I got a question the other day about where things were with the computer.  Well, Asus has gotten around to completing and now shipping the new A8R32-MVP (opposed to my lowly and possibly buggy A8R-MVP).  Newegg.com has it in stock as of this weekend, so I should be upgrading my system on Thursday or Friday.

Of course this will mean I will have to reinstall all the hardware and then the OS and then applications again.  It will also mean I am one step closer to having enough extra hardware to open my own bloody store.

In regards to the problems that have plagued me since I built this system, I have found that once I get the system up and running, if it does not die in the first day, it is stable and is fine.  I have had the box running now for maybe two weeks without a crash, which is nice.  I have even rebooted a few times for driver updates without issue.

I think I read somewhere about some of the AMD FX CPUs having issues with cold boots. If this is the case, it would seem this is the culprit for at least some of my minor woes.  I still cannot get get the mic to work though. The OS just does not recognize that there is one, regardless of which sound card or microphone I use. 

On a different note, I checked out a new D&D group yesterday with mixed results... I will likely give it another shot before cementing my opinion and explaining my reservations.  Beyond that, nothing terribly exciting is happening here, which is just fine with me.