Well new computer day two, and I’m still trying to work out all the bugs. I thought I had it working good until we went to Best Buy and picked up The Animatrix, and James Bond Die Another Day. Kelly really had no interest in watching Animatrix so I was going to watch it on my PC. But I couldn’t figure out how to get DMA enabled on my DVD-ROM drive. It used to be you just click on the drive you want DMA enabled on in the device manager, and you were done. But not in XP, and not on an nForce mobo. So I flashed the BIOS hoping that it would help a little bit, and after a brief scare (Awdflash locked up while reprogramming the BIOS… Yikes!) I got the newest BIOS installed. You know what I decided?
FLOPPY DRIVES ARE CRAP!
But you have to have one to flash your BIOS. So now I’m reinstalling XP (for the third time) in hopes that I can get it all right this time around. UPS delivered all my fans at about 2 or 3 this afternoon, and I got them all installed, I even cracked open my power supply and took out the crappy black fan that was in there, and put a crispy new blue LED fan in there. I took some pics of the rig all lit up and it looks great.
OK that is enough for now.