so, i'm really, really sick of not being able to get anything done until i get through the filing and i'm tired of this boring hacking fight with an entity i don't understand, and have no interest whatsoever in competing with.
so, i've ripped the thing down to the barest combination possible - hard drives, video card & dvd. everything is disabled in the bios, including multiprocessing and usb. i've got a ps/2 mouse running, which i'm actually happy about because i thought it was broken.
and, i'm not installing anything at all to start, not even the chipset drivers.
i want to finish the filing, to start. and, i'll have to slowly bring in drivers and hardware until i'm comfortable.
i have actually done this before, and the only conclusion i came to was that everything was working correctly. but, at this point, if the thing crashes again, there's only two options left - either the processor is malfunctioning or i'm getting hacked via microwave for reasons that i don't understand.
