I'm posting from teh new machine! Funny cuz I was so frustrated on the
umpteenth XP install that I decided not to call my computer Riddick as in all the other attempts, and called it Crematoria instead (that's the really nasty hot planet/prison from
The Chronicles Of Riddick). Hey, what can I say, I ain't changing it now. Besides, that freed up Riddick for my user account. Hehee.
I think the second ram slot in the motherboard is bad... the computer is now quite happy with itself once I figured that out and split up the RAM sticks into the first and third slots. Well, it's happy other than the onboard sound card refuses to work (dunno what's up with that) but the Soundblaster PCI card I stuck in there is working fine. Without having to hunt down drivers on the net. That's *one* good thing for XP. XP Good Things 1, XP Crap Things 29019823.
Oh wells, teh new machine is about a 2.2ghz ASUS with 1 gig of ram, a 128mb GeForce MX 4000, and a DVDR/W. And for some reason I keep expecting it to blow up in my face. But after 2 nights of hell in hardware/operating systems, I guess I'll give this thing a good run for it's money and see if it'll install/run EverQuest without dying. GO PC GO! Oh and once again, thanks to
blackmanta for the tower/motherboard. ♥
Now somebody bless this thing with some kinda luck mantra so it keeps playing nice. LOL. And massive, massive kudos to
this guy for publishing exactly what I needed. (Not only did it get XP to install completely and without error, but it helped lead to my discovery of the second memory slot issue.)