New Computer
My home computer has been chronically freezing now for the last few months, and progressively getting worse. I tried reinstalled W98 to no avail. I ran an assortment of diagnostic programs and found that either the RAM was bad, or the motherboard's RAM ports were bad. The computer (1GHz AMD Athlon, Via motherboard, built-in sound, 512MB RAM, 60GB IBM hard drive, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DLink 10/100 PCI NIC, GeForce2 32MB AGP card) was two years old and I didn't feel like wasting any more time. I'd been wanting to upgrade anyway, and here was a good excuse.
I had originally purchased the RAM from ChipsandMemory.com in San Diego with a Lifetime warranty. When the system went down I contacted them and the owner Alex told me that the Lifetime for that style of RAM was over, the manufactuer had stopped supporting it, as had they. However, he would give me store credit of my original costs if I bought new equipment. Excellent Customer Service!
Today I went by ChipsandMemory.Com and Best Buy to purchase hardware to assemble a new computer.
[06/15/04 Update: You can see a full list of the completed computer here.]
I had originally purchased the RAM from ChipsandMemory.com in San Diego with a Lifetime warranty. When the system went down I contacted them and the owner Alex told me that the Lifetime for that style of RAM was over, the manufactuer had stopped supporting it, as had they. However, he would give me store credit of my original costs if I bought new equipment. Excellent Customer Service!
Today I went by ChipsandMemory.Com and Best Buy to purchase hardware to assemble a new computer.
[06/15/04 Update: You can see a full list of the completed computer here.]
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