Aaah, the ongoing saga of my computer.. is erm.. ongoing..

I purchased a Western Digital harddrive about a week ago. A real nice unit, 80GB, 8MB Cache and a beautiful shiney 3yr warranty. Set it all up, reinstalled XP+sp1, then stuck in a copy of MandrakeLinux ( LinuxMandrake? ) 9.1, just for flavour.

Very soon after I started having major rebooting issues within XP, basically, it rebooted every 5 minutes. Linux was mostly stable, which allowed me to post numerous messages to OCAU trying to get to the bottom of the problem. In the end I took a supect stick of RAM back to the retailer where it was tested and replaced. I also took the oppurtinty to buy another 512mb of the same ram for $5 more than I paid six months ago for 256mb.

Got the ram home, whacked it all in.. and whammo.. blue screen. The replacement stick of PC2700 I had gotten was defective as well, though the 512 still worked. So today I went back and got the defective stick tested and then replaced, and while I was there got the new stick tested. Whee!!

So as soon as I switch this system off.. I’ll be given it a nice upgrade.

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