what did you do this weekend?

did anyone do anything exciting? tell me stories...i'm bored again.

Whew, I had my cousin' birthday on saturday but that wasn't the highlight of it all. His PC, a cheap 900MHZ Celeron HP with WinME had been nothing but a pain! As usual, WinME=Crash and the fact he messed it up with bloatware and hacker content. It was extremly unstable. We finally got around it and decided to just format and in fact install Win2000. Forget WinXP, 128MB SDRAM is not my idea! He had obtained Win2000 from a friend so we started. At first we tried an upgrade form of Win2000 by formatting and using the HP recovery CDs, which meant extracting bloatware as well like AOL or MSN and countless programs they never use, and finally WinME. Installing Win2000 afterwards was rather sluggish and it would jam at the splash. We decided to just format and install a fresh Win2000 installation, no other OS or any HP programs. Again we could not get past the splash loading screen. I was so impressed I actually found the solution to his prob, which took 2 days lol, we fixed it finally today Sunday!
I felt really proud, I never once troubleshooted such in my life. The problem was that his GF4 MX420 PCI (yuck!!!) was conflicting with the already installed and pre-configured Intel Graphics driver on-board. Win2000 seems to boot into 1024*768 with 16-bit color and you can guess, a video card that has no drivers would definitly not work with such res and colors! Thinking about it, I thought why not try this weird VGA Mode option in the boot menu, we did so and got in Win2000 in 16 colors. Fixed it by installing and removing the Intel graphics. WOW, it worked, the uncle who was with me all the time yelled with happiness, everyone jumped, I was so happy I finally fixed a system with hardware problems as well. And the system FEELS more performing with Win2000!
He will get more RAM soon, as 80MB is already in use right from startup, out of 128. Well that's what you get anyways with OEMs and their on-board crapola.
Speaking of which, talk about limited expansion in the case! 3 PCI, 2 DIMM banks, w00t! Only thing I appreciated and found interesting was HP's fan duct system, which has a duct right above the CPU fan, leading to the fan grid outside behind the case. Quite ingenious I might say! (rest assured, it CAN be removed in case we need to, otherwise the hell with DIMM bank 2!

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Saturday I went on a 10+ mile hike /w a few friends in really steep terrain+ snow (and weather so cold the second u took ur gloves off ur hands started hurting like hell). Sunday I stayed home and had the honor of holding up a 100 pound panel while my dad drilled it into boards on ceiling. Then I studied/ pretended to study and looked at case mods.

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

Being real high in the air + the higher windchill makes it much worse.

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

We're already over you guys anyways lol.

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Bad joke Wingy!

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My boss from work came over to my place ot have a couple of beers. She brought her daughter and a friend and another guy I work with came over. Well she got to my place at 3 on sat. She went out and bought liquor and then started drinking at 5. by 7 she was puking all over my apt. and breaking my furniture. I dunno. It was kinda funny seeing my boss smashed, yet horrifying at the same time because my place is getting really trashed. All in all it was a really good night. She wanted to leg wrestle me. It was so fun. hehe.. Oh course I have uber job security now because I have <b>PICTURES!!!!</b> muh hahaha ahahah ..errrmmm anyways.. besides my place being trashed and my horrible friday afternoon I'd say my weekend was cool.

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Nope.
I wouldn't do that.

Besides i had my gf there to keep my company.

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W00t... we want to hear those hot sex bits! Which corset did you pick?

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

ROFLOL... funny boss you have.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

Oh but they make the little Hooters pop out like biggin's.


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... Are you planning to put a pic of you in it on the internet? You know... you just make us all wonder and curious.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

Any pics will be for PooBaa's eyes only!

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I'll make sure I don't wear the corset around Hammie then LOL

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Good point!
...I'll have to put him in his cage.

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Now that does sound like our Hammie. Evil little critter!
Oh well, if he wants to go to that much trouble to take a photo, then he can!

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I've worked on those myself, its a cheap cooling solution, but if you loose that main fan your processors fried, with everything crammed in the case the way it is, its amazing it survives from the lack of air flow through the case, and don't accidently pull out the cooling fans P/Ss, M/B lead, thats a little trick to foul up the Do it yourselfer, I guess. I was most impressed with the unlocking lever that allowed the entire face to pull out, that made a big difference on working on that particular design, I hope you discovered that little feature, it sure makes things easier.






Details, Details, Its all in the Details, If you need help, Don't leave out the Details.

OK, time to hack PooBaa's brain and then upload all the pics to the internet.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

My cousin's HP case uses two special big screws that can be handled with the fingers instead of the screwdriver, you don't remove them, just turns them a bit to unlock then push the case latch. Yes it is quite easy and I wish it were standard on cases.

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