[GH85Carrera]

Weeeee, fun with computers!

The computer that I used to have here as my home computer for email and general nerd stuff, is just an i7 CPU, and maxed out with 32 gif of RAM. I replaced it with my current monster system.

The old computer was pouting and sobbing as it was not getting used. So I stuck 5 - 9TB hard drives in it, and made it a RAID computer for my business partners office. It got to be up and running 24/7 and happy and well.

Then something weird happened. It decided it did not want to boot anymore. I can only get to the Intel RAID setup screen and it says the hard drives are all happy and ready, but it will not load the BIOS at all. Like a mad wife, it ain't talking and nothing will get it to communicate. Crap.

So some online chatting with Asus and thay said I am SOL unless I just send in the motherboard for them to repair. Not a viable option.

So more online looking, and I ended up on Ebay and bought a new BIOS chip for $14.20 delivered to my door. The real pain will be getting to the BIOS chip. That motherboard is a fan loving covered board and the vast majority of the board is covered in a plastic cover. So likely I will have to pull the memory, CPU and all the connections to remove the cover, then swap in the new BIOS chip, and hope that is the real issue.

Golly computers are fun. Only a 38 TB RAID with a ton of company data on it. Oh well.