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Brando56894 04-25-2006 05:51 PM

yea its pretty good, i tried the dapper drake live install method (it runs from a live cd and boots in kde (for kubuntu) or gnome (for ubuntu) but it takes forever and a day to load and the installation program crashes after step three :(

I'd say go with Breezy Badger since its stable, idk if the distros "health" was degrading or just that POS mobo was being ****** or a combo of the two. Like 2 days ago it started acting stupid, and it would say stuff like "sudo: must be SUID root" or something like that, then yesterday it started happening each time i would use kdesu or sudo. eventually i couldnt run anything.

so i decided to reinstall the stupid thing and that wouldnt work. then i tried to switch out the motherboards and that worked but there was no sound (i ****ed up the bios by using a beta version from asus) so i switched back to the abit mobo and now it doesnt work at all. :mad: first it would tell me that there wasnt a controller on ide channel 2 (wtf is a controller??) so i unplugged one of the cd drives and got rid of that error, then i rebooted and got the cpu bad checksum error and it was liek defaults loaded hit f1 continue or del to enter cmos, but the freakin keyboard wouldnt work! :evil: so here i am in the freakin lounge, and a dead computer in my room.

i could get the bios reflashed for like $5 but i have to send it back to asus and it could take forever for them to get it back here (the semester ends on the 13th) or i could buy an AMD 64 x2, a new mobo, and new ram :D the question is what do u think i should do?? my **** IS kinda old and needs an update :D the newest thing i have is the 3.2ghz processer my dad got me for christmas... im about to price these things out. what do u think is a good board to go with? i'm thinkin about goin with one of the asus mid range boards...

Tru2Chevy 04-25-2006 09:01 PM

Gotta get away from that intel stuff man....AMD 64 X2s are were it's at. :D

- Justin

Brando56894 04-26-2006 07:53 PM

very true, but then i was thinkin about it lastnight ill be spending about $4-500 if i get the amd64 x2 since i would need the processor (im gettin the 3800 since its the cheapest) which is about $250 i think, the asus mobo i was looking at (the one before the nvidia SLI) was about $100, i would most likely need new ram so that an easy $1-200 right there, and i was wondering this do the new boards of AGP slots? i dont think they do since PCI-E x16 is kinda becomming the standard. so theres another $1-200 right there (unless it has integrated video, which i could live with for a lil while) so thats around $500 right there! i need to give bill $200 for the tune, mufflex $30 for the W/B bung, had to drop $160 cuz my ****en car got towed from willy p, and I still have to pay for that stupid speeding ticket i got like 1.5 months ago! so as of right now im thinkin about just getting the chip reflashed. another thing i was thinkin about is should i send the chip to asus and wait for go knows how long and only spend $5 or buy it from a website for like $25 and get like next or 3rd day shipping? cuz being w/o a computer really sucks...

Tru2Chevy 04-27-2006 12:05 PM

Build the AMD system....put it on a credit card. Living happily in debt is the American way. :D

- Justin

Brando56894 04-27-2006 04:10 PM

yea i was gonna throw the idea at my dad today to see what he thinks, since i dont really have a CC just a debit card... hopefully he'll go for it

:w00t: he said i could time to build my beast :twisted: i was gonna hold out on some stuff but now that i think about it, im gonna go all out! of course im getting the essentials, but i might get a soundcard and a new powersupply too if they arent too much. i have my surround sound hooked up by the cables that came with my old radeon AIW :lol: ill post up what im finally gonna get.


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