++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[fjmeat]

err whut?

From napoleon dynamite movie. Something about chicks sleeves being poofy.

 

[sdifox]

From napoleon dynamite movie. Something about chicks sleeves being poofy.

I never understood that movie...

 

[zzuupp]

nef

 

[zzuupp]

ned

 

[MotF Bane]

Hi guys.

Alfa, congrats!

 

[sdifox]

ni

 

[MotF Bane]

It's late, I'm thirsty, and I'll probably need to snack, especially if I have a drink.

 

[MotF Bane]

Photoshop is copying over, because I want it on my SSD, but installing it via the Creative Suite would take 2 precious GB on the SSD.

 

[MotF Bane]

So I'll install Photoshop x64 on the SSD, and put anything of the Suite I want onto the disc drive.

Speaking the disc drive, I need to dig up a boot disc of Linux to nuke an old Windows install on it that has admin protections.

 

[MotF Bane]

Anyways, we cleaned the attic.

Jesus fuckshit. By noon, it was well over 100 F in there. The attic lost 85% of its stuff... but that stuff is now all over the first floor.

 

[MotF Bane]

I ended up in the basement instead after the attic was emptied, building this computer.

The assembly took a couple hours, then I hauled it upstairs - god almighty, this thing is HEAVY. It weighs somewhere around 65 pounds, but unlike its predecessor, it has no wheels.

It is, however, beautiful. Or it was.

 

[sdifox]

I found my windows 3.1 installation floppies :biggrin:

yes, originals.

 

[MotF Bane]

Turns out the Blood Rage is incompatible with SLI GTX 460 (or with the 460's in general?), so I had to swap out the beautiful black and red motherboard for an older eVGA that I know is stable; duller black, lots of blue white and green. Disappointing.

Also, the eVGA RMA card is broken. The fan is defective. I'm a little pissed about it, or would be if I weren't so exhausted. I'll be emailing/calling eVGA, and this time, I want them to send me a shipping label, because if they'd just started the freaking video card before shipping it out, they'd have known the fan was broken. I don't want to pay for shipping a second time when this one is even more their fault than last.

 

[MotF Bane]

I found my windows 3.1 installation floppies :biggrin:

yes, originals.

Good lord. Archive-fox!

 

[sdifox]

also a new in box os/2 warp.

 

[sdifox]

and a box of Maxcell 5.1" floppies!

 

[zzuupp]

I ended up in the basement instead after the attic was emptied, building this computer.

The assembly took a couple hours, then I hauled it upstairs - god almighty, this thing is HEAVY. It weighs somewhere around 65 pounds, but unlike its predecessor, it has no wheels.

It is, however, beautiful. Or it was.

What! apparently I missed a post or eleven

65 lbs??????

 

[sdifox]

yes, new in box, never been opened.

 

[MotF Bane]

The motherboard swap took over an hour, and that ended my day really. By the time it was finished, everything hurt. But the machine booted - also sans one video card, the broken one.

I've installed the basic programs, but now I have dozens more to go. Office, Photoshop, Creative Suite, set up Foobar's playlists, get my music on the local disc, Pidgin to autoboot, Fraps is missing, JK2 is on the server still, SCII needs to be downloaded, MW4 is on the server, et cetera.

 

[zzuupp]

nef

 

[sdifox]

And DR-DOS

 

[sdifox]

anyone want Super-VHS movies? Widescreen, mint condition!

 

[MotF Bane]

What! apparently I missed a post or eleven

65 lbs??????

Yeah, around 65. My friend and I, at one time, had identical STC-T01 water cool builds, and he weighed his at 64, 65, or 66. Ergo, my STC-T01 had to be the same, and it stands to reason that this new build, being also an all steel case with water cooling, weighs at least as much. It actually is probably heavier, considering the shipping label showed 70 empty, but I think that was an overestimate.

Whatever the story, it is at least half my body weight. Without wheels, and with a filter tray to mess up the bottom grip. It's a bitch, and it's never leaving this house again probably.

 

[MotF Bane]

I pulled apart my cellphone case, a bit of dust around the openings, not bad, cleaned it up. Also cleaned the desk right around the computer.

I'm going blind, the display is so bright and my room so dim.

 

[sdifox]

found some apple-talk cable. right next to 10base2 cable