Gather around boys and girls, I have a tale to tell about a young man and his foolish desires. The story starts out with a wad of cash and a man who doesn’t know the meaning of saving. When he gets this cash he then decides to buy himself a state of the art PC upgrade. A new motherboard, a new Intel i7 920 CPU, 12 GB of RAM, and a Radeon HD 5970 GPU. Even though this cost him over a grand, this man was proud; for he knew the things he carried with him was a majestic force to be reckoned with.

Upon arriving home from his purchase, he slowly begins to disassemble his old pc and replace the parts with a new. As the day grew dim, he was finally done and ready to test his dream machine. On goes the switch and the computer starts up. “Success!” The man exclaims as he sits in anticipation for all the new things he will experience with his newly purchased power. As the system reaches the Windows 7 loading logo, the animation stops and the computer restarts.

“Hum…..that’s not good….”Said the man. “That’s really not good.”

The man then process to load up the bios screen, checking to make sure everything was in order. “I don’t see anything wrong, let me try my second HD.” He boots up the pc again, this time with his second HD which has his original Windows XP still installed on it. He got the same results. “Oh no…” The man said. “It can’t be a hardware problem so it must be software, specifically dealing with the motherboard.”

To test this theory, the man reformatted his second HD and installed a fresh copy of Windows. Upon starting the PC with this fresh install, the computer booted up perfectly. “Ahh shit…” Said the man with a depressing voice. “If I want to use my new parts, I have to reformat my main HD!”

“FUCK!” Said the man to himself repeatedly.

The man then examined his financial situation and his time. He finally came to the decision the upgrade was not worth it. The following day he carefully placed all the original parts back into his PC and took the new parts back to the store for a refund. The man felt a bit depressed, but knew he had made the better decision.

Until a few weeks later…

It was a holiday weekend and the man just completed all his duties and was enjoying his stress free environment to the fullest. Suddenly, a thought came to the man’s head. “So what if I can’t get the best parts today?! I can still upgrade my PC a bit without running into software problems!” With this statement replaying in his mind with great ferocity, he quickly moves to fulfill his lost desire.

A Intel Duo Core 2.93GHz CPU and 8 GB of RAM was what the man purchased. Confident in his decision, he quickly got home and begin to make the switch. Being a bit too inpatient, the man took risks with the transfer of the components, all he could think about was the boost of power he would receive with the update. Once he got everything plugged and ready, he flicked the on switch and on came everything but the display of the screen.

“Oh dear god not this shit again…..” Said the man with depression resembling the situation prior.

He thinks the problem could be due to placing the CPU incorrectly, so he checks and everything appears fine.”Fuck it.” Said the man. “The RAM alone will do fine.” He then processes to place the old CPU back inside and starts up the computer once more, but the same looming blank screen glances back at him.

“Oh no, no no no no NOOOOOOO!!!!” The man shouts to himself; for he knew what this meant. The motherboard was killed, most likely due to his carelessness and foolishness of his decision. There was nothing more he could do but purchase a new motherboard and with it, the reformatting of his main HD.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, the idiot man is me. Yes, I had to reformat my main HD but nothing of value was lost considering I was able to back up all my files from my second HD. I now have most of everything up and running, the rest will be sorted out in do time. I do have the new parts installed and in working condition, so that’s good I suppose. *Sigh* If only I’d learned my lesson the first time, so much wasted time and money.