Whoa hold the phone ! I must be nuts , In the middle of working on 4 (or 5 or 6?) websites I get a new computer and gotta put a clean OS on it. So I'm gonna shoot for Windows Server 08.
So on to the first step. Some bonehead set the admin password on the bios and forgot it - so open the case and remove the battery from the MB for a few seconds. Oh look - the master drive is in the slave position , so move it to sata0. Eh, may as well put the wireless card in while I'm at it.
Bummer - gotta remove the power supply to install a card. WOW this is a tight little box (LOL). I gotta take the video card out to get to the battery - . OK, one password erased - puttin it back together.
Whew, there's never enough plugs in a house. I had to go round up a six way. Now for the test, turn it on and hope it don't blow up.
First I gotta go review the Server versions and seee which on best fits. (I'm thinking the one that does that virtual thingy. Yup, Im going with server08 R2 - and after fighting stupid usb keyboard on boot - were installing. YAY !!!
Aight this sucks, stalls during setup - maybe its a crappy burn. Immma try a new disc and see how that works.
Hell yeah , nothin like a new burn to solve a problem. Almost there ------ Nopr not yetr. I'll try foundation, I think it's a MB problem. Nope - I took out the wireless network card - now its gonna run.
OH YEAH - but I only got licenses up to enterprise - so no data center edition - but the enterprise will be good. OK , had to force IRQ on wireless card - now i gotta download drivers . Nope still crashes , esp when installing drivers - no prob - a network cable is better anyway.
OK I played with that for a few - fun stuff but I gotta get busy - win7 ultimate it is.
Grr - my ultimate install was trashed - had to burn a new one of those too.
NONE OF THE ABOVE.
After a night and a day of fighting - it came down to ram test - the machine runs great after testing with only 1 mem stick at a time - viola - i need new ram. Yup, the wireless card is bad too - no prob - I got it running with a crossover cable through the laptop sahring wireless connection LOLZ.
Now to get all the dev software installed and running again.
WOW - transfer 40GB over 100mb connection still takes 50mins
