Date: 03/20/08 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

Hello, I was opening my computer to clean out some of the accumulated dust and came across a problem while trying to put all the wires back together.

I connected everything as it need be, but noticed my hard drives weren't being read. After trial and error I noticed my IDE1 slot was the source of the problem( I got the hard drive to boot when I unplugged my DVD rom and used IDE2's hookup to relay hard drive info, previously when I tried it in IDE1, it would not boot up correctly)

Anyways, now I'm wondering if there is a way to fix this problem? Then I also thought, maybe it's time for an upgrade and wondered for what price could I get another mother board that would support my 256(512 total) ddr mem and my radeon 9200 -128mb video card?

I also thought, wow is my stuff really out of date and I wont be able to play many current and future games?

Answers to some of these questions and maybe a few recommendations are very appreciated.

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