I’ve got more money in my bank account than I was first expecting so I’m going to put my plan for getting the PC up and running into action sooner than originally intended. Later on today I’m going to buy a new Motherboard, a 500GB harddrive (can get these for around £35-ish) and a system speaker (!). The latter is because my case didn’t come with one, if I had one I may probably could’ve diagnosed the exact problem sooner!

Anyway once I’ve got the above bits, I’m going to install them and check to see how it all runs. The reason for the new drive is so I don’t have to keep swapping drives between my new and old PC. I’m also going to be using my spare monitor and a different keyboard and mouse to minimise the effort. If all goes to plan the new Motherboard should work like a charm and everything will be better, if not I may need to buy a new CPU (my model and the next one up have dropped in price by £20 since I originally bought it) and at the very worse case scenario I may need a new Graphics Card. Either way I intend on getting my money back as these components should hold up a hell of a lot longer than two months.

… if the CPU is cooked, I’m not sure if I can get my money back for that one, can I?