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02/09/2005 Entry: "New box"

After a few days of knuckle-biting suspense, I am back on line with my newer setup. I have upped to an Athlon xp 2000, which is not all that fast compared to what is out there now, but still a 300% speedup from my last cpu.
I had to reinstall winders, as I now have a new motherboard, but at least a reformat was not needed. The most confusing thing was that the new system would suddenly freeze up while I was moving the mouse. The mouse would freeze looking half-arrow, half-text symbol every time. It turns out that this is probably the result of a little spat between mouse and graphic card. Knocking the hardware acceleration setting of the graphic card down by one notch seems to have solved that issue.

However, the MS site is bogged down right now, so I am having a hard time getting those important updates. So I am reluctant to fool around with IE and Outlook for the time being. Your emails may go unanswered for a few days until I get the ship up and completely running.