Some girls like diamonds...

A lot of girls like things like jewlery or flowers as a present from a man. I guess I'm not your typical girl, though. How many wives would get excited over receiving a mac'd out new PC for Christmas? Chris totally surprised me with a sweet new Media Center PC - AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core, 4 Gigs of RAM, a super nice Gigabyte motherboard, 2 TV Tuner Cards with HD and Analog, Windows Vista Ultimate, a super nice Media Center case, etc etc. Of course, neither one of us could wait to get the kids to bed to put it all together. We worked on it for a couple nights getting it built and software installed. We had a few bumps along the way, but we could deal. But, here we are almost 2 weeks later... and we're super frustrated. I can't find any central cause of all of our problems other than Vista. The PC locks up all the time, it has a hard time communicating with our WD MyBook, it won't recognize all 4 gigs of RAM (a known Vista issue), we can't get both tuner cards working.. argh! I think we're both ready to throw this thing out the window. Maybe it would be a lot easier for me to just be a typical girl.