[AGL] philosophical dog

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Gerry,

Why aren't you rebuilding that 301i Beemer in the shop?

Assembling PCs are so finicky. Yesterday I installed an operating system on the 
120G harddrive Trey gave me. He also gave me the Pentium 4 2.66Mhz mainchip, 
the nice case, and a junk motherboard and memory he bought at Frye's. Took 
months to figure out what was broken here, the motherboard? the memory? the 
main chip? the harddrive?

As Gerry knows, half of so called diagnostics is just replacing with a known 
good part and see what happens.

Long story short, bought a used Asus motherboard on Ebay and a 512Mb stick of RAM
through Amazon, installed operating system yesterday. but this morning the BIOS 
menu was frozen. Now that is some bad s**t. happy to report that after disconnecting
harddrive, CD drive and legacy floppy drive, i was able to change the boot up sequence
in the BIOS. did i say finicky?

Plato said that dogs were the most philosophical animal.

Mike

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