PC Personalities

  I've been saying lately, from experience over the last 10 years that said all PC motherboards have their unique quirks when running Windows & software. Furthermore, it is my contention that the MBs in name brand MBs like Dell are more reliable than aftermarket ones one can build oneself. 

But I  deviate from subject here out of total frustration because composing here on this infernal "blog" that is supposed to be optimized FOR EXACTLY WHAT I AM DOING  is a FRIGGING NIGHTMARE & GOOGLE SUCKS! They come out with products and add all kinds of bells and whistles we don't need and NEVER FINISH THE  program with the key features we needed and never got, nor do they EVER fix the glitches that I constantly run into such as my mail that I am writing in G-Mail SENDING WHEN I HIT THE TAB KEY TO INDENT A PARAGRAPH.

     That is my experience after ditching my Dell for aftermarket ones years ago and having nothing but trouble afterword. Meanwhile, I gave the Dell to a PC enthusiast/friend who repairs them. he cracked the proprietary problems with the Dell, for instance, it wouldn't allow anything but it's  Dell Windows operating system disk to be installed on it first. he got it to accept regular Windows disks.  The result: over the next 6 years, he said, the Dell was his best computer. Furthermore, his overall experience always using used the name brand PCs has been rather good, to my ensuing 6 years of total frustration  using two aftermarket  MBs, a Supermicro one and an Intel one.Plus Supermicro has a total ripoff scheme when I asked for a replacement. But on the rare occasion when HP or Dell manufactures a total turkey, they will replace it without hassle. 

     So now I am back to my original Dell in a custom tower for which I manufactured a 5.25-inch  "Dell Tray" with the Dell proprietary front I/O board mounted in it and a csutom made hybrid power swithc using the Dell power board with a Pentium 3 era HP power button hot glued in front of it.

This 8300 Dimension MB has it's unique quirks when running, but it runs my audio editing software properly and doesn't blue screen at random like my otehr two MBs did for 6 years.

     A specific one with only this MB, when I upload, say a photo and I have to scroll through the contents of a folder to the item I want to upload using the arrows in the window  the mouse wheel, it bolts to the other end of the list every time. It always did that with the 8300 and never did that with my other two motherboards.

     My theory is that since no human endeavor is close  to perfect, but in the PC digital world, the way PS work, it is supposedly designed largely to run on everything happening in order, perfectly, no exceptions. Knowing this is impossible, especially on the web, the PC has been intricate checks and balances to try to keep something imperfect at least emulating perfection enough to function in its "perfect" world.

     However, with each individual piece of hardware, among the billions of lines of code programmed into it, when it interacts with the uniquely imperfect hardware has characteristic flaws either small enough to be labelled "quirks" or large enough to be "junk" and all are different.   With that  understanding, then the hypothesis can be put forward that with PCs its impossible for each not to have it's own "eccentricities" to put it mildly.

     To conclude, it is my contention that MBs used by the well known, companies who maintain a good reputation with customers like HP and Dell, those flaws are kept to a minimum, or are replaced for us becaused these big names have a huge stake in their reputations among consumers, whereas not so much when some PC enthusiast walks shops for the best deal for a motherboard to build his own system.

     Finally, my conclusion is that since NOBODY(that I know of, anyway) is saying anything about this but me I must be right about it. That's because when I think of something like this that is based on my experience and observations even though I am not qualified to judge the situation in most if not all cases, I still  turn out to be right because, invariably, later I find that somebody else has researched, documented and elaborated on exactly what I'd been saying all along. Nobody says anything about this yet & its staying a dirty little corporate secret that they don't want known until somebody publishable writes or talks about it on air, so I must be correct.

      I mean this must be so because the alternative for the PC manufacturers is advertising their products as "Our computers have fewer flaws, suck less than our nearest competitor." People don't want to hear that, so they never say it.