eskimo,
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you again. I spent a bit too much time last weekend doing nothing, which left me a bit backlogged this week. As for all the work, did all the work a year ago when my ECS motherboard started doing the exact same thing. I'm just going through all the things that I tried and hoping that one of them works out for you.
I don't really know whether or not the RAM will make the problem go away, but it really can't make things much worst. At least not noticably worse. It should work just fine on any DDR motherboard you can find if you end up replacing that as well. The only downside is that most of the new boards can use up to DDR333. The 2100 in question comes from the name for DDR266 which is pc2100. Unlike the old SDRAM which was named for the speed it was deemed suitable for running at (pc133 SDRAM ran at 133mhz) DDR is named after it's maximum theoretical bandwidth. DDR266 has a bandwidth of 2.1GB/s hence pc2100 (DDR333 has a bandwidth of 2.6GB/s but they round that up to a more impressive soudning ps2700).
I'm still not sure what to think about your powesupply though. It's definatly an upgrade over your old one, which seemed to be working fine for a while. That would suggest that it was something else that went bad (motherboard or RAM), but until you have enough extra parts to swap everything out one at a time, there's no way to be sure. As for your hard drive, yes there is a very good chance that from all of this the HD's partition has had a few holes poked in it. This is bad, but not necessarily fatal for the drive. Once everything else seems to be working fine, but before you start reinstalling everything, you can use a program called FDISK on your Windows startup disk (if you end up sticking with Win98 or Me) to whipe out the old partition and set a new one. Once you get to the point where you'll need to do this, just post here, I'm sure there are a number of people who could walk you through it.
As for the what and where of teaching; nothing, nowhere, yet. Sorry for the misrepresentation. I'm actually about two months away from graduation and (hopefuly) certification. I would have been out last year but the Board of Regents decided to up a few requirements. I was grandfathered and could have graduated anyway but the state said that they wouldn't certify anyone who didn't meet the new standards. So come Christmas time I'll be setting off out into the world (or at least the little corner of it that is South Dakota) with a Social Studies Composit degree for teaching at the secondary or middleschool levels. That ought to be enough to get me a job at Denny's.
Shortest... post... ever!
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