James has conquered the Beast!

Last night he was at the computer again. Although he had attached the second power supply, the one we bought rather than the one that came with the case, to the motherboard/processor and tried it out, he had never actually installed it in the case. Since the unit wouldn't work anyway, he figured he had nothing to lose and actually installed the power supply.

And it worked!

So he began installing the different drives, one at a time.

And the machine came to a halt again.

"What did you do before it quit working?" I asked.

He'd plugged in the floppy drive. When he unplugged it, it worked again. Oh, well, we can get another.

He finished all the plug-ins, then installed the video card and the sound card. By this time it was 12:30 a.m. and even though he was off today (because of working Saturday), he figured he'd let it go for that moment.

But just for the heck of it, he plugged in the floppy drive again.

Whaddya know, this time the computer worked.

So today after getting the oil changed in the truck and buying new boots, he installed the network card, which was the last card. It didn't work—partially. Although it networked our computers together fine, it wouldn't connect with the DSL modem. Poor guy ended up calling up Earthlink support. The tech finally determined the card wasn't working with the DSL modem. Well, duh.

Luckily, the new motherboard came with an onboard network card. That likes both the network between the computers and the DSL modem just fine.

So I'm a'zippin' along now, and can go on with my plans to get a new webspace provider. Bye-bye, Ole Yahoo, I'm a'leavin' Cheyenne...

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