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Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels

Finally got rid of my headache yesterday %) Ended up going to Mailboxes Etc to send out the stuff to newegg for the exchange… FedEx is evil! It cost me almost $40 to send the stuff back!!! like 35 something for shipping, plus the $4 for $500 of insurance I needed to have on it. And this is just standard ground delivery, the overnight shipping was $176! The delivery date is thursday, which is nice, ’cause that means if newegg isnt too backed up with returns I should get my new stuff by mid-next week.

I spent the morning looking for information on the problems we were having with the board. I found out a lot of interesting things… For one I found out that this board apparently has some memory issues, but I NEVER knew anything about this until I specifically did a search for it, which is disappointing. They SAY it should be fixed in an upcoming BIOS upgrade, so we’ll wait and see. They say for the time being if there are problems I should set my ram settings at 133 mhz instead of 166 (for my DDR333 ram) which is frustrating ’cause I paid for the faster ram *shrugs* luckily I’m not too much of a stickler on the speed of ram so I can stand to wait for a bios upgrade. Also I found out that under optimal conditions this board unofficially supporst DDR400 ram *and there was much overclockers rejoicing* So in short, I found out that the ram probably was not faulty, it was board problems. I also did some research into the “Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7” error we were getting during heavy system load (first OS compile). I now don’t think it was what was causing my crashes, since a lot of people have this problem and just ignore it because it doesnt cause problems. The only people who had real problems were ones who had their IRQ7 port being shared (which I did not, and most people didn’t, that’s part of the reason the error is so odd). But it’s not board, processor, or chipset specific. It happens with all sorts of hardware, and I was not really able to find a definative solution. Anyway, I think when I get my parts back we are going to start out by installing windows XP just to TEST everything, since that is the OS that supports what we use and most people using the messageboards I looked at used that. I’ll delete it after, but just to make sure everything is running fine… *shrugs*

I also went looking for drivers for the onboard sound card and lan card.. a search that ended up a bit disappointing. I was unable to find a soundcard driver from SiS, they support the two previous chipsets (SiS961 and SiS962) with drivers for linux, but not mine. I guess this isn’t *too* bad, in the bios it’s easy to disable the onboard sound and just install my SB Live card… that’s a better card than the onboard one anyway, it’s just it feels like a waste having a card in there I can’t use, ya’know? I was lucky to find support for the lan card however, so I’ll just use the onboard lan until we break the
boundries of 10/100 mb across lan transfers ;)

Anyway, the new Wallace and Gromit movies should have been released today %D! So I am gonna wander into windows to watch them (no quicktime for linux… bleh!). *wanders*

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