{"id":1243,"date":"2003-05-21T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2021-05-22T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T19:35:24","slug":"blog-within-a-blog-my-new-computer-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/05\/21\/blog-within-a-blog-my-new-computer-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Within a Blog: My New Computer 1.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/gadgets2bug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; I am still trying to decide between three different motherboards. The lead seems to have narrowed somewhat, with the latest news that the new BIOS for MSI&#8217;s 875P Neo-FIS2R can actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=9572\" target=_blank\" title=\"Link to story on the UK Inquirer\">kill the motherboard<\/a>! That latest BIOS has been removed from MSI&#8217;s site, but a replacement is not planned for days. As a guy named Icky said on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msi.com.tw\/program\/e_service\/forum\/main.php\" title=\"Link to MSI forum homepage\">MSI forum<\/a>: &#8220;Maybe we don&#8217;t hear from MSI here because MSI&#8217;s computers all have their MOBO&#8217;s installed and they can&#8217;t get any of thier puters to boot????????????&#8221;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; That still leaves tossing a coin over the Gigabyte or Asus boards.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; By the way, Asus seems to confirm what MSI said (and which I made note of in the previous &#8220;My New Computer&#8221; entry), that I&#8217;m limited to two 512MB DIMMs or four 256MB DIMMs.  You can see the chart at the bottom of <a href=\"http:\/\/usa.asus.com\/products\/mb\/socket478\/p4c800-d\/overview.htm\" title=\"Link to Asus's P4C800 Deluxe homepage\">this page<\/a>.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I am still trying to decide between three different motherboards. The lead seems to have narrowed somewhat, with the latest news that the new BIOS for MSI&#8217;s 875P Neo-FIS2R can actually<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-computer","category-me","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}