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Jan. 30th, 2004 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cabbitzillaHrm. Annoying.
What looked to be a relatively clean install of Windows XP Professional on the Athlon XP 2000+ has turned out to be anything but. However, it works well enough to dump my mp3's and avi's (live action Sailor Moon! Squee!) over to the secondary drive. I'm going to lose my saved games and such for a bunch of the little games, but I consider that fairly trivial.
Why'm I going to lose them? Because I'm going to blow this sickly install to bits and do it clean. And to the four friends who INSISTED that the 'upgrade' option was as good as the advanced clean install, I wave my vaguely phosphorescent hindparts at thee.
Harrumph.
Yes, I'm being peevish. I'd also like to note publicly that the Hercules Game Theater XP is a /marvelous/ sound setup...IF you can get the motherflamin drivers to install properly. Lots of luck on that one, because you're going to need it. Of course, if you're like me and prefer Athlon based machines on VIA chipsets, you almost -have- to use something other than Creative Labs hardware; they also suffer from the dread disease can't-write-a-clean-freakin-driver-to-save-mummy's-life.
*snerk*
Oh well. Well, I seem to have stuffed everything I can onto the secondary, so now it's time to... *grins* Oh, what the hell...
Yes, I'm a little wocked on my meds. But it's entertaining. :)
~Ellie
What looked to be a relatively clean install of Windows XP Professional on the Athlon XP 2000+ has turned out to be anything but. However, it works well enough to dump my mp3's and avi's (live action Sailor Moon! Squee!) over to the secondary drive. I'm going to lose my saved games and such for a bunch of the little games, but I consider that fairly trivial.
Why'm I going to lose them? Because I'm going to blow this sickly install to bits and do it clean. And to the four friends who INSISTED that the 'upgrade' option was as good as the advanced clean install, I wave my vaguely phosphorescent hindparts at thee.
Harrumph.
Yes, I'm being peevish. I'd also like to note publicly that the Hercules Game Theater XP is a /marvelous/ sound setup...IF you can get the motherflamin drivers to install properly. Lots of luck on that one, because you're going to need it. Of course, if you're like me and prefer Athlon based machines on VIA chipsets, you almost -have- to use something other than Creative Labs hardware; they also suffer from the dread disease can't-write-a-clean-freakin-driver-to-save-mummy's-life.
*snerk*
Oh well. Well, I seem to have stuffed everything I can onto the secondary, so now it's time to... *grins* Oh, what the hell...
Cry HAVOC! And let slip the wild cabbits of hardware...
Yes, I'm a little wocked on my meds. But it's entertaining. :)
~Ellie
