Rrrrgh.
Due to my mainboard going on the fritz - well, it wasn't /bad/, but I was having issues - and Merroune's board (and a few other things ...) going TU as well - Andi traipsed out to the 'local' comp-supply shop to do them out of new hardware.
Merroune's hardware booted up fine. (And Banshee promptly lost her net card... still not behaving, even with Merroune's old card in it...) The new board for my system, however... DoA.
So Back He Goes - with the new board. He comes back with a different board and in it goes (issues with the damn stand-offs and not being keen on boards crowded with bells and whistles aside, that part went pretty smoothly..). The hardware having been plugged together, I back off to let him get the software installed. I have no patience for this part, and so muchly prefer it if someone ELSE gets to do the frustrating bits.
It's running. I'm being forced to reload a good bit of my software, thanks to a rearrangment of the drives, but at least I got the important shit backed up. (That would be my whole graphics folder, my fic-folder, and my modest (*snerk*) media library.) I have finally made use of the DVD writer. o.O
I think I like - I got ALL of that on ONE disc.
I'm mildly shocked, I think.
That's a fair amount of data - especially my graphics folder. (Anyone who's seen the Gallery in the Lair shouldn't be terribly surprised by that..)
.. I'm still re-loading stuff, though. Might as well update Corel, I guess..
*grump*
Merroune's hardware booted up fine. (And Banshee promptly lost her net card... still not behaving, even with Merroune's old card in it...) The new board for my system, however... DoA.
So Back He Goes - with the new board. He comes back with a different board and in it goes (issues with the damn stand-offs and not being keen on boards crowded with bells and whistles aside, that part went pretty smoothly..). The hardware having been plugged together, I back off to let him get the software installed. I have no patience for this part, and so muchly prefer it if someone ELSE gets to do the frustrating bits.
It's running. I'm being forced to reload a good bit of my software, thanks to a rearrangment of the drives, but at least I got the important shit backed up. (That would be my whole graphics folder, my fic-folder, and my modest (*snerk*) media library.) I have finally made use of the DVD writer. o.O
I think I like - I got ALL of that on ONE disc.
I'm mildly shocked, I think.
That's a fair amount of data - especially my graphics folder. (Anyone who's seen the Gallery in the Lair shouldn't be terribly surprised by that..)
.. I'm still re-loading stuff, though. Might as well update Corel, I guess..
*grump*
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