So what actually happened to the PC ?

Goodness knows what happened to this trusty CPU.

All I know is that the internal hard drive started malfunctioning and everytime we went to the Welcome screen, it’d reboot – for no apparent reason. (It’s dad’s fault, not mine ; he saves all his files in My Documents while I save my files in my own hard drives).

So what happenned next was this :

We changed the hard drive.
From 80GB, we switched to 320GB – and instead of two partitions, we created three. The smallest partition was for system files and programmes.

We changed the RAM.
From 512MB we switched to 1GB. We left the 512MB RAM inside in case the PC needed more – so that makes 1512MB.

We changed the keyboard.
And that was because the old one wasn’t working.

After that, we kept our fingers crossed – everything was connected. Dad did the connections himself – we can’t trust the people in PC stores – they can do anything absurd with the PC and expect us to pay ! I put in the Windows XP disc. Home edition, original. There was a huge problem : the disc wasn’t loading and we couldn’t go any further.

I’m not sure of what the problem is, but here’s a thought : now that it’s fully up and functional, I guess we don’t need to worry anymore.

For the five days that I was offline, I taunted dad. I told him that with all the money he actually spent getting it back to full function, he could’ve spent it on a Dell Studio laptop complete with original parts (minus the operating system of course, because we already have one). He got all defensive and said that there are some of his friends – aviators, of course – who have been keeping their PCs for more than 10 years ! Thing is, he’s just too attached to his PC, and he’ll do anything to keep it. It’s a shared machine, for Pete’s sake…

Well. I’ve no complaints now. I’ve got all my French accents back. And I'm on my way to getting all my software back. I can start blogging !