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hiatus
I have been offline for a week or so, due to the untimely complication in the rebuilding of my computer.
I bought my serenity a spanking new black box to reside within.
Everything was going swimmingly, until cpu(old) failed to fit into the new arrangement.
Along with black box, i had also invested in new black keyboard. with keys that work, and everything. plus some new black speakers - with nice subwoofer for under-the-desk and so on. So far, so good.
cpu(old) failed the transfer process by failing to fit into new motherboard. OK.
So, a few days later I order cpu(new). New motherboard being not-quite new enough to accept the spanking new dual core cpuxen, I paid the same for a single brain variety.
Oh, and a floppy drive. black of course. So that I could update the BIOS on my new (now increasingly less new) motherboard so that it could accept cpu(new). housemate™ [![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quuux] downloaded the relevant BIOS image, and installed a floppy drive on his machine to get me sorted there.
The whole process went well, until Microsoft's DRM "Genuine Advantage" killed my system. The old hardware hash didn't match and instead of checking with me, I got the BSoD. A whole screen full of BSoD. And refused to budge. Setup disc was no help. Attempts to reinstall were thwarted. I left one running overnight to get up and see that 12 hours had advanced install by 1%.
So, we download a KNOPPIX CD image, and boot with that. Which can read, but cannot write to NTFS partitions - so I can't delete the dud WinXP
and install over it. By now, frustration was high.
I went for the format-and-install-again option.
Now begins the fun with Microsoft's DRM "Genuine Advantage" programme.
I bought my serenity a spanking new black box to reside within.
Everything was going swimmingly, until cpu(old) failed to fit into the new arrangement.
Along with black box, i had also invested in new black keyboard. with keys that work, and everything. plus some new black speakers - with nice subwoofer for under-the-desk and so on. So far, so good.
cpu(old) failed the transfer process by failing to fit into new motherboard. OK.
So, a few days later I order cpu(new). New motherboard being not-quite new enough to accept the spanking new dual core cpuxen, I paid the same for a single brain variety.
Oh, and a floppy drive. black of course. So that I could update the BIOS on my new (now increasingly less new) motherboard so that it could accept cpu(new). housemate™ [
quuux] downloaded the relevant BIOS image, and installed a floppy drive on his machine to get me sorted there.The whole process went well, until Microsoft's DRM "Genuine Advantage" killed my system. The old hardware hash didn't match and instead of checking with me, I got the BSoD. A whole screen full of BSoD. And refused to budge. Setup disc was no help. Attempts to reinstall were thwarted. I left one running overnight to get up and see that 12 hours had advanced install by 1%.
So, we download a KNOPPIX CD image, and boot with that. Which can read, but cannot write to NTFS partitions - so I can't delete the dud WinXP
and install over it. By now, frustration was high.
I went for the format-and-install-again option.
Now begins the fun with Microsoft's DRM "Genuine Advantage" programme.