Computer Markets & Frustrations

[laura_seabrook]

I went with Kevin to teh computer markets yesterday.

I ended up buying a 160 Gb hard disk for $80. My current PC can't use all of that - it "only" reads 120 Gb, but when I get a better motherboard it'll read the rest. I also bought a DVD burner for Jenn (and gave her my old 8 Gb hard drive) and USB keyboard and mouse, and graphics card for Kevin (for his $10 G4, which he got earlier in the week). All that leaves me with $16.95 until next Wednesday, but both Jenn and Kevin will pay me back this Wednesday.

There was a lot of tension when the graphics card wouldn't work in the G4, and the software supplied with the dongle wouldn't install on my my WIN98SE PC. However, today I've downloaded 90 mb of drivers for the thing, so Kevin should be able to download stuff for his mobile via my pc.

Anybody out there got a spare graphics card for a G4 that Kevin could have?

Maybe I should have left buying all this stuff until some other time, but the markets were on this weekend, and I thought it would be good to enable Jenn and Kevin to do stuff on their computers. Sometimes though, nothing works first time. Frustrating as shit, and it was a l-o-n-g day (again).

Been having a lot of those lately, but after this week there ought to be less deadlines to work to.

Comments

[partyanimal1245.livejournal.com]

Out of curiousity, what sort of graphics card is this that you tried in the G4? Macs of that vintage typically like ATI cards, and you'll typically get better results if the card has had its onboard BIOS re-flashed for use in a Macintosh.

According...

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

...to Kevin, it has to be an ATI card, but a "three pin" instead of a "two pin". You could ask him yourself over at mycosys.