So today I needed to run some errands. I had to get a hole patched in my tire, then get my alignment fixed, go to the post office to mail Paul a dvd that I had unknowingly stolen, go to the bank (since it’s aready time to pay rent again) etc…

Well funny story, the guys I went to for alignment, couldn’t fix my alignment. They said… yes, it definately pulls to the right, but it is actually body work that is causing it and they could not fix that. They did however tell me that it wasn’t effecting my tires at all (which I have a hard time believing), but just to be thorough they rotated my tires for free and didn’t charge me for the alignment (or lack there of).

Well then my motherboard finally showed up~!!!!! Yeah, Yippie, WOOHOO… I can finally stop using this ram-lacking, no-multitasking, whore of a laptop!

I took my sweet time assembling the computer to make sure it was grounded well, and that everything was just perfect. When I was finally ready to turn it on, the video didn’t work. This did NOT make me happy!!!! I spent a bunch of time troubleshooting it and nothing seemed to help. So I called MSI and talked with their tech support for awhile.

Their tech support was unable to figure out any problems so they wanted me to send it back AGAIN. I mean the guy had me pull every component out, and even pull the motherboard out of the case just to try to test this, but it did not help.

Well I had one more thought that he didn’t and I pulled off the processor cooling device and noticed that the processor was stuck to it and seemed to have too much thermal paste. So I cleaned most of that off and tried it very quickly without a cooling device (do not ever do this for more than 30 seconds or the processor will overheat). It turned on, so I turned the computer off and realigned everything and got the system up and running, extremely happy to not have to send it back (of course still annoyed that I had just taken everything apart and had to put it all back together).

Well I installed XP, didn’t have any problems while it installed, and seemed to get all my software running without any problems at all. Towards the end of the night it crashed… once… but only once, and perhaps it was my own fault for installing one of the corrupted pieces of software, since I know everything was bad on my appz, but I installed one thing anyways thinking it might have been small enough to avoid crc errors.

Well whatever, I am glad to have it back and working and will be very happy to not have to write computer rant posts anymore….