{"id":862,"date":"2008-10-24T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2008-10-24T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T20:21:00","slug":"tempting-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/24\/tempting-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempting fate"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, besides the bodily harm on Wednesday, assembling the computer went off mostly without a hitch. After a false start with the computer failing to boot because I (once again) forgot to connect the second 8-pin power cable to the motherboard (yes, I’ve done this before), it booted without any problem. Vista installed much faster than I expected as well… I’m guessing the hard drive came pre-formatted because it started copying files to it right away.<\/p>\n

By the time I went to bed last night, I had WoW fully patched, with all my addons and configurations copied over, running in all its 60fps glory (42 in Shattrath). I also downloaded FireFox, TeamSpeak and Ventrilo, and I need to remember my TS login which has been saved in my old computer for so long I’ve forgotten it. Next is to download and install Steam and re-install all the various games my old computer couldn’t handle well, like Half Life II.<\/p>\n

There was just this one small problem: When I first got Vista running, I was playing WoW on my existing machine, so I tried doing something that would be very passive. I just started downloading the WoW 2.0-2.4 patch. At one point I decided to play a bit while that was going, so I started another program and it BSODed. I lost half of my download, which sucked, but even more so it planted the seed of doubt that everything may not be hunky-dory. This was, however, before I ran Windows Update, so hopefully it was just a matter of it being not fully patched. The BSOD didn’t linger, so I couldn’t read what it said, and Vista’s error reporting tool didn’t provide much other information other than some other (maybe) unrelated issues with the VGA adapter’s driver not being installed.<\/p>\n

I looked in the BIOS again to see if there was something I missed, but it’s all newfangled mumbo jumbo to me that’s all set to auto detect and looks like the sort of stuff that I’d cause more harm than anything if I messed with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, besides the bodily harm on Wednesday, assembling the computer went off mostly without a hitch. After a false start with the computer failing to boot because I (once again) forgot to connect the second 8-pin power cable to the motherboard (yes, I’ve done this before), it booted without any problem. Vista installed much faster … <\/p>\n

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