I swear, everyone's having computer issues

[Ceceil Felias]

Me included.

So my brother's laptop is dying, right? I decide I don't need a dedicated gaming computer and reconsolidate my parts, taking the systems and rearranging the parts to equalize them so he gets a decent non-powerhogging computer and I do as well. His system works just fine, beautifully in fact. I had a little trouble when I found out the XP disc I dug up was Retail and not a Volume License, but installing Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition for the sole purpose of burning the right XP disc worked out rather well and his system was up and running quickly enough.

My system, with the AM2 motherboard and the DDR2 RAM? I found out, though a hair-pulling circus show of spontaneous shutoffs, freeze-ups, and god knows what other card-juggling faggotry, that somewhere along the way, the PCI bus, with the exception of what's already hardwired, is FUBAR. The only reason it went under the radar until now is because my gaming computer, the one using this board up 'til now, didn't even have any legacy PCI hardware -- all it had were the 8600GTSes in SLI and the aBit airpace wifi card (beautiful little thing, I tell you. I can't believe Newegg stopped carrying it). And as a result, while I can get the system into a decent working condition, Cece doesn't get her Soundblaster or SCSI. :F

And of course Newegg's return policy on the M2N-SLI Deluxe? Limited 30 day policy. I haven't even had this board for a year and unless I take it up with ASUS, I'm fucked if I want anything more than onboard out of my own damn computer. -.- cusscusscusscusscuss

But in other news I'm on a real computer and I can play games again, so I might be on the servers for once. Hooray?

[CaffeinePowered]

And of course Newegg's return policy on the M2N-SLI Deluxe? Limited 30 day policy. I haven't even had this board for a year and unless I take it up with ASUS, I'm fucked if I want anything more than onboard out of my own damn computer. -.- cusscusscusscusscuss

But in other news I'm on a real computer and I can play games again, so I might be on the servers for once. Hooray?

I have an M2N32-SLI Deluxe


http://support.asus.com/repair/repair.as...uage=en-us


Asus has 3 year warranties on all their motherboards, just give them a call and they'll give you an RMA number

[Ceceil Felias]

M2N-SLI Deluxe ain't an M2N32-SLI Deluxe, hun. ;P

And the big trick is that I won't have a computer to do anything on if I do get an RMA and ship my board out. :F

[CaffeinePowered]

M2N-SLI Deluxe ain't an M2N32-SLI Deluxe, hun. ;P

And the big trick is that I won't have a computer to do anything on if I do get an RMA and ship my board out. :F

Ask for cross shipping, they send you board, replace, then send in RMA

[hawtpawkithero]

Mine's been acting weird lately too. Explorer.exe loves to crash on me.

[Surf314]

Mine's been acting weird lately too. Explorer.exe loves to crash on me.

Replace it with that black box thing  8)

[Darklink]

I seriously need to reinstall windows, but my Dad managed to lose the disc for it |:.

[Surf314]

I seriously need to reinstall windows, but my Dad managed to lose the disc for it |:.

I have that exact some problem, I want to put xp back on my desktop and I can't find the disk.  I still have the cd-key though, its on a sticker on my case.

[Darklink]

[quote author=Darklink link=topic=1334.msg36998#msg36998 date=1220810280]
I seriously need to reinstall windows, but my Dad managed to lose the disc for it |:.

I have that exact some problem, I want to put xp back on my desktop and I can't find the disk.  I still have the cd-key though, its on a sticker on my case.
[/quote]Yeah. Around 6 years on a family computer without a reinstall makes the thing pretty shitty. Hopefully I can get a replacement from Dell or something.

[Geoff]

[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1334.msg37026#msg37026 date=1220817320]
[quote author=Darklink link=topic=1334.msg36998#msg36998 date=1220810280]
I seriously need to reinstall windows, but my Dad managed to lose the disc for it |:.

I have that exact some problem, I want to put xp back on my desktop and I can't find the disk.  I still have the cd-key though, its on a sticker on my case.
[/quote]Yeah. Around 6 years on a family computer without a reinstall makes the thing pretty shitty. Hopefully I can get a replacement from Dell or something.
[/quote]


TinyXP Platinum Edition 2.

Also, I have about 7 legit disc's of XP just laying around.

[KarthXLR]

My computer cussed at me.

I think I was eating plastic at the time....

[A. Crow]

Mine's been acting weird lately too. Explorer.exe loves to crash on me.

on only certain folders?  but always on them?  Yeah, this shit started happening to me like a week ago.

I think it has to do with winupdate finally pushing down SP3, that or me putting the side back on my case really did seal the bad joojoo in.

[Darklink]

Now my computer takes like 5 minutes to switch between users :<. It wasn't doing that yesterday when all the user accounts were logged in though >_>. I have no idea what's up.