Ah yes, sorry about that. I didn't realize what I had quoted of his tied into my mention of fixed fantasies. My intention was really to see if anyone else had grown up watching that program. Again, my apologies.
I loved that! I sometimes wonder if I would have turned out to be a alcoholic wife beater with fixed fantasies about life and existence had I not have watched all thirteen of those episodes when I was growing up.
"Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think...
I gotta take off, theres way too much misinformation in these forums, no wonder the internet is full of morons. I'm going back to Technological Amelioration
oh naturaly he was plugging the monitor cable into the same place as before and not the new card. i'm not good at telling stories. it was funny, I had to disapear out the back and laugh so hard I couldnt smoke a cigarette all day
I've seen something like that happen before except some guy bought a GF4MX for his compaq and brought it in saying the techs over the phone said the onboard graphics needed to be taken off so he wanted me to solder it off, I restrain laughter and take it and plug it in and he's like "damnit I'm...
I've said before something like this would be good.
RAM
Motherboard
Processor
also look around, read some reviews on the chipsets for socket 754 and 940 and whatnot. Mushkin and Corsair are good ram for running at fast timings as well. I'd pick nVidia over ati and don't just salvage your...
I sincerely doubt it, the P4 is either a 478 or a 423 williamete that celeron is a 370 i'm about 98% sure. Not 100% sure its been awhile but i'm confident enough to just say nah, forget it.
The test is actualy very easy, a 3rd grader could ace it. I mean if you could learn addition and subtraction when you were 6-7 then it shouldnt take you longer than 1-2 weeks to study and prepare for a 85+ if you've been working with computers for awhile, I scored a 90 something and all I did...
Let me add from what i've heard already i'd predict there being a 3, maybe 5% chance of it not being the RAM, its got me thinking off topic abit.
In the last year and a half I've had the following sticks go bad (all but 1 replaced by warantee)
1xMushkin (my ram)
2xCorsair
1xKingston
1xBuffalo...
The CPU is fine. Go to any electronic store that has a return policy and get a stick of compatible ram, swap it and if thats it then keep it if it was a good deal or take it back and order something better or cheaper online.