09-04-2008, 03:41 PM
Me included.
So my brother's laptop is dying, right? I decide I don't need a dedicated gaming computer and reconsolidate my parts, taking the systems and rearranging the parts to equalize them so he gets a decent non-powerhogging computer and I do as well. His system works just fine, beautifully in fact. I had a little trouble when I found out the XP disc I dug up was Retail and not a Volume License, but installing Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition for the sole purpose of burning the right XP disc worked out rather well and his system was up and running quickly enough.
My system, with the AM2 motherboard and the DDR2 RAM? I found out, though a hair-pulling circus show of spontaneous shutoffs, freeze-ups, and god knows what other card-juggling faggotry, that somewhere along the way, the PCI bus, with the exception of what's already hardwired, is FUBAR. The only reason it went under the radar until now is because my gaming computer, the one using this board up 'til now, didn't even have any legacy PCI hardware -- all it had were the 8600GTSes in SLI and the aBit airpace wifi card (beautiful little thing, I tell you. I can't believe Newegg stopped carrying it). And as a result, while I can get the system into a decent working condition, Cece doesn't get her Soundblaster or SCSI. :F
And of course Newegg's return policy on the M2N-SLI Deluxe? Limited 30 day policy. I haven't even had this board for a year and unless I take it up with ASUS, I'm fucked if I want anything more than onboard out of my own damn computer. -.- cusscusscusscusscuss
But in other news I'm on a real computer and I can play games again, so I might be on the servers for once. Hooray?
So my brother's laptop is dying, right? I decide I don't need a dedicated gaming computer and reconsolidate my parts, taking the systems and rearranging the parts to equalize them so he gets a decent non-powerhogging computer and I do as well. His system works just fine, beautifully in fact. I had a little trouble when I found out the XP disc I dug up was Retail and not a Volume License, but installing Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition for the sole purpose of burning the right XP disc worked out rather well and his system was up and running quickly enough.
My system, with the AM2 motherboard and the DDR2 RAM? I found out, though a hair-pulling circus show of spontaneous shutoffs, freeze-ups, and god knows what other card-juggling faggotry, that somewhere along the way, the PCI bus, with the exception of what's already hardwired, is FUBAR. The only reason it went under the radar until now is because my gaming computer, the one using this board up 'til now, didn't even have any legacy PCI hardware -- all it had were the 8600GTSes in SLI and the aBit airpace wifi card (beautiful little thing, I tell you. I can't believe Newegg stopped carrying it). And as a result, while I can get the system into a decent working condition, Cece doesn't get her Soundblaster or SCSI. :F
And of course Newegg's return policy on the M2N-SLI Deluxe? Limited 30 day policy. I haven't even had this board for a year and unless I take it up with ASUS, I'm fucked if I want anything more than onboard out of my own damn computer. -.- cusscusscusscusscuss
But in other news I'm on a real computer and I can play games again, so I might be on the servers for once. Hooray?