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If things couldn’t fuck up any more, my motherboard went a couple of days ago. More like last week. So at the moment playing with a SuSe Linux version 9.2 (were 9.3 is out and even 10.0!) is a bit annoying. I am not saying that it sucks, just it takes some time to install it (4 or so CDs if you want a GUI) and is a bit slow on the P3 500mhz 128mb ram computer. And if that isn’t bad enough, apparently there is a “DMA Timeout” error that I get when booting. So that takes a little longer until things settle down.

Now more about the motherboard getting fucked up. Well it was my fault for starters. I still haven’t learned the lesson of:

(Me x Tired) + Spare Time = Breaking Stuff

So obviously that formula applied to me the other day while playing with the BIOS. One thing that I *found* annoying was the fact that on the manufacturers site all of the BIOS downloads were pretty much named the same. E.g. GA-7VA, GA-VAX. Well, not named the same, but kind of similar to the tired eye in a rush. So what happened next was that I flashed the BIOS with the one for a different motherboard. Funnily enough it still booted the computer with a few odd beeps now and then but still managed to boot into Windows. I just wasn’t able to actually flash it again because my fucking floppy drive didn’t want to work. I just couldn’t believe that shit. So looks like things were meant to happen that way. Now I had to fork out £50 for a new motherboard, same out, as I don’t have the money at the moment to go for a complete upgrade (new motherboard, new processor etc). I was looking at getting a P4 3.4Ghz+. But they don’t come cheap. So that was the end.

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