Down To Two PCs
Sep 21st, 2007 by Don Ray
My Windows XP has bitten the dust again. I am afraid it may be the motherboard. It is an ASUS A8N-VM CSM motherboard that I purchased a year and a half ago. It has been acting flaky for the last month. It will power up and work for a few days and then it may not boot up.
I have it in being checked, one last time, at Micro Technology. It will be worth the $15 diagnostic fee to confirm my suspicions.
It was state of the art when I bought it. I had intended to use it to build a Linux PC when I bought it, but it was too new to have good support at that time. If it is bad, I hope I can find a more current motherboard that will use the same CPU and memory to lower my replacement cost.
It had an AMD 3500 64 bit CPU in the 939 format. So my current task is to search for possible motherboard options. I priced a couple MB, CPU, memory combinations and the prices are running about 40% more if I buy it in Panama than if I were able to buy it in the US.
I hope my Apple Mac Mini and my Linux PC keep running till I solve the current problem. I am sure when this is solved, one of the other PCs will break. It seems that is what normally happens.
Your Apple will most likely keep running. Believe it or not, I once took a hammer, crow bar and hacksaw to my IMac. It survived! Ok, ok, the story is that I needed those tools to change the battery.
Hi Tom. Thanks for clarifying your statement. I often feel like taking a hammer to a PC every now and then.