After the grand unpacking of the system (see the review part 2 HERE), I was very excited to power on the rig and see how the box performed! I attached a keyboard and monitor, watched the POST screen flash (with me rubbing my hands in rapt anticipation), waiting for this beast to jump into Windows Vista! Then, suddenly a flash and a screen appeared….”No Operating System Found”! I was thinking, “You have got to be kidding me”.
It is an ASUS motherboard and I had lots of little issues with my old ASUS. I rebooted and jumped into the BIOS configuration, hmmmm RAID is turned off on the SATA controller. Since I ordered the box with RAID-0, either CyberpowerPC never configured anything, or the BIOS got messed up.
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Oh, joy is upon us, dear readers! I FINALLY received my PC from CyberpowerPC. Read Part 1 HERE
I received the PC on the revised date that Cyberpower had promised (10/15/08). I arrived home to find a single HUGE white box, which looked quite beat-up. In case anyone was unsure of the contents of the box, the big “PERSONAL COMPUTER” stamped on the side was sure to clear up any confusion!
Beat-up big white box
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I have been thinking a lot about the economy and what has been happening on the financial markets. For my few devoted readers, you may recall my post two weeks ago related to FAS 157 and why we are in a financial death spiral (READ IT HERE).
With that said, I want to go on the record early on my “superball effect” theory. The SE theory really is the inverse of the FAS 157 death spiral. Since my hypothesis on the economy is FAS 157 and “Mark to Market” is the principal cause of the current banking crisis, it stands to reason that once the financial market start to improve, the same dynamics that caused the downturn will fuel an upturn.
Downturn: Economy Slows -> Bank Assets Devalued -> Banks Write Down -> Financial Markets Slow -> Bank Assets Devalued -> Banks Write Down -> ad naseum
Upturn: Bailout -> Markets Recover Somewhat -> Bank Assets Raise in Value -> Banks Suddenly have more available funds to invest -> Market Improves -> Bank Assets Raise in Value -> Banks Suddenly have MORE available funds to invest.
Unless the incoming President really screws up the economy, I predict a complete recovery to pre-crash 2008 levels by October of 2010. Regardless of who wins, this will happen. When the encumbant President is taking credit for the dramatic turn around on the economy, remember, you heard the real reason here first!
