Damn it!

Seeing Pete and his new rig, reminded me that I needed to rebuild my old rig for the bosslady (heck, it has only been 9 months). I had an old Tivo unit that DirectTV deemed bad. It had a WD 250GB drive in it, so I yanked and proceeded to install and reload WinXP. Many downloads and reboots later, everything looked good. Nice big hard drive, fresh clean install. The only thing was, it just felt a bit sluggish. Not what I remembered from when I was running WinXP on it. After setting there unplugged all those months, it had lost the clock and BIOS settings. I then proceeded to dork with the timings etc. Had to clear the CMOS a couple of times due to incorrect settings (why did I not write those timings down years back??). The last time I cleared, I simply set the clock and thought the hell with it, it will run fast enough for the bosslady. But it never came back. I pulled the video, the memory, the CPU, everything. And nothing! Looks like I toasted the MB. What a freaking waste of a day. Bad part is, all the components are so old, I can't even buy a new MB to drop them into. Damn It!!