How to fry a motherboard in 2 easy steps....
Or....everything you wanted to know about electricity but where afraid to ask.......YIKES
Seems for whatever reason my motherboard decided that yesterday was a good day to give up the ghost...shuffle off it's im-mortal coil....become an un-motherboard...etc.... Spent ALL day re-building the system. Thank goodness for backups. I've been a software developer for about 18 years now. In that time I've had just about every possible disaster I care to think about (and some I'd just rather not). Everything from bottles of coke spillt inside a case (*shudder*) to my dog running by my desk, getting caught on a cable and destroying my monitor. Out of this I've learned one major lesson.....Make Sure you have an up to date backup. For some odd reason those disasters never seem to pick convenient times to rear their ugly fiendish heads. So I take yesterdays happening in a laid back manner because (other then the cost of the motherboard and the time it took to re-build everything) I didn't lose anything...this time.
As for which motherboard did I buy? I ended up getting a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP board as it was the one recommended on Tom's Hardware page. I also took advantage of the fact that it has built in RAID-0 support and striped two 40 gigabyte drives (actually one is a 60 but because of the striping is now considered a 40...). The system is fast, stable and so far doesn't have any smoke coming out of it.....further updates as our story progresses....hehe
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