The numbers may vary and the ranking might chance slightly but overall that's a pretty constant search pattern on my site except for one unusual entry.

Amusing, isn't it?

That looked like a foot-long piece of solid, maybe wood or similar.

And it landed. On the hood.

And bounced back. On the windshield.

And finally bounced back somewhere else.

The whole thing lasted 2 seconds and now I need a new windshield and 5 days of body shop on the hood.

I guess it could have been worse. But, damn, that windshield was barely 4 month old!

Thinking about it later, my reaction had been to do absolutely nothing and in fact it was the right one -- there was traffic all around me, there was no escape pattern to avoid it.

That config has been running mostly smooth for quite a while. Once last year, I remember trying to boot the computer, the BIOS starts showing up and then nothing happens. It would look like this and just sit there:

That was once and it stopped the next day. And now it's doing this again.

Eventually if I let it sit there for 15 minutes or more, the BIOS might concede to start but the whole thing seems pretty flaky. It might not start or Windows might crash during the boot or something like the sound chip might not be working at all.

A quick search online seem to indicate that the ASUS M2N-E has frequent boot issues and the culprit might be the support of the memory. And I'm not even overclocking mine, so it's clearly a sign of a flaky series of motherboard. What is strange is that for me most of the time it had worked just fine (until now at least) and that eventually the board boots. Maybe because I run the conservative BIOS settings.

Reports from forums indicate that some BIOS updates might fix this so I'll see what the latest BIOS update does.