Everyday Randomness

I finally received the new motherboard from EVGA on Friday, and of course it didn’t pop right in and work like I hoped it would.  Windows didn’t want to install, and I kept getting error messages, but each message was different, so it didn’t take long to figure out that when it was telling me the Windows CD was bad, that really wasn’t the case.  I tried to flash the BIOS 3 times with 4 different floppy disks with no luck.  I made a total of 4 calls to EVGA tech support, and they kept telling me the same thing they always say.  The swore it was the ram throwing an error.  I swore it wasn’t because all 4 gigs were showing and I wasn’t getting the C1 code from the motherboard.  In fact, I wasn’t getting any error codes from the mobo.  I finally gave up on the floppies and resorted to flashing the BIOS by cd.  It worked!  Why didn’t I try that 13 hours sooner?  I could have saved myself a lot of hassle!