http://geekcake.blogspot.com/2008/09/motherboard-geekcakes.html Yeah - I want one

...@*%&Y# frustration. Everything was finally up and running, just the way I wanted it. I found I liked the enhancements in Vista and life would be good. Until two weeks ago. Thirteen months old and the motherboard went bad. The darn thing wouldn't boot and I was told I might lose all of the programs and data. Can you say "traumatized?" Just think of Wylie Coyote when he knows he's going off the cliff...

Вот такая там мамка: Между прочим, ажно 8Мб оперативки стоит! Видяшка - старый добрый Трайдент 8900, ажно прослезился Баянистый IDE-контроллер Goldstar Prime И шедевральный сопроцессор.

Motherboard has arrived. Now to set to putting everything together. Cross fingers; I hope this goes okay. 8:30 AM 6/10/07 - EDIT: Everything went together like a charm; I was actually done with the upgrade about 3 hours after my initial post time here and have just been messing around on my zippy new system for the last few hours. The OS didn't give me any sass, despite my fears. It's SO neat that...

...review it later. Probably along with NewS's Summertime. Haha, I can already hear DON'T U EVER STOP being played at least once a day now. Anyways...to catch up those who just might be reading... Got new motherboard and hard drive {WOOT 80 GIG}. New motherboard is in and working...but the BIOS needs updating, and apparently it says it won't update without a floppy drive. Why, I dunno. The BIOS is from...

...computers, my favourite machine is still HP Vectra VL 6/333 Series 7 in a desktop composition. This is old good Intel Pentium II processor with frequency of 333 MHz along with originally designed Intel motherboard, PCI and ISA expansion slots, integrated video adapter and many other interesting constructive features. My particular configuration includes 384 MB of physical memory, 20 GB HDD, 52x CD...

So.... last day, my motherboard said: DIED!!! Its my fault. I had tried to plug my stereo system in my audio output, but I have touched to the USB pluggin, so, the computer turned off automatically (security mode). I have restarted, all works fine. I can going on my deskop, etc, but........ my PS/2 output (for keyboard and mouse) is broken. No electricity. :( So, I have called Infoclick, the shop...

... Everything's going to plan. When I get home, I have tea and then rip open the, (giant), cardboard box to revel in what's inside. Trouble is, it wasn't what I was expecting. Rather than send me the motherboard I actually ordered, I'd been sent a beat-up board from another manufacturer. Now, I know that I ordered a B-grade product, (because it was half the price of the A-grade one), and this may have...

...into the bios. When I try both, neither works. It just sits on the same black screen with the bios logo, but never loads anything (including the keyboard/mouse/rom drives). I'm reasonably sure the motherboard (and perhaps the hard drive) needs to be replaced. The main problem I'm having is that I can't send it back to the shop where I bought it (they went out of business). I can build a PC desktop...