wheeee...
 

Looks like it was the ram... I grannrf 256MB tonight & it's fine. But I still don't know if the first one is defective or not--it's PC2700, and you're supposed to use PC2100 for this motherboard. I had gotten the 2700 to use with my ill-fated original purchase. But it's now running quite happily with 256 of the 2100 & I'm enjoying the speed boost.

Now to reinstall all the applications.. ho hum.. and I hope my wife can dig up her Finale CD, that's the only thing really important that I don't know where it is immediately.

Most RAM will scale back; some will not. Either way, I would get it replaced.

I would highly recommend buying ALL your RAM from www.crucial.com in the future. They warranty it for life and won't give you any problem getting it exchanged. They also guarantee it to work with your computer, so you'll be set.

Yeah, memory isn't a place to skimp; stuff that's rated the same might perform very very differently. You may find a place that's cheaper than Crucial, but they're not that much more, and it's definitely worth it.

Speaking of...Dave still owes me 256MB of RAM.

I owe you 256MB of RAM in the sense that I said I would <b>give</b> you 256MB of RAM, and I haven't <b>given</b> it to you yet.

Ask Kyle what happened with our cars and then you'll understand why I haven't.

So...as I was saying, you owe me 256MB of RAM. :)

And you couldn't just explain what happened earlier...why?

(I get the RAM when I get it...it's not like I really NEED 512MB of RAM...)

Alright Kyle...what happened with your cars?

Nah dude, with my cars.

The short of it is that I spent about $2,300 this month that I wasn't expecting to (in addition to the $2,000 I *was* expecting to spend) , and my last paycheck got fucked up, so I got it late, meaning that I was about broke.

Where I am now, I am in considerably better condition ('cause I got a paycheck), but I don't want to spend for a little bit because I need to build up a buffer again. Combine the house, the cars, and a couple eBay purchases and that buffer was -gone-.

And we only have one working car.

And that car needs more work done on it.

The Volvo pooped?

When it rains, it pours.

Something died with the Volvo; the battery is suspect, with the positive terminal being highly corroded. I have purchased a Haynes service manual and I'll be working on that shortly.

The Beetle needed new tires, has a coolant leak (which may or may not be fixing itself) and has, in all probability, a broken motor mount which will hopefully be fixed tomorrow.

It doesn't matter about the Volvo, because the DMV fucked up my registration and I need to get that redone. But I'm not going to be able to, because I just got a letter yesterday stating that State Farm is cancelling my insurance because I haven't been licensed for 36 consecutive months prior to issuance of the insurance - something they COULD HAVE FUCKING ASKED ME BEFORE THEY GRANTED ME INSURANCE.

I hope all the insurance companies have identical rules. That way, I won't be able to get a car registered for ANOTHER THREE YEARS!

Naw, that just means you go into the pool of drivers that pay more for ins.
In PA they call it "assigned risk pool" and any ins. co. doing business in the state has to take a share. Since the pool consists of people who have been dropped by their ins. co.( for any reason including late payment) or unproven risks (new drivers) you get to pay more.
They would never make you wait three years when they could be fleecing you. Just bad business.;)

Well, that's part of my strategy to keep them from cancelling it (it isn't cancelled <b>yet</b> - but it will be in about a week). I'm not going to write out how I expect the conversation to go, but I'm going to remind them that I was going to buy renter's insurance from them in the next month or two and that Jenni and I are looking to buy a condo soon, and I was going to purchase insurance on that from them as well. Not only that, but I'm not so stupid as to think that a 1990 240 is going to last me forever and I've been planning on buying another car as a primary transport and keeping the 240 as a project car/backup (I want to drop a Mustang engine in there - more on that in another thread). And I'll sell myself as a safe driver who, even though he hasn't been driving for 36 consecutive months, has watched a lot of other people make mistakes and has learned from them. And I'll say "Do you really think that the risk with me is so great that it's worth throwing away all this future business? Because I assure you, I am not going to be sending out checks to five different insurance companies each month. Whoever I start with, I'm going to stick with. Are you really that eager to not be that company?"

We'll see what happens. I'm operating on the assumption that I'm going to be uninsured in a week, which is fine because MY FUCKING CAR DOESN'T GO.

(It, uh, broke down on the way home after getting it registered. No joke. God has a sense of humor.)

That bites--We were in the assigned risk pool when we moved to PA in 1990. I had only had my license for about a year, and Mrs. Dallas' last legal residence was in NJ, and apparently having NJ car insurance is almost as bad as having no insurance as far as PA insurance companies are concerned.

(Even funnier, Jenni's car battery died that same night, as she was starting the car to come pick me up. Yeah, that ruled. The battery had been in there since the car was new, or about 5 years. GG special shaped $100 batteries.)

Dave, that 36 month thing may be a State Farm thing. If you can find another company to insure you BEFORE State farm drops you, you may be able to skirt the "assigned Risk" stigma and its associated cost.
Your arguments are rational and logical and won't work with State Farm. If you have an independent agent, it should make him scramble to find another company so he can keep you as a customer. If he's strictly a SF agent, his hands are tied.
If the letter came from SF make sure the agent is aware of it because often they're the last to know.
If they're unreasonable, get one of these. :eek: