so much for the myth of the quick reinstall

now playing: patty smyth, "no mistakes"


well, tonight was the night i took care of my own house for once...i hauled my three-foot tall computer into the kitchen, took the cover off, and started my usual troubleshooting routine...i didn't think it was going to be anything major, but i'm getting a strange error, and this is a MoBo that has the cute little 4-LED diagnostic card built in to it, and it's telling me that there's a parity error somewhere. i tried resetting the BIOS to the factory default settings, and removed everything from the board but the proc, RAM, and video card, to no avail.

so this one seems to be ready to prove out the old "save the best for last" adage. this one isn't gonna be a one-nighter.

which is fine...i knew i was going to be reinstalling windows anyway, now it just makes migrating a couple of things a little more interesting.

sooo...i guess i'll go grab my tools and change some guitar strings and go to bed.


tomorrow's another day.


oh, shit - i almost forgot!


go check this out. you'll piss your pants.