Monday, February 03, 2003

Phewwwww...

It has been a busy couple of days. I spent the whole weekend installing a new Hard Drive and upgrading the PC to run Windows XP - hence no postings. A shame, I've got a load of nice new photos from the Graveyard to share. Once I get the PC peachy I'll put some up.

Had to do a few things I've ever done before - one was particularly sphincter wobbling. Put the drive in, PC couldn't see it. Eeek! Thought I'd been sent a duff drive. Fiddled for ages then decided that maybe a BIOS update would help. Downloaded the BIOS from the board makers site and managed to get it to work without ruining the PC. No thanks to them - they had two sets of different instructions on how to do it, both wrong…

Installed XP (been avoiding it for ages and moaning about it) but I had the 'nice' version which did away with the bits I was particularly unhappy with… ;)

Amazingly, it all worked 'out of the box' - no drivers to install, fiddling, configuration etc - amazingly easy. Some of the drivers need updating, but other than that - well impressed. Nice features as well for browsing images and renaming multiple files. Makes me wonder why I moaned about it so long.

Posted by Dio Bach at 14:09

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