I decided to give my girlfriend the gift of a home Theater PC. So far I have spent $100 on a refurbished HP Compaq desktop PC, from MicroCenter. Given all of the spare parts and open-source software available to me, this will only cost me $100, if everything goes according to plan.
So far, I have upgraded the RAM from 1GB to 2GB. The 40GB HDD is proving to be a little bit of a pain in the ass. I got errors on a disk check that erased the MFT. I'm currently trying to restore the partition table; and hopefully, I will not have to do a clean install. Additionally, I hope that I can use the 40GB HDD as the OS drive, with the 200GB HDD as additional storage. If not, then the 200 GB HDD will be the only drive.
As far as controlling the PC, I do not want wires, not do I want to buy a wireless KB/mouse solution, but thanks to synergy, I can use an existing laptop and share its KB/mouse via wifi.
I am excited about this. I just hope I can finish this project in time to watch the Jets game tomorrow.
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