(Yeah, this one's a direct paste from LJ. So sue me. =p)

Well, technically I'm not offline anymore, but the current state can't be considered permanent.

I'm currently running on a loaner mobo from Kevyn, as we've pretty much determined the mobo I got was DOA. I've already started the RMA process, and Newegg should be sending me another of the same mobo soon. (I would have preferred to get another mobo instead, but I didn't have a choice...)

I'm holding off on the OS reinstall until I get the mobo finalized. So, I'm -running- on this one without a reinstall, and basically everything except the video card drivers work. So, WinXP fell back to the VGA video drivers, leaving me at 640x480x16 color for the time being.

Hopefully the replacement motherboard will work better, and this can all be fixed up soon. The saving grace was that I looked over my setup and it seems I didn't really install all that many applications in the first place, so getting myself back up and running from a reinstall shouldn't take -too- long. Of course, I have to get the hardware end working first...

Other than that, nothing of note happened really. Though, we are going up to NJ/NY this weekend, and apparently we're going via Route 1 since the Mercedes' engine isn't broken in yet...