My brand-new motherboard -- an Asus A7V266e -- is dead. I'd been having a bunch of trouble with my shiny new system in the last few weeks and I didn't know why. I've finally swapped out every PCI card and peripheral, leaving only the motherboard intact, and the same problems persisted. (Sporadic booting troubles, spontaneous reboots, lockups, etc.) I've e-mailed Asus to see what to do. This is my first purchase from Asus, so I'm a bit nervous. I gather that they're a reputable company (otherwise I wouldn't have bought their motherboard), but I'm guessing that it'll take something like six weeks until they've got this old motherboard and I've got a new, functional motherboard.

Anyhow, there goes my shiny new Linux box. I'm back to my PowerBook with Mac OS X. (Which I love, but I really wanted to use my sexy new system.) Oh, well.