I'm building a new computer

[TheForce]

OK I'm back up and running with my gigabyte board and I'm a little pissed at gigabyte. I also got my Logitech G9 mouse today and I love it! Best mouse ever!

First off the packaging for the gigabyte board was top notch. I've never seen anything like it.

First issue I had was that the stock Intel CPU heatsink would not snap down. I almost broke my thumb trying to get the damn thing to snap in place. I had to bend the legs a little to finally get them to snap in place.

Next came first boot. The fans kicked on and nothing on the screen but I got the OK beep from the speaker. So the only thing I could do was replace the video card. The only one I had was a regular PCI. I got the same result with that. So I put in my PCIe card and proceeded to boot. I then thought what if my monitor is just not seeing the signal on first boot. So I turned off my monitor and back on while the PC was still on and BAM I got video. So now I figure that I have to turn on my monitor after the PC. OK thats not a big problem

Next my USB keyboard did not work so I had to go get my PS2 keyboard. Now I'm in the BIOS.

Now I found out why none of my stuff worked. Gigabyte defaulted the first video boot device to PCI! Why my PCI videocard did not display anything I have no clue and who the F@#$ is going to use a PCI card on this board as a first boot?! Anyway I fixed that issue. Next I looked at the legacy USB devices. Guess what? They were set to DISABLE! Then I fixed that issue. Why gigabyte defaulted to all old legacy crap on this performance board I have no clue.

So now everything is working and XP installs just like normal. I have one 250GB drive as my OS and three 250GB drives in a raid 5 with a stripe size of 64KB. I tested the raid drive and it seems to perform just as good as the single 250GB drive. The only real difference is that the CPU works about 1% more with the raid.

Well so far I'm happy with my new setup. I still have to install some drivers and software. Now I just have to see if I can return that SOB asus board or sell it.