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My bushings, motherboard, and guitar supplies all came yesterday. I got home from class and the bushings were sitting on the door step (damn it, FedEx green!), and not fifteen minutes later FedEx Ground hammers on our door. A little while after that, I went to Home Depot and checked the mail on the way out. My Stewart-McDonald order was sitting there, with a smile on its face. It was happy to see me.

Now I can begin the long process of putting the finishing touches on my bass. I have but one item left to get in order to make the thing functional.

I had an adventure last night with my new motherboard. Its the first AMD board Ive encountered that uses the four-prong 12v molex connector common on Intel boards. Turns out they use that little fucker to power the CPU, and without it your PC doesnt so much want to function. After I discovered that little error, I moved on. Installation went off without a breeze, until I tried to connect to our LAN. *vpt* PC reboots. Wtf? I try again; same thing. As soon as there is network connectivity the PC reboots.

I tried different things, including using the PCI NIC that I had been using with my previous board, all to no avail. Different cards, different drivers, new drivers, old drivers, etc. I turned chipsets off, I turned them back on. No matter what Ethernet interface I used, the little shit would kick over and reboot as soon as a packet moved. Eventually, I downloaded DirectX 9, installed the newest nForce drivers, installed the newest RealTek 8100C LAN chipset driver, and crossed my fingers. It worked.

There mustve been some sort of bad ju-ju going on with the OEM nForce drivers that came from Gigabyte and the RealTek LAN chipset drivers.