Techno Geekness

So I finally broke down and started tinkering with all the PC's I had in my apartment last night.

The first one to conquer was my parents discarded Compaq. It was infested with some pretty nasty Mal-ware, but after about an hour of scanning and deleting, she was ready to roll.

Next one was my old PC (the one before my current) that I built from the ground up has been out of commission for quite some time. I had no idea what was wrong with it, but I assumed that the hard drive was corrupt. So I took the drive out, set the jumper to slave and pig-tailed it onto the newly cleaned Compaq. During start up, XP ran a chkdsk on it and fixed the bad sectors. I plugged it back into it's original home and she fired right up.

The good thing about getting my old PC working, it has an ATI All in Wonder video card so I can use it as a media PC. I have it hooked up to my 46" LCD TV right now. Video looks really good on it. Sadly the audio needs some tweaking before I can get it working. I have to buy a sound card with optical output to hook up to a surround sound system which I have yet to buy also. I'll buy it someday.

I had to format that piece of shit external hard drive too. After a format and scan, it seems to be working fine for now. I am not very trusting of it though after it destroyed all data. Fool me once ....