You'd think I'd learn...

Okay, once more, because writing stuff down helps me to remember things...

When Windows acts wonky and starts having random BSOD Stop Error crashes, CHECK THE RAM!!!

(Probably would have still needed to reinstall it due to the ACPI issues, but now I'll always wonder... oh well, at least my harddrive is clean! ^_^)

Live, from the new and improved desktop...

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's... Monday night. _{Just doesn't have the same ring to it...}

Anyway, it worked. I'm now on a fresh new clean install of Windows. How fresh? Fresh enough that I need to get SP1 on here. _{And yet despite all that freshness, I still feel dirty... and not in a good way!} I'm up a new motherboard (which hopefully includes functional USB 2.0 ports) and down a gigabyte of RAM--though even that has a silver lining, since now the remaining RAM is free to unleash its full 164-bit dual channel glory (the stuff that died was dragging everything down to 64-bit, so this ought to theoretically be significantly faster. Anyone care to confirm/debunk that for me? Anyone? Bueller?)

Erm, actually, why don't I stop writing about how fresh and clean my install is and just put a big target on my computer with the words "|-|axx0rz \/\/3|c0m3!!1!!1!ONE!!" written on it? At least I've gotten Firefox installed...

(oh yeah, and I seem to have also lost my partition containing all my downloads in some freak formatting accident. So much for not having to re-fetch everything! Ah well. ~stiffens upper lip~ It builds Character! (Tee Em) )