Greetings, glorious Essexboy! I’ve seen you in all those other threads. First off, I only have one permanent hard drive, and I couldn’t figure out the SATA/IDE thing in my BIOS. I’ve been fiddling around and installing some “essential” stuff now that my system’s relatively stable and I have a lock on the major problem. As someone in your godlike position, what do you recommend? Avast is the only antivirus I can really trust, but obviously I can’t use it if it wants to jerk me around.

Oh, I should mention that I finally found my new motherboard’s disc and installed the drivers and stuff on there. Any idea if that would have helped?