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Prologue
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In my early years, I would say 1993 to 1997, I had a 386; my first computer. It sat in the coloured under the stairs, my fathers office. Me and my father would play great games like Wolfenstien 3d, and Doom on it. Running MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, with a AMI motherboard, and a 386 CPU, it served all my needs. I have many fond memories with it and most of my childhood was spent on it.
One day, (I do not remember the year since I was very young) My father upgraded the pc with a new motherboard and... a Pentium 1. The motherboard wasn't by AMI but the BIOS was. Also he upgrade the RAM from 8mb to 16mb. In 1996 or so my father bought a IBM Aptiva running Windows 95 and a whopping 32 mb of RAM, and gave the Pentium 1, to me. I was overjoyed, my very own computer. I played on it every day. This of course created my addiction to computers; but that is another story.
In 1999 I would guess, my father bought again, a new computer. He this time built it (the 386 was also home-built by the way). A Pentium III with 64mb of RAM. Again his old computer came to me. The Pentium I sat in the basement for four to five years, until that stupid day. Me and my friend found an old pc. At the time I was new with computer internals and thought maybe the CPU was removed. So I brought my Pentium I's CPU. Later we found out it wasn't, so I returned it home. Now as stated before, I was new with internals and didn't know one pin is removed in the corner of the socket. Most of the pins were crushed on the CPU after I tried jamming it inside
. So the Pentium I, now sat in the basement CPUless.
Then came the second day of my stupidity. I should have learned from my mistakes, that hardware is fragile, but noo, I put in a AMD K-6 CPU into a Socket 7 motherboard in a hopeless attempt to revive my favorite PC. I heard crackling, saw a black screen, and smelled burnt plastic. The CPU became so hot it burnt my fingers. Then it hit me...... I killed the motherboard.
I went on message boards in a hopeless attempt to turn away from the truth, the motherboard was dead, and there was no way of fixing it. Then I had a plan, I would buy a new motherboard similar to the old one. I went to my favorite tech message board, modthebox, and posted for a motherboard with stats and techs similar to my old one. I put it in, and was disappointed. The motherboard felt too new. The BIOS screen was the same one that most PCs have today, the AWARD BIOS screen with the energy saver logo. The pc began to sit in its new home... under my desk. I has been there ever since.
Then today (Thursday June 23, 2005), I found something... While looking for my fathers old Visual Basic 6 cd, a medium sized circuit board (bigger then a expansion card but smaller then an ATX motherboard). At first I didn't know what it was. All I knew was it had 6 ISA slots, the older keyboard interface slot (don't know the name) four ram slots, a power slot, and a chip... that read AMI 386. Then it hit me, it was my old pcs original motherboard. Now I plan to rebuild my original pc's parts to its former state. I will write everything down and post it on this site. I cannot wait to use my old pc, once again.
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