My workstation is finally back to "normal." I ended up having to get a new motherboard and cpu. This was frustrating because I had to change from AMD to Intel. All of the PC part stores have closed in my area. PC Computer and CompUSA were the biggest ones out here. Makes me wish we had a Fry's over here.

I didn't want to wait a week and a half to have something else mailed to me, so I went to a local reputable computer builder. I went to PC Laptops. They hooked me up with an Asus  P5QL-EM mobo, and an Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 (2.53 GHz) cpu.

Total damage to my wallet was $383.56.

The most aggravating thing was that in the end, it was a flaky DIMM that caused all of the trouble. So now, I have a perfectly good AMD cpu and MSI mobo sitting on my office.

I now have an Acronis True Image with all of my stuff installed. So when this happens again, and you can bet that it will happen again, will get me going in about an hour.