Resurrecting The Champ

My old PC, the one I was using as my media PC, has been resurrected from the grave on three separate occasions. I am afraid he is too far gone now and have sent him to his final resting place.

About 5 years ago, I bought the PC from New Egg as a "Bare Bones" LAN gaming rig. I built it scratch from the ground up. CPU, power supply, cooler, hard drives, case, drives, video card, the whole works I pieced together myself. It was my first build for a PC and I am sure I made quite a few mistakes. Over the years I added some more parts and upgraded as technology advanced, but it hung in there.

The first time it died, I spent a few hours tinkering and found a stick of RAM went bad, no big deal, pulled the RAM, ordered some more and along he went.

The second time it died, it was all my fault. I added some more hardware and failed to upgrade my power supply. After a while, it just took a shit. So I went to Staples and bought a new one, and along he went.

The third time the champ died, I could not figure out what the hell was wrong. After a few weeks without a PC I got fed up and bought a new one. I was due anyway, it had been four years since I got this one. PC's performance was more advanced and Vista was out now.

I never threw out the old beast, it just slumbered for a year in a box, waiting. One day after the holidays I got a hair up my ass to work on all the old PC's I had lying around that had been gifted to me from family and friends. I wanted to see if I could retrieve any of my old data from the beast. I put the hard drive in another PC that worked as a slave drive. I was amazed that after doing a check disk scan, a few bad sectors were repaired. I put everything back together, and he fired right up!

I stuck him next to my media center and hooked it up to my TV and you can see in my You Tube video I was running XP on my TV. About 2 weeks ago I woke up and it was dead again.

I have tried ever trick in the book that I can think of and have come to the conclusion that the motherboard is toasted. So I disassembled all the hardware, kept anything that might be useful later (like my hard drives) and dumped the rest.

Thanks for hanging in there buddy. I am gonna miss you.