to your grief, I was putting another Gb of DDR2 in my sons PC last night. He had the job of holding the torch and pointing out that I was bending the graphics card without knowing it. Not so much a lack of patience, more like hands too big for a midi case.
Oh bugger again. I’ve just ordered a new board…