I went out and bought a half decent set of kit to make a good ‘bang for the buck’ system. It lasted 2 weeks and then came screeching to a halt one evening. Every effort made after that got me to the same hang point ‘detecting USB controllers’. So I go online and look for references to the motherboard. Several people with the same problem who have had various luck resetting the BIOS to get past the issue.
Reset the bios… now I don’t even have text – I have the pretty ‘quiet boot’ screen. Which means I can’t even see any of the failed diagnostics.
I bought a replacement GPU – small, and low powered and it’s given me no love at all. I’m still in the same place. So I’ve decided to buy a new motherboard. The old one had been flakey since the get-go.
I had an ASUS P5KC – with the most insane form of RAID I’ve ever seen in a motherboard. The replacement is an Asus P5Q. Granted the motherboard types are a bit different, but the big thing I get is RAID-1. The other minor thing is that I get a little embedded Linux.
I hope I don’t need to reinstall Vista, as it was a pain in the ass. Mind you I think I screwed up by making the disk a dynamic volume (!!!!!) twit that I am.
If it wasn't for carbon-14, I wouldn't date at all