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Project General Melchett: Stage 2.

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Attempt at cleaning up internal wiring

As the 8800GT is on back­order, time to bor­row Liam’s old ATI Radeon 1950Pro and start the install­a­tion pro­cess. Also a good time to clean up the cables a little inside.

Good news. Gen­eral Melchett boots. BIOS finds all the hard­ware bit first time around. The CPU is not fried.

Vista Ultimate x64 Install

Vista takes an impress­ively short amount of time to install from DVD.

Feeling the Hard drive

There is a tech­nique known as “feel­ing the hard drive’s vibra­tions” that few geeks know. Sort of like being a geek whisperer. You can feel the bits being installed onto the drive.

General Melchett Live

And we’re live!

It’s strange that the memory per­form­ance is a 5.6. I tried a few quick tweaky things and broke the star­tup. Back to Giga­byte defaults and all worked OK again.

Soft­ware install­a­tion and con­fig­ur­a­tion time!

Written by Nick Hodge

November 28th, 2007 at 12:34 pm