I happy to report that all went well with the new home computer.

I reinstalled some of the programs like Microsoft Office, Skype, my wife’s favorite game and some other programs.

I bought two external hard drive cases and installed the two hard drives from my old computer into the USB HD cases. Now it’s a simple case of coping the data I need from the old hard drives to the new one. Even moving over the Microsoft mail contacts went well. All I did was click on import from inside Microsoft Mail and point it to the old contacts folder.

Just as a side note: Anytime you need information about computers or just about anything else you can think of, type it into Google search in the form of a question such as, where is, how to , what is, etc… You tend to get more relevant information this way.

I’m working on a new project The reason I mention it here is that this site will some how be involved, just not shore how yet, I’m still doing my research.

The project will cover:

* Home Repairs
* Computers
* Home Security
* Making Money Online

The general idea hear is, with the economy the way it is right now we all need to be making more money and saving more money. I have an interest in all these areas and I hope to bring them all under one roof either directly or by links. I’ll keep you informed and I go along. My goal is to have it up and running with in thirty days.

If you have ideas or comments you can post them below or you could DM me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Rob202 .

I had to make an emergency run to Best Buys yesterday to pick up a new computer. This was my first bought computer since my Radio Shack TRS-80. I’ve always built my own computers but I needed to be back up and running the same day.

I bought an HP with 6gigs of ram, 650g HD, ATI video card, 15 – 1 memory card slot on the front and some other goodies.

The first thing I did was remove Norton and install Pc-cillin Internet Security Pro. If you want a virus free, worry free system, INSTALL Pc-cillin!

So, how did I get myself into a situation where I needed to buy a computer? One day a few weeks ago my computer started to make noise. I could tell from the noise that one of my fans was going bad. So a few days later I rounded up some 80mm and 40mm fans and sat down and took the cover of my computer. Power supply fan, my intake fan and both out take fans were fine, even the CPU fans was working ok. However, a chip on the mother board had a heat sink/w fan on it and that was the one causing all the noise.

If I could do it over again I would have rigged up something but I didn’t. I figured I could live with the noise until I found the proper replacement heat sink and fan for the chip.

The long and short of it is the fan took a powder before I found a replacement and fried the chip. So instead of dropping $15 or $20 dollars I dropped $700 (doing my thing to help the economy).

So now I have an up to date computer system and I plan on getting a new mother board for the old computer. I’ll install Win 2000 or maybe Small Business Server (only because I have it) on it and make it a file server. This way I can back up all the other computers in the house onto the new server.

The moral of this story… Don’t ignore the noise, FIX the fans ASAP.