The BIOS chip I've been waiting for arrived today, and we got it installed and the motherboard working, but Vista now thinks it's counterfit, because our product key was activated and running before we switched out the motherboard, to make a very long story short, so it thinks it's a new computer altogether.

To fix this, we're going to buy a new hard drive, call Microsoft to give us a new product key to run, and install Vista on the new Hard Drive, with the current one as a slave from which I can copy important data that I can't back up right now.

I sure hope the Orange Box will work :?

We have to reinstall Windows Vista because it was totally set for the last motherboard. All it's drivers and everything were set just for that one, and a new one messes it up. I did have Windows running temporarily, and it was totally buggy. Nothing ran, there were error messages everywhere, and I'd get the Blue Screen of Death whenever I tried to do anything even the tiniest bit complex. So, reinstalling it is.

At least I have 11- er, 10 days to set it all up and getting running the way I like it. :(

I'm hoping for a new SATA (still using IDE 250GB) 500GB+ hard drive. This new motherboard only has one IDE port, but ~5 SATAs.

So, a clean install it is!

I'm watching Pirates of the Caribbean right now to cheer myself up :D