7X is now fully operational. Windows 2000 installed without a hitch and I’ve got most of the software back in place. Looks like everything is fine and dandy. The new-found speed of this machine made short work of reinstalling all the software.
This is coming to you via the laptop, but 7X is running! Right now it is in the process of reinstalling Windows 2000. There were two issues with booting up:
I’m going to have to look into the partition of my drives because I had the c: drive/partition pretty full. That resulted in there not being enough room to clean up the files there and prompting a fresh installation over the top. The only thing I should lose is the account settings, but those are easy to recreate. Looks like I did something right when I partitioned the drive last year and put all data on one drive and reserved the c: drive for Windows and programs only.
I just spell checked the last entry. The dictionary doesn’t recognize “blogging” or “blog.” Now that’s funny.
Well, I’m blogging from work….
The case modification on Weds. went well, though it took longer than expected (I was trying to be careful and clean). Cutting out the back panel for the motherboard was the tricky part. (I’m taking pictures of everything, so stay tuned.)
The new board mounted up just fine. All the hardware went back in just fine. Boot up and enter BIOS went fine - all hardware correctly identified. Boot up to Windows, not so fine. It began the boot process then ran into a problem with the drive. I’ve got to check some hardware settings before I panic too much. However, my suspicion is that the Windows 2000 install is mucked. I think I mentioned before that it was getting a bit hinky on me and I was planning on refreshing it. Well, looks like I might be doing that from DOS.
Stay tuned for our next exiting chapter, hopefully coming to you from 7X. (That seems to have become the name of the new box.)
The new computer bits arrived yesterday. Tonight I install. This will be my first “ground up” computer build and I’m rather looking forward to it. (Sarah has conferences, so it’s just me and parts.)
For the record, I’ve got a new Abit IS7 motherboard and Intel P4 2.8 GHz CPU (7 times faster than what it’s replacing; a cool 100 times faster than my last computer and somewhere on the order of 800 times faster than my first computer [a Vic 20]). This is paired with two new 256 MB DDR PC3200 RAM sticks, our current Plextor CD-RW and Pioneer DVD drives, and a new 350 watt power supply. I will also be maintaining the current video card and hard drives. Not the newest and fastest, but they still work. (And the point of buying just a motherboard was that the rest of the components still work.)
I’ll post more later. Heck, I’ll even take pictures of the progress (not that anyone cares).