I recently decided to invest in a upgrade for my old computer, which up for the last four years has been running at a measly 450mhz – not exactly state of the art these days.
Not wanting to mess around with a new motherboard, I bought a Powerleap slot-1 upgrade with a 1.4ghz Intel Celeron CPU from Jarep Data, as well as a GForce FX5600 card and 160GB hard drive from Komplett. The total cost was about 3500 kroner, which is not bad considering that this upgrade hopefully will might make this PC last a few more years…
Installation of the processor and graphics card went fine, but when installing the hard-drive I encountered a problem – my old BIOS apparently doesn’t support larger drives than 136GB. After buying and installing an IDE controller card to fix the problem, my PC suddenly wouldn’t boot at all, and I spent a couple days before successfully fixing it with a pretty crazy solution.
Now I’ve spent a large part of the last days trying to make the controller card work with the new hard-drive, with no luck yet, and hoping I the same error doesn’t occur again. Now I’ve basically abandoned making it work, and come Monday or Tuesday I’ll probably try to swap the new drive into one or maybe two 120GB disks instead.
Hopefully this might save me a lot of future headache. Here’s hoping the guys at Komplett are understanding of my predicament…