Got to Love It

Mid-Morning on a Tuesday, I have a blog in front of me as I'm in the middle of reinstalling my system. So far so good on that note.

I was able to get the old motherboard out. I removed the heatsink and the processor. The heatsink was pretty much coated in thermal tape residue so I had to get all of that off with some nail polish remover. It took a while to figure out the exact way to put the thermal compound on the chip and the heatsink, let alone get the both back on the motherboard, but I think I managed. Though I think Rachel, who was IM'ing me during the process, aged two years in the time it took for me to put the damn things in.

I half expected the entire system to blow up as soon as I got everything back together. Lets face it, you read this blog, you know what an idiot I am when it comes to hardware. So I took things slow, got the motherboard in, connected the cards, turned the power on and ... BIOS comes up. Seems to be running fine. Went through the Windows XP setup. No graphics card lockups like the other with the other motherboard. Now this worries me. I get all the way done with the installation, install all 4 versions of AOL and ... no hitches. I had to call Microsoft to reregister XP over the phone (you have to do it with a new motherboard), and that was essentially it.

So far, it's working. Don't know if it'll REMAIN working, but hey, it wasn't as bad as I feared.

k9

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