Well Saturday morning I woke up a bit early to finish off some work since it was going to be a busy Saturday of shopping for our impending move into a new townhome.  I hit the power button on my main PC and it sounded like it was gasping for every bit of power it could use, and then nothing on the screen.  Now just a few short weeks ago my video card moved on and I had to buy a new one, an AGP since my motherboard only supports that.  Now what could it be, power supply, video card, could be a few things. 

So after testing the video card and a few others things it all seemed to check out except the fan on the PSU wasn't working.  So a trip to CompUSA yielded me a brand new PSU unit in which it cheerfully installed as soon as I returned home.  Got everything connected and nothing, no POST......no nothing.  Swapping parts in and out and nothing seemed to remedy the situation, and the consensus seemed to be the motherboard had gave in. 

Of course!  Just weeks before a move so something had to break, right?  Well several hours on Newegg I finally got enough parts to build a really nice Core 2 Duo system.  It's been a while since I built a complete system and it seems now most motherboard will only accept two IDE devices, which sucks, because I have four.  Hard Drives are so cheap I guess it won't hurt just to pick up a SATA drive to put Vista on.  I also have this brand new AGP Nvidia 7600GS that is useless now as well, but maybe not.

With Windows Home Server approaching I might have just enough spare parts to make a nice box for it.   Sounds like a new project for me.