Well it’s been cool here, cold for some, mid-30′s I enjoy it wearing shorts and t-shirts. I know May and the rest of the “summer” is close and I’ll complain everyday about how hot it is.

Well I began building a new computer or so I thought. After getting the rest of the parts the assembly began. The assembly went well, I knew going into this I would have some issues as reported by other with the same motherboard. I had created a floppy with the last Rom Bios file and flashed it as soon as I could get a boot screen. Well that went without a hitch. Before and after the flash I had issues with it seeing any keyboard (USB or PS/2) Well like I said I eventually got the bios update to work. From there things went pretty good. I was able to begin loading XP-64 and that finished and I was able to login and defrag the drive etc. I then decided to load the drivers (newest from the aBit site). This seem to also go well but I was never able to finish upon a reboot I received an error 9.0 (mistaken it to 90 at first). Well after much searching and reading and trying all of the recommendations I surrendered to the mighty error code. This has to be the worse error code for Abit users. It means the the internal Abit code is handing off to the BIOS code and you are stuck. A CMOS reset does not work using any idea suggested including the manual. Without a reset you can not boot to a floppy and reflash forward or backward. I have set up an eRMA with Abit and am waiting for approval. One other thing to mention I had purchased 2 2G dimms for this system. Putting in both caused a hung system before total post. I then tried them one at a time and used different slots, long story short one dimm was bad. So since there were in a package together the also got RMA’d.

So now I sit here looking at a power supply, a 8800GTS video card and a quad code CPU. So I am in a holding pattern until all returns. Bummer

So when I get to finish the PC it will consist of:

Abit IN9 32Max Wifi
8G DDR2 PC800 Memory
EVGA 320M 8800GTS video card
PCPower&Cooling 750W power supply
5Tb of disks.