Help.. I'm a newbie

[George]

Hi Eric,

Sorry for the crash,but good hearing from you again. Can't say what you should or shouldn't buy, but here's what happened to me recently. Got my p.c upgraded in January. They sold me an "all aboard" type mother board and an AMD processor. Kept having wierd problems leading to 5 formats in as many months. They kept screaming"software", so I finally went elsewhere with it, the software being no different than before the upgrade.

We Junked the 5 month old motherboard and AMD processor. Had a good motherboard installed, separate sound card, video card, and an Intel Pentium 4 processor. Bye Bye problems.

I've always believed in having some local build me one instead of buying "package deals", and have always had good luck until this experience where they used what turned out to be inferior components. May cost more, but worth it.

Just last week or so upgraded to XP, and consider it a good move.

That's the only input I have. Hope it helps.

Take care,

George