Geekiest phone ever?

Has anyone ever had a bad/weird eBay experience seeling computer stuff? I've got someone who says they want to buy my Powerbook, and I keep telling him to just go bid, but he keeps saying he wants to Paypal me the money directly.

Don't do it. In fact, report him to eBay abuse. It's likely some sort of scam.

I reported him. We will see what happens now. I checked out his profile - everyone he's ever bought from is no longer registered. Bad sign. Thanks for confirming the gut feeling I had.

Well that just shit on my whole day.

I bought a bunch of stuff yesterday, including a new graphics card. a GeForce 7300gs with 256mg of video RAM.

This morning, I went to install the thing.

I have PCI slots and an AGP slot, but no PCI Express slots.

I hope Best Buy takes it back, and I hope they have a video card in my price range that will fit in either a PCI or AGP slot.

CRANKY!

I think PCI Express stuff tends to be more expensive than the older AGP and PCI stuff, so you should be in luck.

I think PCI Express stuff tends to be more expensive than the older AGP and PCI stuff, so you should be in luck.

That's been my experience too.

PCI Express 2.0 released.

I think PCI Express stuff tends to be more expensive than the older AGP and PCI stuff, so you should be in luck.

Yeah, a quick check online seemed to indicate that was true, as well. I was actually out of the loop enough to have had no idea there was such a thing.

Also, looking at the back of my Best Buy receipt, with all the terms and conditions and stuff, there's lots of products that would be a pain in the ass to return (especially software, which I can apparently only exchange for exactly the same program), but graphics cards are not in fact one of them. I should be able to return this product for a full refund or (as I plan) an exchange for a graphics card that fits in my computer. Dammit.

So, I have successfully exchanged my incompatible graphics card for one that actually fits in my motherboard's AGP slot. Later tonight I will swap it out with the old one.

Which brings me to a new tech question:

As I said upthread, I recently bought a new hard drive (that's almost four times larger than my previous TWO hard drives combined), pulled the two old ones out, put the new one in, and put a new install of XP Pro on the disk. (Part of the reson for this is that this computer was a hand-me-down that came without the install disks, and I was tired of the constant threat of needing the disk and not having it*) Aside from the OS disk, most of the software on there was stuff I installed, and is easily replaced.

Which brings me to my question:

One particular piece of software on there was a music file converter that I got as a free download through a lead in this very thread. It was free for that one day only, and I'm loathe to give it up.

Is there any way to hunt down all the related registry keys for that particular piece of software, and transfer them over to the new hard disk like it's a real install?

(*I'm also losing a full MS Office Pro install, with Access and Power Point, but thanks to Open Office, I won't be missing that much)

(ETA: Bad post construction much? This is what happens when a post is interrupted by a phone call.)