On Thursday 06 November 2003 08:04 pm, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> >Since the new drive went in the system freezes
> >regularly. This happens randomly and often enough that
> >she uses her boy friend's system for school work.

> I can look at it.  Email me off list.  Probably a bad IDE cable or a
> misconfiguration somewhere such as the BIOS.

About the right vintage for bad capacitors on the motherboard, particularly in 
the power regulation section.

Labor at a good shop is $60+/hr these days, what's it worth to save the 
scraps?