riosingh

my old computer which was a 1.6ghz pentium 4. has given up the ghost.
i dont know weither its a software problem or a hardware one.(recovry disks did not fix it)
so i got thinking that maybe i could build a new one.
the power suply has "for pentium 4" written on it so i thought i'd go down this rute, as I think most of the the procers i was considering(3.0ghz p4 and 3.6ghz celerons), are if im right pentium 4s
i was also going to buy a new motherboard as i dont know wether my mother board or procesor is at fault.(and i guess that the chepo boards of today are megaloads beter than my old thingh).
also i'm going to get a new hard drive. dont know why, but it could also be the problem.

from the old one i want to use;
the case.
disk drive
cd drive
usb card thingy(in the slot above the disk drive)maybe called firewire card?
and the 256 mb ddr ram stick.

and i suppose i'll have to buy a new opperating system, but wont be getting that home addition thingy as i made the mistake of getting that with the laptop. and the works version of the spredsheet is ****e.(cant do multiple sheets(as in one for every month, got round it by drawing a dark line under each month but it means have to scroll to get there)).
so windows xp it'll have to be.

swaussie

why waste money on XP when you could download a version of Linux for free? It will do anything that XP can do plus a shed load more. If its just for internet surfing, playing music/movies and not much else save the cash. Its not that much different and with a million news groups if you have any probs you will get help in seconds.