I got a new hard drive and a wi-fi card for the computer though newegg.com, my husband got them for me.  When my last hard drive crashed we where less then a week out of our warranty and HP did not want to help us other then charge us a extra 30 bucks to tell us that the hard drive was not good which we already knew and would want to chard us another 300 bucks if not more to get the computer up and running after the install of the OS system. Our Rabbi was able to get the old drive up with Window Vista, and we were grateful and hoping to put a second hard drive in there but found our we did not need a second hard drive for what I need but found our it was my sound card that was the problem. The sound card is good but not for home recording it not a full duplex sound card meaning that it can’t play and record at the same time.  My old drive while installing different things in it kept crashing on me and became a real pain in the backside. Hubby and I decided it be best to get a new hard drive, and put Vista on the new one. I am finding I like Window Vista. The thing I don’t like about Vista is there no games in Vista Business, personally I like a couple of the games. I can down load those probably.

We Got a Seagate Barracuda 7200 hard drive with 250 Gig of space. It works great not catching or anything. The computer actually works better then when we had XP on it, it running fast. It was simple to install Window Vista, I had no trouble. I just had to open my CDRom and put in the Vista and Vista pretty much did it all for me. It took maybe a hour to do this, they didn’t even want me to call them but that probably because i forgot to activate my copy, and had 3 days lift to activate. The only thing we did not like about the hard drive thing it did not come with the cable for it, and did not say it, at least I do not think it did.

My Wi-Fi card was a ASUS WL-138g V2 PCI Wireless Adapter. I did not even need to use the CD to get this to work. When Vista install it install the drivers and everything I needed and was able to get on line right away. This is great. The internet speed is great better then my Laptop which is good. My desktop computer is in our spear bedroom that I am using for a office recording studio type thing. My Router is in the living room not to far away but has to work through the walls. I have full strength on the Wi-Fi card connectivity. I only had to find my server, and then enter my password and I was all set to go and was able to surf on line quickly.

Newegg once again did a great job of getting our product to us right away, even though hubby never got a email in his in box. I personally think their email went to his junk mail and he deleted it. When he went to their site he was able to find what he needed quickly. To be honest when he was telling me he didn’t get a email I was a little worried because it seemed odd, but we got it on Thursday and I been able to use the computer since Friday. I really do like the computer again. I think hubby and I can build our own computers now. We had our Rabbi install the stuff for us just to make sure it right, but he had us install the OS. I have installed things into computers a few times but never a new hard drive and to be honest that kindof scared me because what I need this computer for. Now in order to deal with the sound card I will need to increase the power supply. Would you believe HP put a 300 W power supply in there, when most makers stop using that like 10 years ago. Most computer have a 500w supply.