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Ugh… problems with new computer stuff! First there was this stupid beeping coming from my motherboard when it was active, I wasnt sure what it was, and when I called Asus tech support they said “that’s weird” arg! Anyway, i was poking around the ultra cool bios, and i noticed that the powersource was not giving off enough power, so we went to compUSA were we got it and sure enough, it was a faulty source. So we came home last night and installed the new power supply (we had them test it at the store to make sure this one was ok). We booted up, and started installing Gentoo, no beeps… then KERNAL PANIC! Gaaah!!! So the power supply was part of the problem but not the whole problem. At this point I was ready to cry, I mean I had just spent, what $450 on this new stuff and it’s not working. Not to mention I bought it online so taking anything back would be a terrible pain! So i was looking in the motherboard handbook, and in the ram section it said the board was only qualified to handle a short list of pc2700 ram, none of which were 512 mb, and none of it mushkin ram. I really was upset by this point % I started getting ready to ship the stupid ram back (and pay for shipping and the 15% restocking fee) and then buy 2100 ram myself (I told myk I wanted to pay for it since it was my mistake). So just to make sure my ram was useless I gave Asus a call this morning (and of course, their help line is not 1-800, so 2 days in a row i paid for phone calls to them). And when I finally got off hold (which wasnt too bad, they played Enya as hold music, lol) I talked to a fairly knowledgable techie and he said “mushkin ram is great ram, and your board CAN take the 512 chip of 2700, just go into the bios and change the ram setting from Synchronous to Asynchronous” I asked him about the section of the manual on “approved ram” and he assured me that’s just them trying to cover their asses (by not having people put in crappy powerful ram), and that my ram was really good (duh! that’s why i spent so freaking much on it) and it should be fine. YAY!!!!!

So I am waiting for Myk to get home so he can help me through the install of Gentoo or Debian. I am still torn as to which to use… with Debian I get a fast install, and the stability that we have come to know and love from the wide world of Debian… Plus a lot of our friends use it, so when I had problems I wouldn’t have to look far for help. But Gentoo is just so cool! I dont know, I have a tendancy of going through and making sure I know how everything works, and I am afraid on a system that is still in testing like Gentoo I’m probably going to break all sorts of things, hehe. But emerge rocks! Hehe… Oh did I mention Gentoo takes like, HOURS to compile? I think it takes something like 5 hours at least… on a 2 ghz machine %s plus compiling all the things i need (like enlightenment) just to run the silly thing… gah I just don’t know, I’ll keep you posted tho ;)

So right now I am using Myk’s computer, I think he is seriously paranoid when I use his computer, so I am just using a terminal, and I am doing all my surfing through links in my webserver shell, LOL. Yep, that means this is my first xanga entry done with a textual browser! It’s interesting… (%

I miss my computer! Hopefully by tomorrow we will have it up and running, I’ll reinstall win2k this weekend on my little (12 gig) harddrive so next weekend when we go to the LAN party I will be all prepared, with my new kickass system! (that’s another reason I am so glad all my problems are resolved, if I had to order new ram it probably wouldnt come til next thursday, and there is no way my system would be completely configured enough for a lan party in two days!). Right, so I am gonna go read now, since there isn’t much else to do with my computer down and all *wanders off*

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