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January 10, 2005
Fast, Slow, and Fuzzy
Seems both Nise and I are working on getting sick. Felt sorta crappy this morning, took some cold meds and went to work anyway. By the end of the day I was pretty wiped.
I had ordered parts to upgrade my machine, and the last of them (the case) came in today, so I had Nise pick me up from work. That, it turned out, was a mistake. There was a fatal traffic accident that completely snarled traffic in the Seattle grid - it took us nearly 45 minutes to get the 1.5 miles from my office back to the apartment. Blech.
Had dinner, and despite knowing better, I set to work upgrading my machine. Took me about 90 minutes to get the new CPU, Motherboard and RAM into the new case and migrate my drives over. Linux was happy as a clam going from two 1Ghz Pentium 3's to a single AMD Athlon 64 3400+. It figured out that a bunch of hardware had been removed and a bunch of different hardware had taken it's place, and within a minute (no reboots required, thank you very much) it was up and running.
My Windows XP install, well, it's not nearly as happy. I've had good luck in the past just moving the install - it'll take 6 or 7 reboots, but Windows will eventually figure things out. Not this time. When I try to boot Windows, the screen goes black for a moment, and the machine reboots. I suspect it's going to take some fairly serious massaging before it's willing to come out and play.
Anyway, enough sillyness for the evening - time to hit the sack.
Posted by dberger at January 10, 2005 10:28 PM