OK, My Motherboard was the cause of all the failures?

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Chris

All of the issues with IE7 crashing, Media Player Crashing, I am going to
attribute to the ASUS P5N32 E SLI motherboard I was using.
It just blue screened and died 2 days ago after forcing me to re-activate a
3rd time with the same board.

I have a Builders OEM of Ultimate 32 bit.

My biggest problem is will my copy of Vista still be valid for a change out?

I tried ASUS for the first time in 12 years instead of Intel.
That would seem to have settled my curiosity for good.
The board didn't even last 6 months on stock settings and normal to low use.
This was the second board too the first one died the 1 week I had it, just
quit without post.
I tried giving the benefit of the doubt and used the replacement board.

Any DDR2, Core 2 Quad, PCI-E, Gigabit LAN, SATA2 - SATA3 recommendations
would be appreciated.
The biggest problem I had was that diagnostics never revealed anything
wrong.
But regular use was driving me nuts and I was blaming Vista when in fact it
was bad hardware.
I tried 2 different sets of memory, 2 different well rated power supplies, 2
different video cards, excessive cooling fans,
diagnostic after diagnostic, nothing ever gave itself away to being the
flaw.
 
Chris;
You will be installing Windows Vista on the same computer just a
different motherboard.
After installing Windows Vista attempt internet activation.
If that fails, use phone activation.
Call Microsoft at the displayed number for your region, usually done
in less than 10 minutes.
 
Thanks Jupiter =)
My only worries were that the other board had me go through 3 activations.
2 because I got a replacement board the first week, a 3rd trying the SP1 RC1, and the day after I reactivated, it wanted activated again!!
I was pulling my hair out because I kept getting errors but diagnostics said nothing was wrong.
Yes this is all the same PC single build.
I appreciate it if Microsoft bares with me over this painful experience.
I just want to format a new drive so I can recover my data.
I was just getting ready to back it all up to DVD before formatting when it died.
This little Slimline Pavilion doesn't have the space for the extra drive to grab everything off my Vista drive if even possible since my HP has Media Center 2005.
If HP built one with a quad core and an 8800 GT 512 MB onboard I wouldn't be building anymore.
Be the closest thing to console PC ever.

Chris;
You will be installing Windows Vista on the same computer just a
different motherboard.
After installing Windows Vista attempt internet activation.
If that fails, use phone activation.
Call Microsoft at the displayed number for your region, usually done
in less than 10 minutes.
 
Chris;
Don't activate until you have to.
Then you may eliminate an extra activation because of changes.

In any case, you should have no problem activating since you can
activate an unlimited number of times on the same computer.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar


Thanks Jupiter =)
My only worries were that the other board had me go through 3
activations.
2 because I got a replacement board the first week, a 3rd trying the
SP1 RC1, and the day after I reactivated, it wanted activated again!!
I was pulling my hair out because I kept getting errors but
diagnostics said nothing was wrong.
Yes this is all the same PC single build.
I appreciate it if Microsoft bares with me over this painful
experience.
I just want to format a new drive so I can recover my data.
I was just getting ready to back it all up to DVD before formatting
when it died.
This little Slimline Pavilion doesn't have the space for the extra
drive to grab everything off my Vista drive if even possible since my
HP has Media Center 2005.
If HP built one with a quad core and an 8800 GT 512 MB onboard I
wouldn't be building anymore.
Be the closest thing to console PC ever.
 
I'm all set with an Intel DG33TL instead of the ASUS board.
Went to a small form factor case, putting the new RMA board up for sale.
12 years of building PC's I dared to try someone besides Intel and got what
I feared.
Even the installation went smoother, let alone, Intel restarted for every
driver modification.
My issues would seem gone other than still annoyed by some of the UAC
features.
Adjusting it to be more tolerable loses functionality however instead of
making it just less annoying.
I hope the UAC gets some user friendly tweaks with SP1's final release.
Pretty please? =)
 
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