Daughters E-machine refused to boot

Last week my daughters E-machine refused to boot, and I couldn't use the recovery partion or CD.
Thinking it might be the PSU, I took one out of another computer I have but isn't working because of the Ram, unfortunately this didn't make any difference to the e-machine.

I tried some linux live CD's. which it ran for about 20minutes, so thinking I could let my daughter use Ubuntu for the night, I moved it back into her room, where it refused to work again.

Before I had changed the PSU, I had also reseated the fan and heatsink with new thermal paste, but likewise with the PSU, it didn't make any difference.

The funny thing was that I was able to run The Ultimate Boot CD and Hirens Boot CD with no problem, but was unable to run a O/S.

The next day I had to order a new Motherboard as that was the only thing left that could be causing the problem, so I ordered a Gigabyte M61PME-S2 from ebuyers, which I got the next day.

I took it slowly installing the motherboard, as it was the 1st new one I had installed so didn't want to mess it up.
Fitting the motherboard wasn't a problem, though I still have two wires not in right place and so have no activity or power on lights, which I don't see as too much of a problem.
The computer started fine, it was the re-install of windows Vista that took the time.

So I installed Vista which took an age, then the mobo drivers, unfortunately then Vista wouldn't restart, and I finally had to give up and re-install vista again and after it did a disk check,and cleaned off some of the old Vista program, things started to work until Unfortunately I suffered a few BSOD's, so in safe mode I removed the last program I had loaded, and from then on it seemed to work.

I wasnt' sure about the re-activation of vista as I had changed the motherboard, and it wouldn't work with the key on it, but when I used the product key from the back of the computer, it activated no problem.
Finally my daughter had a working computer again.

Pearly white update

Well its like all things, as in it just takes time to get used to it.
Is it working ? well I would have to say yes it does work, not that I thought it wouldn't !
Have nearly finished my course now, and I must of used a bit too much as didn't get the amount of treatments that it said I would.
I carried on with my tea coffee and red wine drinking and still have whiter teeth.

eeek Teeth whitening kit

I got a free tooth whitening kit off the internet, and 1st they sent the moulds which I had to make an impression of my upper and lower teeth, which was sent away for the teeth moulds to be made.

Today the moulds came back along with the syringes of tooth whitening agent, which I apply to the moulds and then put on my teeth for 2 - 4 hours, and fun it is not.

I am sitting here with the moulds over my teeth and it is just annoying, and will struggle to do 2 hours, let alone 4 hours.
I have enough whitening agent for 10 - 16 applications and I have to do it everyday until I reach the whiteness I want (how about now !), after that if I make it that far I expect I shall let them go back to their natural colour.
I haven't even done an hour yet , and I'm just glad I didn't get the overnight whitener.

And to top it all I can't have any red wine tonight !

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Have taken them off after 2 hours, and at least I can talk now.
It says on the paperwork, not to drink tea coffee , red wine and other stuff upto 48 hrs after application, considering I am supposed to put it on again tomorrow that means I can't have tea or coffee until I have finished the treatment, which is at least 10 days eeek.
I see extra syringes cost from £6 up, and each syringe should do 3 -4 applications.

Well as I like to drink coffee in the morning, I can't see my treatment going very well.

New Desk

Here is the new desk that I got today through freecycle, and I am very pleased with it.
As you can see I now have dual screen which was quite easy to set up once I had 2nd Monitor from my Brother-in-law, who has moved onto a Laptop.

I now have the new CPU in my computer, though of course I now want something faster, maybe more Ram would help, about 2 GB's should do, and when that happens I will be able to transfer the old Ram into the Tower which was also from my brother-in-law. Oh and a smarter case as the tower is now sitting on the desk.

Of course then I will need a switch thing so that I can use the monitor on either tower.
I got rid of the old pentium 2 computer and the monitors on freecycle of course, which is where I will get rid of my old desk.

New/second hand CPU coming soon

I've finally had enough of my stock cpu which came with compaq presario sr1819uk, which is a sempron 3000+ and am waiting the delivery of a san diago 4000+.
Because I left it about a month or two to late, I was unable to get a new one as most of the stores have stopped doing them, and the ones that still do want nearly double the price.
So I ended up having to use ebay, which is the 1st time I have used it.
The 1st auction I had the winning bid until it got close to the closing time, when the price went higher than I had wanted to pay for a 2nd hand CPU.
Which left me having to reassess how much I could spend the following night when two more were going.
But me being impatient decided to go for the one in the morning that had a starting price of £20, so leaving it till the last minute I bid £20 and won (well I was the only bidder).
Though this one didn't come with the stock cooler, I can use the one I have at the moment, and in the end it was a good decision ( I hope) as the other two went for just over £30.
So it should be posted today and hopefully receive it tomorrow or next day and then I can give a run down of the CPU upgrade.

My Computer Now

well the labels didn't come out quite right, but that is what my Computer looks like now inside.
I added the Graphics card as I now have Pinnacle Studio Plus to edit my home video's, and of course with all these video's, I needed a bigger hard drive.
As you can see, I now have pushed the wires out of the way, so that should help with cooling, which isn't a problem now.

Just checked and the picture looks better if you click on it.

This is a Heavy weight Television

Edmund brought home one massive TV, that he got given for free as who wants a CRT now when LCD and PLASMA are the rage.

We need some heavy duty stand for it, as the one it is on isn't that safe, and I wouldn't want that TV to drop on Geoff our 6 year old.
I don't have a problem with Plasma and LCD, but if something like this is going free I don't mind using it.