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[Brando56894]

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. 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! 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 the question is what do u think i should do?? my **** IS kinda old and needs an update 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]

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

- Justin

[Brando56894]

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]

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

- Justin

[Brando56894]

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

he said i could time to build my beast 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 ill post up what im finally gonna get.