So, yesterday around 4/5PM my computer took a header, I figured something similar to a blue screen happened or some kind of hang-up caused my computer to freak out, but it was actually my Graphics card frying. I had been using PS pretty hard for the past few days working on my recent Boxarts for Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, and Buso Renkin (you can check out my progress thus far here [link] ), sadly I was in the process of making a higher resolution image to post on here of the latest version when everything went awry.

I just wish I had saved my current .PSD's onto one of my flash drives, but seriously who would've predicted that something like this would happen out of the blue... At least it's not one of my HDD's or any of my PCI cards! XD

Hopefully some, if not all, of the spare/extra computer parts that my friend will be giving me will help me out of this jam.

Honestly I've got new parts (which I'll list in a moment), but I lack a PSU powerful enough to run everything, and sadly if I were to get a new PSU I'd also need to get a new tower; since mine isn't built for a bottom loaded PSU (since it seems like all new PSU's available are Bottom load only).


"New" Computer Parts/Set-up:

WinXP SP3 or Win7 (Not entirely sure which one I should use in my new build)
AMD Phenom II x4 CPU
Ballistix 2Gb RAM (x2)
MSI 890GXM-G65 (Motherboard)
Ati Radeon X1800 GTO [or] ZOTAC GeForce GTS250 ECO (Graphics Cards)
230Gb HDD (x2) {SATA
60Gb HDD {SATA
250Gb HDD {PATA/IDE
LG CD/DVD Drive {PATA/IDE

Although right now this is only listing what I have on-hand, I might make an updated list after I get a hold of those spare parts from my friend (as of Thurs. 9/27/2012)

[Update on Computer Status]
I was able to find an old Graphics card that I had, I can't view videos in the same quality that I'm used to but overall it's doing it's job properly, so on that note my computer is alive once again. But on a secondary note, it seems that out of my "New" computer parts, my Motherboard was actually DOA, and since I got it not only secondhand, but also refurbished I can't just return it and get a replacement. So, it will be a while longer before I can upgrade my computer, but I'm still going to try my best to pump out some new work (not just cases but some hand drawn stuff aswell)

And also happy new year everyone! (Even though it's 18 days late lol!)