In Motherboards I posted about an ECS board THAT I NEARLY RUNIED. I ended up replacing it with an MSI board. Anyway, brought the pc back to the owner and set it up. Sound working, helped him get set up on Internet through AOL. I Know I know, but 1000 hours free..and what do I care when I have to fix his computer at his expense? Anyway, showed him how to work printer, log in (win2000) etc. Two days later I get a call from him saying he can't connect to AOL, he speaks ok english but better spanish so his son, age 11, gets on and tells me AOL has error messages. The son is smart so I walk through soe procedures and ask seeral question. Somehow AOL craps out. Wheterh do to user error or just AOL, I couldn't even guess. Anyway, Isay lets reinstall. The son tells me that the dad broke the CD. I asked how? he says he was taking it out and it broke! I say is the CD-Rom ok? Is that broke. Son misunderstands and repeats that the Cd-Rom is broken. I say ok, I'll be over tomorrow.

I go over and much to my releif AOL had come in one of those plastic DVD cases that open like a book. You need to grasp an edge of CD and push the middle with your thumb to get it out. Well dad just grabbed the edge and yanked, breaking the CD in half! Never got to the CD-Rom. So I got another AOL disk, of which he had about 20 or so in a desk drawer and re-installed AOL. Then fixed printer which they said wasn't working. Apparently some one had deleted it from the printer properties and installed the first printer in list twice, the AFGA or whatever printer name. This time, before i left, I printed instruction in both english and Spanish, with the help of the son of course... So far MSI board is kicking *** .