Let me tell you my experience.
I bought it when I was in Class VII in 2003. Our computer teacher told that a computer is a must to do programming(Quick Basic) but actually I wanted to play games. I wanted a multimedia computer with icons(At that time I thought that the computers with colour and icons are called multimedia computers and black screen computers were not multimedia computers.I didn;t know that the computers depended on the OS installed on them. Therefore I requested and begged my parents but he wouldn't listen
. I told him that our computer teacher told to buy but he would think I will only play games and told me to do the programming in tution classes.I started hunger strike and didn't talk with them and kept my face as a dumb person
. My parents took pity and told me that they would buy me a computer just for programming and just a economy PC. I didn't like it but something is better than nothing. He bought a catalog where 3 branded computers were there and 1 assembled one. The assembled was of Rs. 19,900. It has the following config:
Cyrix Processor
Forgot the name of the motherboard (i think some SYS)but it didn't have USB slots
128MB RAM
40GB HDD
LG 15inch Monitor
CD-ROM Drive
125 MP3's
Two frontech speakers
FRONTECH Keyboard and mouse
We went to the shop to order three days before my birthday. They told that they would keep it ready under 2 days. It was really a very very restless period for me those 48 hours. On 2nd Oct(after two days i.e. my birthday) me and my father went to the shop and asked for it. The vendor told that the assembler took it to his home. We went there and saw my own PC. It had Windows 98(SE) installed and was looking very beautiful. The assembler gave it to us and requsted the shopkeeper to come an d install it my home and also told us to pay in the shop in the evening. We took it home and didn't know how how to install. We were waiting for the shopkeeper to arrive. He arrived after 3 hours
. He installed it and told me just to run QBasic, listen Songs and play the only game they had installed in it that is ROADRASH and not to fiddle with the motherboard CD. He left and I enjoyed ROADRASH. It was a day I cannot forget. After somedays I accidently formatted the system and didn't know what to do after that. My father called the shopkeeper and he told that he would come but he came after 4 days and just installed the OS again and everything was well again. I came to know about that and bought it and now I could manage my own computer problems.
Two years after I got curious and installed all the drivers in the motherboard CD, shut it down and left for school. In the afternoon when I came and saw that the system wasn't booting. It asked for some System Disk. I inserted the Win98 CD and the motherboard CD one after another but it didn't work. We called the shopkeepers and they told that the warranty period has become void and we have to bring the CPU there. We took it there. The shopkeeper saw that and told that the motherboard has been burned(I still don't know till today how can a motherboard be burned just by installing drivers). We were tensed and my father scolded me like anything. They took two weeks to repair that and charged Rs.2000. We paid and brought it back. My father locked the motherboard CD in his drawer for good. I was a lot careful after that in running PC.
But one thing I forgot to say to you that after getting my PC, I scored more than 80 everytime in the three years(CLASS VIII,IX,X) and in the final boards I scored 94% in the CS(in 2007) in ICSE Board. My father became very happy and granted my reqeust of upgradation it to a gaming rig. (I was a noob at that time and thought that the processor was the main thing for gaming and not the graphics card. And for this reason I am suffering now
).It was a different shop from where I upgraded next which gave better servicing. It had these specifications and I am running till today.
Pentium D(2.8 GHz)
Asus 865G Motherboard with onboard Graphics
256MB RAM
DVD Combo
2.1 Woofer system
IBALL cabinet
FRONTECH multimedia keyboard,mouse and microphone.
and the monitor was same as before.
The older CPU was sold for Rs. 4000.
The whole new CPU costed Rs. 15,500
* (The vendor installed it and delivered it my home but the sound wasn't playing. He tried all the steps to make it play but failed. He told that the drivers weren't correct in the Mainboard CD. He took it back did something and brought it back again but with sound. He told that he had installed the drivers from Internet. He kept and went back. I was getting curious to know that he installed it from Internet or not, for which after somedays I fomatted Windows and intalled the OS back. I installed the sound drivers but it ran very good and it ran from that Motherboard CD only.) I didn't how could it happen.I was happy that I could play ViceCity and AOE II with very good frame rates. I am using the same computer till now and may upgrade sometime or the other.
But I am having some doubts in my mind till today!!!
1. Can the installation of motherboard drivers burn the motherboard.
2. Once installed the sound drivers from internet, can it run the sound device even after formatting. For details see the point with
* mark above within brackets.
Thankyou for reading my experience .
