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February 15th, 2006, 12:36 AM
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Re: AZ: Fear & Loathing in the land of Microsoft
3 is not a good idea if you use NTFS... Windows will not boot up if you change the motherboard and/or CPU on it. I think this is just when you install on NTFS partition, but am not sure if it applies to FAT32 with any WinNT line.
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February 15th, 2006, 12:44 AM
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Re: AZ: Fear & Loathing in the land of Microsoft
Yep. Hence, putting it dead last, and the "will be buggy" tag at the end. But it's something to try if the first two options either don't work or aren't remotely feasable. After all, if, after attempting that, he has to wipe his hard drive again, he really isn't any worse off, other than time spent....
But hey, opening up a computer to pull components is fun, so long as you have a reason for it and a hope of accomplishing something....
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February 15th, 2006, 01:50 AM
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Re: AZ: Fear & Loathing in the land of Microsoft
Although... I wonder what would happen if you just get to the first reboot, but don't complete the installation and swap hardware then.
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February 15th, 2006, 09:15 AM
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Re: AZ: Fear & Loathing in the land of Microsoft
Try unplugging the board and re-pluging it into another port. Also check the bios, some boards need to have a setting enabled for USB keboard support from bios. And lastly, some old boards can't support usb keybords during setup.
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February 15th, 2006, 06:19 PM
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Try unplugging the board and re-pluging it into another port. Also check the bios, some boards need to have a setting enabled for USB keboard support from bios. And lastly, some old boards can't support usb keybords during setup.
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This new Pheonix/Award BIOS I have now is the only one I've ever had that supports anything USB, and yeah I had to manually turn on that setting. Go grab that old PS2 keyboard over there under your sweatpants in the closet...
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February 15th, 2006, 09:21 PM
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This new Pheonix/Award BIOS I have now is the only one I've ever had that supports anything USB, and yeah I had to manually turn on that setting. Go grab that old PS2 keyboard over there under your sweatpants in the closet...
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USB keyboard support is a little iffy still. A lot of the systems that I order have a preinstalled image that I provide from a running system. The end user still has to boot the system and connect the keyboard after windows loads. And yes, there are some PS2’s on the shelf in the back room just in case. Actually, most of the systems coming in now don’t have any PS2 sockets.
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February 18th, 2006, 03:56 PM
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Re: AZ: Fear & Loathing in the land of Microsoft
No PS2 sockets?! Oh noes! Thanks for the advice folks, turned out scrounging a USB-PS2 adapter out the the ole box o' spare parts did the job nicely.
Unfortunately I seem to have nuked a lot of stuff that I thought was on my main partition, but turned out to be on my Windows partition. Like my bookmarks. 
More importantly though, I wiped off a really handy little CD-MP3 ripper, and now that I'm in the mood to convert some of my collection for my MP3 player, I can't remember the name of it. Anyone have any suggestions for a simple, FREE (not shareware, but acutally free), MP3 ripper?
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