After returning 2 motherboards, one CPU and one power supply, my new system is finally booting… at least to the BIOS screens. I haven’t gotten as far as configuring the SATA RAID drives, or installing XP yet. Indications are that the power supply was at fault.
So, this weekend I hope to finish the setup and […]

I’ve spent a week trying to put together my new AMD system. First I had it working, then I flashed the BIOS because the Asus motherboard manual said to do so. The motherboard never worked after that!
I returned the motherboard and now it fails the CPU test. So I sent back the CPU for a […]

Hello everyone.
We’re back from our honeymoon in Hawaii, having spent a week on Maui and a week on the so-called Big Island. We totally fell in love with the Big Island - what a beautiful part of Earth.
I plan to upload a gallery of Hawaii pictures to the web, but it might have to wait […]