Is there any way for me to upgrade my computer before making a backup?

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Actually upgrading will solve another very iritating issue, as I said in another thread, the line in/aux audio on this mobo plays very weak, so when I want to watch TV I have to put my receiver on volume 36 to get the volume I normally get when it's at 12, so if I forget to turn it back down after watching TV any sound will wake up all the neighbours.

Also, I've tested the tape drive on several PCs, and it only had the problem on the ones with an nVidia chipset. This combined with the fact that each and every update nVidia released further worstened or added problems (one caused the nvidia volume control app to crash immediately when I tried to open it, another caused BSODs whenever I went to cahnge the built in nVidia LAN settings) and at least one rendered my PC completely unbootable.

All these added togheter is why I never want to buy an nVidia product ever again, maybe I got a defective motherboard but these problem's don't sound like a hardware defect. I'm sure if any of you had the same experience I had with nVidia you also would have them on your blacklist. I will never excuse them for adding bugs in each update, causing my PC to not start and preventing me from backing up.

I do realize many people highly recommend the nVidia motherboards, perhaps these bugs only applied to my specific model, but there's no way I'm risking going through all this again, which is why my next motherboard which I will be buying very soon absolutely can't have an nVidia chipset, yes maybe it might work, but with the number of problems I've had I'm not risking it again, again if you had the problems I had you'd be bashing them just as much, this is my 2nd worst mo... nope, this is my worst motherboard I ever had, I was going to say my first PC I built with the Ali Magik chipset was worst, but no, it wasn't THAT bad, even though it crashed daily... or maybe it was.