Project General Melchett: Stage 2.
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 takes an impressively short amount of time to install from DVD.
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.
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!