The monitor is only connected by the wires, and I plan to disconnect those wires from the motherboard and replace it with a 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor/TV, which I'll purchase online next friday. Right now I have to prop up the monitor with something or it won't stand up. Right now it's being propped up by a suit case.
My laptop's keyboard no longer works, so I bought a wireless USB keyboard to replace it. I removed and disconnected the old keyboard... because my computer tends to overheat after an hour or so of gaming (or any other CPU-intense process, for example converting music files). Getting rid of the keyboard increased the air circulation, reducing the amount of heat in the system.
My computer's DVD drive stopped working a long, long time ago for all practical purposes. It reads DVDs at 0.8x, and CDs at a higher, but equally dismal speed. Burning CDs takes about 20 minutes - and fails about 25% of the time. Burning DVDs doesn't work at all anymore.
So today, I bought an external USB DVD drive, with up to 18x writing speeds. Now I can finally finish watching my South Park DVDs!
On the bright side, this complete and total break-down of my computer has forced me to get a new computer instead of a car. The wireless keyboard and external dvd-drive will be used for the new computer, they're the start of it anyways. Next week I'll purchase the monitor. Hopefully, I'll have the computer finished - one piece at a time - by the end of May.
