Glad that you and your's are Okay Ace. This freaky weather needs to go!

Just hang in there Terry. With the help of this awesome community, things will work out. Eventually you could have the best of both worlds, a new, up-to-date rig and OS with plenty of grunt and your old XP rig up and running better than ever with a shiney new look to use your legacy software on. My Win 7 rig is my powerhouse, but my XP rig that I am posting on now is an old eMachines T3104 in a custom case and it gets almost as much use. I have it hooked up as a media center here in my living room.

 BTW, I have the 300 watt PSU from the T3104 that I could send you when I get my taxes back, you could put that in your XP box. You would just need a couple of sata power adapters as it is all molex 4pin. I may also have an IDE HDD I could part with by then if you need it. Just let me know.

Wizard, could you please send me an inventory list!  Just kidding , wow you have a lot of spare stuff. And so generous with it, you rock.

  Just paying it forward. This community has been very good to me.

ZOOOM!!

   Off on the Snail Mail Express!

Win 7 is on its way. I can't say how long it will take though. Enjoy!

Wizard I will take you up on the offer on the hard drive. If it is a IDE hard drive then I will need another IDE cable. If it is a SATA drive then I will need another SATA cable. I have SATA power adapters. Thanks.

Don't worry about those cables you need Kona.... I have included them in the board/tower package I'm sending you.    -- Ace --

Not a problem, cables, I've got. It's not a large drive, only a Samsung 80GB IDE but that should be plenty for an XP install and loads of music or games. It will be a couple of weeks until I get my taxes back and then I'll send it your way.

Thanks. This old XP rig is using the new PSU and new hard drive. I have the old PSU and it still works, just the old drive went belly up some time ago.

OK. I'll toss the cable in anyway, I have plenty and it's always good to have a spare around when you need one.

Everything comin' together!! Haaaaaa ha ha ha ha................

Kona...let me know when you get the disk.

Oohhh...new page.

Everything is ready to go and it will be shipped tommorrow ( Monday ) I'll send a P.M. to you Kona with the tracking number. I'm sure you're going to be very pleased !!     -- Ace --

Ace is da man!! 

Thank you all ever so much. This Pentium 4'd days are numbered hopefully. Cross my fingers that the new system will be up and running. Then this old system can get a reinstall of XP and then get put in the closet in case we need to use it in the future.

Uvah I got the Windows 7 disc in today. The Snoopy packaging brought a smile to my face. Hey send me a PM, k? I had a question.

Well.....there's now a slight problem. The box I was wanting to send measures 24"x18"x18" and is approximately 18.8 lbs. When I went to UPS across town they said it would cost me $88.00 to ship !!!!!!! Are you kidding me ??? Obviously I don't have that kind of money so I left. On the way back I stopped in to the US Postal Service to get a rate. It was about half or $40.00 , which is considerably less but still, I only get paid once a month and $40 right now would really be risky for me since I don't get paid again until the 20th of this month.I'm definitely going to need some help with this.        -- Ace --

Well I guess you could keep the case and send just the mobo if we can't get any help. I can't think of anything else to do.

Try Fedex ground....get rates here.

Fedex =  $66.00

I had to buy the box from the storage place here in town as well as the packing tape total cost so far is close to $10 ....So you see, I already have a good chunk of change invested just to tear it all down.

Also....because it is a high performance board, you will never get away with running it in a small enclosure, the heat would be very destructive, thus the reason I bought the Thermal Take tower to house it in.