Ok. So ever since a big storm hit my town, my sister's graphics card had shorted out or something, despite being on a surge protector. It was only the morning after, when she tried booting up her computer, that we found out that the power outage and large series of brown-outs had killed her graphics card.
My dad ordered a new graphics card for her, and it came in today. It's an ASUS ENGTX460 overclocked card. He tried putting it into her computer, but encountered a series of problems. Apparently, the card was way to big to fit into the small amount of open space in her computer. Secondly, even if it could fit, there would be no way for it to work due to the fact that her computer had a specific power port. That, and the card required 2 power ports, but her computer only supported 1.
As I'm coming home from my art class, my mom says that I "got a new, spiffy graphics card". So I'm assuming that meant I got my sister's new video card, and I was right. My sister's computer had received my old one to take it's place. However, when my dad tried starting up her computer, he received a message telling him the Windows had become corrupted. With that being said, my dad re-installs Windows XP on her computer. As he reboots it, the hard drive is still corrupted. So now he has to reformat the computer's old hard drive and then install XP.
So my dad's plan is to set a hard drive from one of my old computers as the primary hard drive, and use the native hard drive as secondary. From there, he plans to move all of my sister's files to the temporary drive and then reformat the native drive. Afterwords, he'll move all of the files back to the computer's native drive and see how it goes.
Just throwing this out there, if you've got any suggestions, they're welcome.
