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Still Sick

I just can't shake this cold. It was a pretty easy week for my kids cause I could not talk for more than about 10 min every class. Set up a game or an excercise and watch them work. I plan on taking it easy all weekend. Hopefully it will get better by next week.

Don't this at home

Not everyone wants to convert.

US Election

In honor of the US election let me present this little gem.

Warning: Its about 4 megs so be careful if you have poor bandwidth (Mom)

Jesswein's in the news

Apparently Lisa can't get a date, Tim is losing his job to a pothead and I have a cold. Can't a Jesswein catch a break?

Those freaky Japanese

Today's freaky Japanese segment is brought to you by eggs and their purple cousins.

New computer.

Well my old computer was acting up again this weekend. I was so frustrated with it that my wonderful wife felt sorry for me and took me computer shopping. Of course I am a bit geek so I could not just buy a computer off the shelf with the things I want in it. My last computer was custom built and shipped to me. This time I decided to go whole hog and build it my self.

So off to the store we go to get parts. For the geeks among you (Jason)the parts are as follows:

AMD 64 3000
ASUS K8V SE Deluxe
ASUS V9999GT GeForce 6800GT
Seagate 120G SATA HD
Kingston 3200 512x2
ASUS DVD Drive
Coolermaster Centurion Case w/ 350W PSU
and the totally archaic but still necessary Sony Floppy

So Saturday afternoon I start to wire it all together. There are a million wires to connect all over the place, especially the dozen or so tiny wires that go from the case to the Mother board. Not to hard though as long as you only think about the wire you are working on now and ignore all the rest till it's thier turn. Took about 3 hours to assemble but now that I know what I am doing I could probably do it in about 30 min.

Got it all together and I am ready to install windows. Boot and....Can't get to the DVD. hmmm, ok maybe the wires are wrong. Check it all. Nope thats ok. Ahhh, must be the BIOS, yup change drive boot order and all is well.

Try to boot again. Now the XP install cannot see my Hard Drive. No problem I was expecting that cause the new SATA drive confuse XP until you install a special driver. Go on the ASUS CD and find the SATA driver. Try again. Nothing. argggg.

So are the connections ok? yup. Drive ok? Go to the Seagate site and download thier boot disk diagnostics. Run them. Drive is aOK. hmmm OK, maybe its something in the BIOS. Eeek. I am not real keen on messing with the BIOS, bad things happen when you do that. I've heard the horror stories. Decide to head to the net again. End up leaving messages on 3 tech forums.

I kept getting advice. Try "this" they say. So I do. Now trying "this" is not as easy as it sounds cause I only have one keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Everytime I try something I have to power down the old machine, swap all the wires, try it on the new, fail, swap all the wires again, reboot old machine report failure to the boys on the web.

This goes on for a few hours on Saturday night and all day Sunday. I try dozens of different solutions. Then Sunday night I finally find the answer. Simple but strange. I was using the wrong driver. To set up the SATA drive I needed to use the RAID driver, not the SATA driver. Even though I was only using one drive so I could not have a RAID. oh well, once I switched drivers I was off to the races.

The new box is amazing. I had gotten used to waiting for a few seconds for anything to happen on my machine. It was almost as slow as moms. Now stuff just happens. It almost does stuff before I even ask. Tasks that too 40 minutes (like a full virus scan) now take 5.

WOOT.

It will take a few more weeks to get all the bugs out but that's fun for the nerd in me.

Gotta run,

cya