Today I smoked the 3.5 floppy drive....don't even ask how. Suffice it to say that my computer looks like a rednecks. It's an ATX tower with no sides on it, laying on its side so that I could use the floppy (Which was laying loose on top of the case) because the case is tweaked out of shape. We have constant power outages up here so I have all sorts of software issues because the computer gets hard booted 10-15 times a week.....I finally had to strip it down to Explorer and Systray on start up and nothing else. And then there is the fact that the computer is 3 years old...
I do not want to go with Tiger Direct because that is where I originally bought this barebones kit from and it's been a nightmare. I've been through 3 power supplies, 3 video cards, 2 motherboards and God only knows what else in that time. I have never had this much trouble with hardware on any computer I've ever built and that goes back almost 15 years.
I'm not looking to put together anything special, just something reliable with 512MB RAM and maybe a 2GB processor. The case power supply is unimportant because if need be I can rob the 450 watt supply out of this one. The computer won't be used for any high end gaming or any other resource hogs, just basic internet usage and an occasional older game.
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