I’ve shipped the flaky Gigabyte motherboard back to Amazon for a refund. I saw enough items in the review threads that suggested people have seen similar problems with this board that I wasn’t inclined to try a replacement. The ASUS board should do as well for my needs and seemed to have good reviews.

I’ll likely try to work in basic system integration tonight around base molding work on the floors. I’d like to see this come up and work reliably as soon as possible even though it will likely be a couple of weeks before I have the free time to do much beyond the basics.

This machine is ultimately going to live in the finished part of the basement where we have a large expanse of free space to work with an the room-scale VR can show its stuff without excess opportunities to trip over furniture.

I still need to get the GFI outlets installed down there to support the TV and computer before things can really be set up properly. I’m hoping to also have a second (probably core-2 level) computer down there to enable head-to-head gaming if the people aspect can be made to work. Network drops are already in place and should be working at this point.

Things are going to be a bit difficult until the office floor is done and the bookcases and furniture is back together. I’m planning on refinishing the top of my old desk before I’m done so this is likely to be further in the future than I’d really prefer.