If there is a guy out there who looks a touch like James McAvoy and is up to helping a girl with her disaster-computer... could he call me, please?
Kidding! Sort of.
No, (more) seriously: when you say "I'm getting the ASUS", what uh exactly do you mean? Forgive me if you stated it perhaps repeatedly throughout the comments to your previous entry/entries, but... I can't see it. I mean, are you getting a pre-built ASUS brand of desktop computer, or do you just mean that it's mounting an ASUS MB?
May I suggest that you insist that it comes with the most current and/or working drivers and/or BIOS installed? Because many, many, many of my troubles with my current machine derived from the fact that the guys who did the HW installation for me did it using the factory discs from the box, which are NOTORIOUSLY prone to contain waaaaay outdated (i.e. likely bugged) versions of drivers and the such. Which, odds are, wouldn't make life with your new machine as better as you'd expected/loved to.
The good thing is about this is that... you live in the US and, well, I don't know exactly what specs your new machine has, but if it's strong and if it's fast, then chances are you're getting it for roughly 1/3 of the price of what it'd be selling at here/in Italy (and/or possibly in Europe). Bugger that.
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Date: 2009-08-04 10:42 pm (UTC)Kidding! Sort of.
No, (more) seriously: when you say "I'm getting the ASUS", what uh exactly do you mean? Forgive me if you stated it perhaps repeatedly throughout the comments to your previous entry/entries, but... I can't see it. I mean, are you getting a pre-built ASUS brand of desktop computer, or do you just mean that it's mounting an ASUS MB?
May I suggest that you insist that it comes with the most current and/or working drivers and/or BIOS installed? Because many, many, many of my troubles with my current machine derived from the fact that the guys who did the HW installation for me did it using the factory discs from the box, which are NOTORIOUSLY prone to contain waaaaay outdated (i.e. likely bugged) versions of drivers and the such. Which, odds are, wouldn't make life with your new machine as better as you'd expected/loved to.
The good thing is about this is that... you live in the US and, well, I don't know exactly what specs your new machine has, but if it's strong and if it's fast, then chances are you're getting it for roughly 1/3 of the price of what it'd be selling at here/in Italy (and/or possibly in Europe). Bugger that.