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GDFPOS Computer

We went to the movies Friday night and when I came home the computer was dead. It would try to turn on, but either turn itself off before it booted up, or go part way through the bios tests and

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Somewhat done

I got everything except the sound card and speakers on Friday, so I spent friday night assembling it all and installing Windows XP. It went surprisingly smoothly, with a few exceptions. The first problem was that I used the wrong

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Day 5

Nothing for day 4, so now it’s day 5. I missed the fedex dropoff, they came at 11am, as if someone would be home then. They left the door slip to sign and they’ll leave it tomorrow if nobody is

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Day 3

Not a whole lot new today. My packages from Newegg.com shipped. There are two packages, presumably one is the case, and one is everything else. They left CA on July 26, 12:02pm, and are currently being held in Indianapolis, IN

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Day 2

Today I went to CompUSA very briefly, and got the video card. We didn’t waste any time in the store, just went to the case, said we wanted it, paid, and got out. There’s no reason to stay in there

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Step 1, Spend $2k

Well, I’ve finally decided to put my months of browsing computer parts to use, and ordered everything needed to build my next computer. I had hoped to be able to build 2 at the same time, so that Sabrina and

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