12-24-2008, 05:18 AM
It must have been the hard drive or the RAM, because I just went ahead and replaced both to bring things fully up to date, and I'm now up and running! Woot!
Here's a summary I posted for my guild:
Much thanks to everyone here for the inspiration to upgrade in the first place, and the suggestions as I ran into issues.
As a side-note...what the hell am I going to do with 500 GB of disk space? It was the smallest, cheapest decent HDD they carried at my local Fry's Electronics =)
Here's a summary I posted for my guild:
Quote:I finished my XP installation, installed drivers for my NVIDIA 8600 GTS card, installed firefox, and am just taking a moment to say that I'll be back in the world (of warcraft) soon enough!
All told, I salvaged (from my previous machine):
500W PSU
NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600 GTS video card
DVD/CDROM drive
SB Audigy II sound card
Newly Aquired and Installed:
Gigabyte S-Series GA-EP45-DS3LR/DS3L Motherboard
intel Core 2 Duo E8500 dual-core CPU
New (standard, cheap) case
Seagate 3.5" Barracuda 500GB HDD (7200 RPM, 32 MB Cache)
4 GB (2 x 2GB) Corsair PC6400 800 MHz DDR2 memory
Windows XP Professional (OEM copy)
Yay.
Much thanks to everyone here for the inspiration to upgrade in the first place, and the suggestions as I ran into issues.
As a side-note...what the hell am I going to do with 500 GB of disk space? It was the smallest, cheapest decent HDD they carried at my local Fry's Electronics =)
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