Security through Insecurity

About 2 months ago, I decided to try out a RC version of Windows 7, but it would not support my SATA drive for an odd reason.  So, i rebooted into the BIOS, then proceeded to change my SATA mode to Compatible, which did not help. So, in my last attempt, i activated TPM in the BIOS, and the strangest thing happened; As soon as I switched form Disabled to Enabled, the computer shutdown, without my even saving the changes. I tried restarting…. but to no avail, ever. My BIOS is somehow fried now in my laptop, and whenever I try to boot, it doesn’t even show the POST.

So, in desperation, I called up ASUS, and they said it was something they had never seen before, and surely wasn’t something that was supposed to happen. Luckily, they have excellent customer support, didn’t charge me for the phone call, and are going to have the laptop shipped to them, replace the bad parts, and ship it back to me, all without me paying a cent. I must give them props for that, I have never, ever had such good support, They put be through no loops of forwarding to another department or anything, they just took care of me. Now I just actaully have to ship the thing with the RMA printout they gave..

This is why, as you may imagine, that I have had no updates in a good time. Luckily the hard drive is still good, and I got everything off of it, but I still do not have my recording software, or any of my tools. I’d like to apologize for not posting this sooner, but when Real Life gets down to it, so do I. Rest assured, there will be plenty more updates and youtube videos very soon.

Thanks,

Josh Houston~