Roasted the Motherboard, good-bye Poker Tracker hands.

[BigPhish]

[JackLucifer]

[BigPhish]

Well, in the end of it (not quite, it's not over yet), I managed to get the computer running and attached to my home network. Last night it spent its time moving all of my important data to another box.

Since I changed motherboards and processor architectures, I'm surprised I even got that to work. After I installed my video driver, the stupid thing kept crashing every time I clicked the mouse. I finally got around to turning off Hyperthreading and it stabilized enough to do the data backup.

Now I'm worried though. There's not much point in fast Intel processors if you have to turn off Hyperthreading. I'm hopeful that it's only a problem because of the way I forced the OS back onto itself. We'll see tonight when I format the drive and start from scratch.

There are two potentially bad scenarios though. The first that the latest drivers for GEForce cards (specifically the 5900/256) are incompatible with HT under my hardware configuration. The second is that this particular combination of hardware is incompatible with HT under Windows XP.

The saga continues tonight...

[JDLush]

[BigPhish]

Hah! Tha'ts been a challenge. The MOBO is MSI, which has a Taiwanese web site. It's ugly. :S

Never again MSI.