[General Maximus]

tell me about it. I have been jinxed from the start. My old pc had a soundblaster x-fi fatality soundcard in it which is awesome but it is pci and my new pc doesnt have any pci slots, only pci-e so rather than caughing up another £100+ for a decent soundcard (the pc cost me enough) I thought I would see what the onbaord sound was like. The onbard sound is pants and even though it is supposed to be 7.1 and I have got 7.1 speakers, the side speakers and subwoofer didnt work so I ordered a new soundcard from Amazon and they sent me the wrong one so I had to send that back.

I am a very impatient dude and I just want everything setup and running so I can go back to my gaming and everything else I do. I have been holding off for the last week because I wanted my new soundcard for gaming and I have reluctant to install too much knowing that I was doing to have to do it all again when I built the new array. They are picking my pc up Monday, the manufacturer will get it Tuesday (and I have been assured they'll fix it Tuesday), they'll either send it back Tuesday or Wednesday and I'll get it Wednesday/Thursday and then I need to install all my progs again. I think I am going to give them a ring Tuesday afternoon and have a chat with them about the psu and hard drives and discuss swapping them over because I cant be doing with this everytime I want to put a new hdd in (or anything else). When I was talking to the guy on the phone this morning it was so unstable that it wasn't even getting to the bios screen before it was restarting.