ackthpt's Journal: It's up, it's running, it resets sometimes, but it's good

ASUS A7V8X SATA/RAID/LAN/Sound/etc.

AMD 2600/333

GEIL 256MB CAS=2 3500 DDR

Seagate Barracuda 80GB and WD Caviar 80GB HDs

TEAC DV-516E

Samsung 172T LCD monitor

USRobotics 56K modem (no DSL or Cablemodem yet, for a few months anyway)

Wacom mouse/pen pad

Cheepie Nvidia graphics card, of some ilk, just enough to get up and going.

CA cheepie $19 set of speakers with a sub, from Circuit City, which work pretty good.

WinXP is installed, and yeah, it's a pain, but it's for work. During a few days off from work I'll get Mandrake 9.0 installed on the WD drive and figure out how to set up dual boot. I can hardly wait to get past this stage of installing drivers, downloading patches, installing software, copying stuff from my old laptop and get to working on some projects which have sat on the back burner so long the pot has all but rusted through. Now if the power just doesn't go out. Big storms passing are passing through and some people have spent 5 days without power.

Mostly off topic from this journal entry

[Sangui5]

But I fould your "People's Republic of California" comment quite amusing.

Good luck with the new equipment. Personally I'd have gotten 2 Seagates, but the newer WD drives seem to be better than the older ones.