Last night went from a successful night in computers to worst than to horrific!

First off, I installed my 2nd cd-rom drive on my older computer

Then my brother tells me theres a computer that I can have if I just hook all the parts on the inside back up, I said I was fine with that and I hooked everything up, powered her up and no screen. After examining it for a long time, looks like the motherboard, video card, or hard-drive has gone bad. Motherboard - that particular one retails for almost $400 on amazon or newegg can't remember which one I saw it through.

Moving on, my computer (never opened or touched until things went bad) decided to give me an amber light and 2 beeps (it's a dell btw). After examining google and it, seems that I have to unplug everything, open her up and reseat not RESET everything. I do that and beep, beep. I do everything relating to the memory modules and nothing. Well, I gave up after 4 hours and called Dell support, it's going to cost me $70 for 2 gigs of ram and it will be here on Wednesday.

if the new ram modules fail, I think my motherboard went bad and I don't have the money to buy a new computer. Sadly, the computer just went out of warranty 3 months ago.

FUDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- End Rant.

I frigg'n hate when stuff goes out right after the warranty ends.

Last night went from a successful night in computers to worst than to horrific!

First off, I installed my 2nd cd-rom drive on my older computer

Then my brother tells me theres a computer that I can have if I just hook all the parts on the inside back up, I said I was fine with that and I hooked everything up, powered her up and no screen. After examining it for a long time, looks like the motherboard, video card, or hard-drive has gone bad. Motherboard - that particular one retails for almost $400 on amazon or newegg can't remember which one I saw it through.

Moving on, my computer (never opened or touched until things went bad) decided to give me an amber light and 2 beeps (it's a dell btw). After examining google and it, seems that I have to unplug everything, open her up and reseat not RESET everything. I do that and beep, beep. I do everything relating to the memory modules and nothing. Well, I gave up after 4 hours and called Dell support, it's going to cost me $70 for 2 gigs of ram and it will be here on Wednesday.

if the new ram modules fail, I think my motherboard went bad and I don't have the money to buy a new computer. Sadly, the computer just went out of warranty 3 months ago.

FUDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- End Rant.

Ick. 70 for 2 gigs? Either the ram is pretty old and mostly out of production, very new, or they ripped ya. I take it the ram from the other computer isn't compatible to try?

Yeah, all the other ram pieces I have are not compatible. I looked up prices for the RAM and it was coming up above $70 for both.

If it turns out to be the motherboard, I'll be building my own.