Teen Tech

OK, so about two months ago, I attempted to upgrade the graphics card in my stepmom’s computer.  Things went wrong very quickly.  First, the computer would run, but the graphics stuff was extremely fast.  That was relatively fine for about two weeks.  Then when trying to install a game, the computer kept restarting, and eventually wouldn’t start back up again.  At first, the computer just didn’t see that Windows was installed.  Then after a while,  it would just beep for a bit then shut down.  I tried everything I knew of to try to fix it, short of taking everything out of the case.  Well, this weekend after about a month and a half of it not working, I did just that.  I opened up the computer case laying everything out in the living room.  The case was completely empty except for the power supply.  I cleaned in it where necessary because dust can be a big factor in a computer overheating and not functioning.  After that, I proceeded to put everything back in, double checking all the connections as I went.  After that was done, I plugged everything back into the back of the computer (stuff like the mouse, keyboard, and monitor), and I fired it up.  The darn thing worked the first time.  I installed the wireless network, and people were playing Age Of Empires (Microsoft Corporation) within an hour of having it in a perfect working condition.  Well, that’s my success story for the weekend.

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