AAAARGH! (or "Adventures in Upgrading")

Lesson re-learned the hard way:

Never run a BIOS upgrade through Windows with 5 other apps running.

I can't believe I forgot and did that to myself...
Killed my old mainboard, it won't even POST.

On the up-side, I have a new Pentium D Dual core PC now!

So there I was installing Windows and I kept getting copy errors and random blue-screens.

Turned out my brand new 1 GB stick of DDR2 533 was faulty.
The computer shop were too swamped with other jobs to look at my PC, so I bought another one and swapped it over to prove to the computer shop that it was the RAM.

So they accepted it was the RAM.
Even better, they swapped both sticks for me for DDR2 667 even though it's more than the board needs as it cost them the same amount.

In other hardware news, I also have a Logitech MX5000 Cordless Bluetooth Desktop.
All I can say is, very snazzy! I might post some pics later...