Well as some of you know (or don’t know) I haven’t been on my normal PC for the last three weeks to to a motherboard failure (so I used my Server as a PC instead) but I received my board back yesterday!

This is all very well and good, except that the repair guys seem to have broken more than they fixed

For a start, I can no longer reboot my PC! I have to fully shutdown the computer, wait a few seconds and then boot it up again, or windows does not recognise my Graphics Card properly and I get “glitches” all over the screen. Also, my hardware accelerated sound no longer works. I can’t play any games whether or not Windows has detected my card, as it crashes the PC.

Also, the board often refuses to detect either my shiny new 160GB Maxtor harddisk, or my slightly older 80GB one, also a Maxtor. Both are SerialATA and also in good condition.

Oh yes, last but not least, my memory! It runs at 333MHz when I have my 512MB and 1024MB sticks in… But at 400MHz (which is the normal speed for it) when I only have the 1024MB stick in… So it seems to me that yet another thing is broken! It’s funny though, as I’ve just been using that same stick in my server and it was working fine there…

Anyway, I’m waiting now for a reply to my two thousand character technical support email… Zzz…

Oh yes another thing..: I was forced to reinstall Windows again yesterday… So you’ll have to excuse me from being a little lazy to post on here as I’m still getting the system the way I like it…