Its 2008....thats double 1004! Oh and computers too.
Another year has passed and a new year has hit us square in the face. This is the time that college football hits its finale with the bowl games. People make new years resolutions that last anywhere from a couple weeks to a couple months on average. People puts out those top whatever lists. You hears the top 100 songs for the year countdown on the radio.
Obviously of all those that I mentioned, my favorite is college football. But let me ramble some more here before I get to that.
-Computer Section-
I carried both of my desktop computers with me when I went to see mom so I could reinstall Windows on it. So, I formatted and reinstalled Windows and my applications on Christmas Eve. One of the applications that came with the motherboard was Gigabyte's @BIOS which allows you to flash your BIOS within Windows since floppy drives are getting more and more scarce. I was having problems with keyboards on this particular motherboard so I thought, maybe one of the newer BIOS releases might fix it. So I download the update and use the @BIOS utility to start the flash. At about 87% it had a write error. Now, this motherboard has a dual BIOS since the BIOS chips are not socketed like many other motherboards and so you can recover from problems like this. Well, just in case I try to flash different BIOS versions but each one would error out at 87%. I prepare a floppy as a system disk and added the BIOS file and flash utility.
When I restarted finally it started to hang up at the nVidia RAID detection screen which comes up just after the POST. After hitting up several forums I pull the CMOS battery to reset the CMOS. I could then get into the BIOS without having to hit the nVidia RAID detection. After looking around I found the Dual BIOS/Q-Flash utility in the BIOS but it would freeze at the confirmation prompt before entering it. So after contacting Gigabyte, I applied for an RMA number, got the reply and packaged it to ship off today.
So what did I learn from this? Keep a floppy drive around because you still need it. But I also have to say that the new AMD Socket AM2 dual core processor with DDR2 ram and a raptor hard drive makes for a mighty sweet machine.
-Alabama Football Section-
The first 20 minutes of the Independence Bowl was great, Alabama jumped out to a 27-0 lead but then quarterback J.P. Wilson made a mistake and threw an interception. From that point on the team was fighting an up hill battle even though they were winning handily. For the remainder of the game Alabama can only muster a field goal but hold on to win 30-24. So Alabama avoids back to back losing seasons for the first time since the early 50's pre-Bear Bryant era. Recruiting will be helped by this too I'm sure.
Rich Rodriguez jumped ship from WVU to take over at Michigan next season. He had all but signed with Alabama last year before the governor of West Virginia and WVU helped to up his salary. Now Rich Rod is trying to weasel out of his buyout clause which will cost him $4 million. He might have been able to negotiate his way through it but now that he left and is trying to squirm out of it from Michigan I'm sure they are not going to let him off too easy. He signed the contract and I don't feel any bad thoughts about WVU trying to get their money.
-Fiesta Bowl Section-
As I'm writing this I'm also watching the Fiesta Bowl between West Virginia and Oklahoma. Now, if any of you that read this watched it too I have some criticisms to make. If OU looses the game its because of the coaches bad calls. They have a change to cut the lead down to 4 points early in the 3rd quarter but he opts to go for two and fails (score is 20-15 at this point). Then on the very next play he calls an on-sides kick which they do not recover. Two big plays that takes your team, who desperately needs the momentum, and completely deflates them and gives the momentum back to WVU.
Later, OU scores again and goes for two again. Guess what....they do not make it again. Coach Stoops, you are harming your team more than helping.
Finally OU scores and kicks the extra point to make the score 41-28 with 10:14 left in the 4th quarter. Lets see if they can win the game.
Well, I scrolled up to write something else and WVU scored again to make it 48-28 with 7:02 left in the 4th quarter. I think its over with now. Yep its over, 48-28. Congratulations to WVU who came in a big underdog after losing their coach. But I still make the case that Stoops kept his team out of the game and didn't give them a chance to win.
Obviously of all those that I mentioned, my favorite is college football. But let me ramble some more here before I get to that.
-Computer Section-
I carried both of my desktop computers with me when I went to see mom so I could reinstall Windows on it. So, I formatted and reinstalled Windows and my applications on Christmas Eve. One of the applications that came with the motherboard was Gigabyte's @BIOS which allows you to flash your BIOS within Windows since floppy drives are getting more and more scarce. I was having problems with keyboards on this particular motherboard so I thought, maybe one of the newer BIOS releases might fix it. So I download the update and use the @BIOS utility to start the flash. At about 87% it had a write error. Now, this motherboard has a dual BIOS since the BIOS chips are not socketed like many other motherboards and so you can recover from problems like this. Well, just in case I try to flash different BIOS versions but each one would error out at 87%. I prepare a floppy as a system disk and added the BIOS file and flash utility.
When I restarted finally it started to hang up at the nVidia RAID detection screen which comes up just after the POST. After hitting up several forums I pull the CMOS battery to reset the CMOS. I could then get into the BIOS without having to hit the nVidia RAID detection. After looking around I found the Dual BIOS/Q-Flash utility in the BIOS but it would freeze at the confirmation prompt before entering it. So after contacting Gigabyte, I applied for an RMA number, got the reply and packaged it to ship off today.
So what did I learn from this? Keep a floppy drive around because you still need it. But I also have to say that the new AMD Socket AM2 dual core processor with DDR2 ram and a raptor hard drive makes for a mighty sweet machine.
-Alabama Football Section-
The first 20 minutes of the Independence Bowl was great, Alabama jumped out to a 27-0 lead but then quarterback J.P. Wilson made a mistake and threw an interception. From that point on the team was fighting an up hill battle even though they were winning handily. For the remainder of the game Alabama can only muster a field goal but hold on to win 30-24. So Alabama avoids back to back losing seasons for the first time since the early 50's pre-Bear Bryant era. Recruiting will be helped by this too I'm sure.
Rich Rodriguez jumped ship from WVU to take over at Michigan next season. He had all but signed with Alabama last year before the governor of West Virginia and WVU helped to up his salary. Now Rich Rod is trying to weasel out of his buyout clause which will cost him $4 million. He might have been able to negotiate his way through it but now that he left and is trying to squirm out of it from Michigan I'm sure they are not going to let him off too easy. He signed the contract and I don't feel any bad thoughts about WVU trying to get their money.
-Fiesta Bowl Section-
As I'm writing this I'm also watching the Fiesta Bowl between West Virginia and Oklahoma. Now, if any of you that read this watched it too I have some criticisms to make. If OU looses the game its because of the coaches bad calls. They have a change to cut the lead down to 4 points early in the 3rd quarter but he opts to go for two and fails (score is 20-15 at this point). Then on the very next play he calls an on-sides kick which they do not recover. Two big plays that takes your team, who desperately needs the momentum, and completely deflates them and gives the momentum back to WVU.
Later, OU scores again and goes for two again. Guess what....they do not make it again. Coach Stoops, you are harming your team more than helping.
Finally OU scores and kicks the extra point to make the score 41-28 with 10:14 left in the 4th quarter. Lets see if they can win the game.
Well, I scrolled up to write something else and WVU scored again to make it 48-28 with 7:02 left in the 4th quarter. I think its over with now. Yep its over, 48-28. Congratulations to WVU who came in a big underdog after losing their coach. But I still make the case that Stoops kept his team out of the game and didn't give them a chance to win.
posted by Brian Wright at 10:28 PM
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