The guys at work helped me price out a new gaming computer for about the cost of my stimulus check. It's an amazing little machine with a flat screen monitor, 8800 GT graphics card, 4G of ram, and a sweet dual core processor.
Turned out the power supply was too dinky to run the stupid video card, so I bought a new one.
I bought a new one and installed it and the ginormous graphics card last night.
By myself.
When I plugged the computer in, it didn't blow up or anything! And I only had to open it back up one more time when I discovered that the CD drive didn't work. I'd plugged the power cable to the drive in, but re-located the data cable somewhere else.
And the fact that I did that, and can talk intelligently about that, makes me immensely proud. I love learning new things, and being able to do things on my own. After watching the not-boyfriend put together Steph's computer, I figured I was up to this bit of PC customization. Sure, I realize it's not terribly difficult, but the idea of it was intimidating, and now it's not so scary anymore.
Man, I love learning useful skillz.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
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and you only had to text me about something thats considered much higher level too
I'm proud of ya!
I should have figured out the driver thing on my own. If I hadn't unplugged that silly data cable, my CD drive would have recognized the disk and prompted me to install it.
Silly rabbit. lol But hey, it was an easy fix!
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