my headphones, logitech, which are quality, were cutting out on me and getting uninstalled from the system. It wouldn’t reinstall when plugged in without a significant amount of messing around with the plugs. freakin’ usb troubles.

So I read up on the issue and saw that the best way to deal with it was to update my BIOS. My motherboard is an M2N-E, and the ASUS updater utility never worked worth $#)(*7. As such, I downloaded the files from their site (which also never worked worth $#*&) to my flash drive. I restarted my comp and ran the flash updater utility in the BIOS management system. Worked great until the most recent update that ASUS gave…wrong BIOS warning flashed AFTER IT HAD WIPED MY PREVIOUS BIOS, and then shut down the comp. It checked out fine in the prelim stage.

This meant that I had to take the damned computer apart, take out the CMOS battery and switch a jumper to reset the stored memory to default. Suggested time to let it sit: 5~10 seconds.

Bullshit.

I tried that. I tried 2 minutes. I tried 10 minutes. The computer would start up and hang. Nothing on the monitors, no booting from the cd rom, nothing. So in a bit of a rage, I took out the battery switched the jumper and did the only thing that was left to me. I went to sleep.

I got up this morning and plugged everything back in, and the comp worked fine.

this week = hassles and nothin’ but.