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Computer Death, New Fursuit Project
16 years ago
Certifiable Mad Scientist: I have a Death Ray, and I know how to Use It.
So two bits of news to post about (since I just tried to post it and FA ate my post). The first is my main computer is more or less dead. I have been running Windows XP forever and a day, through multiple hardware changes, and a few disk mirrors to get it to continue to work. It has been hanging on through an amazing number of glitches that somehow cause it to work.
One of my hard drives began to file and kill my SATA access speeds. I did not have the space availible to back the HD up and so have been 'dealing with it'. Last month however, I got a new 1.5Tb drive (Usable: 1.3Tb. 200gig is a whole hard drive, wtf?) and since I did this, a copy of Win7 Professional has fallen into my lap.
Unfortunately installing the new HD upset the careful balance of glitches and warnings, and so my boot drive has since decided to cease to function. Luckily I have a copy of WinXP that still sorta works from last mirror, but now I can't get the Win7 DVD to boot... my bios doesn't like boot from SATA DVD. All my IDE40 DVD drives are toast. On top of that I want to go 64 bit and I can only upgrade to the 32 bit version off of XP32... and I'm running dual 64 bit opterons.
If anyone knows how to set up a boot USB stick or something to slide over to 64 bit mode so I can install this OS, let me know?
Other news! I blame
touchmybadger for this one... I have a new fursuit concept. Its more then just a suit, its a whole character actor role. Thankfully the wonderful community of SacFurs that does craft night likes the idea too... This suit will have their own FA account. :D
Myself, I have a long list of things to do for this character including: Seriously getting back into shape, learning to play the guitar, learning funk guitar, and doing a lot of voice study and imitation research. Not to mention I have to start studying movements and body language to pull this off... if I do, though? It will be awesome in a diamond-studded can. Also enough LEDs and fiber optics to scare people.
One of my hard drives began to file and kill my SATA access speeds. I did not have the space availible to back the HD up and so have been 'dealing with it'. Last month however, I got a new 1.5Tb drive (Usable: 1.3Tb. 200gig is a whole hard drive, wtf?) and since I did this, a copy of Win7 Professional has fallen into my lap.
Unfortunately installing the new HD upset the careful balance of glitches and warnings, and so my boot drive has since decided to cease to function. Luckily I have a copy of WinXP that still sorta works from last mirror, but now I can't get the Win7 DVD to boot... my bios doesn't like boot from SATA DVD. All my IDE40 DVD drives are toast. On top of that I want to go 64 bit and I can only upgrade to the 32 bit version off of XP32... and I'm running dual 64 bit opterons.
If anyone knows how to set up a boot USB stick or something to slide over to 64 bit mode so I can install this OS, let me know?
Other news! I blame
touchmybadger for this one... I have a new fursuit concept. Its more then just a suit, its a whole character actor role. Thankfully the wonderful community of SacFurs that does craft night likes the idea too... This suit will have their own FA account. :DMyself, I have a long list of things to do for this character including: Seriously getting back into shape, learning to play the guitar, learning funk guitar, and doing a lot of voice study and imitation research. Not to mention I have to start studying movements and body language to pull this off... if I do, though? It will be awesome in a diamond-studded can. Also enough LEDs and fiber optics to scare people.
