It's all I did this weekend; Set up the computers
When I finally unpacked the new system, I found that Dell seems to have forgotten one of the DVD drives I ordered. Only they didn't. The bozos at the factory forgot to remove the front plate, because when I fired it up, the computer sees two drives. I even tried to eject it from Windows and there's a buzz, click, thunk from behind the plate.
So I had to call them up to make sure that if I opened it, I wasn't going to void a warrenty. Which I would have, but as long as I've got tech support on the phone while I do it, I'm covered. A 10 minute job turned into about 40 mins. The guy couldn't believe it had happened either. He was sure that because the drive won't sit properly if the plate is there, I have to be mistaken.
Nope. But I'm sure they're trained to be "surprised" by problems. "That's the first time I've ever heard of that."
After that fiasco on Friday, I left the grunt work for Saturday. The two tons of stuff I have on my old system.
It's like moving. I have to weed through the last 3 years' worth of pics, videos, documents, music save games and everything else to see if it's worth bringing over. It's a nightmare. Not to mention all of Tine's stuff as well. Thankfully, she isn't the electronic pack-rat that I am.
Microsoft has a nice little utility for porting over stuff that came in very useful. Even pulled all my old Outlook emails with it, so I haven't lost anything.
Except for a few games that I want to reinstall the systems were running fine as of Sunday morning. I had tried to remove the second hard drive from my old system, but the new one uses some new-fangled connections so all the stuff I have stored there will have to be pulled over to the new system as some point soon. Unfortunately, that's like 60 GB of data.
I think I might have to move the tower to under the desk. The new disc drives are loud as hell. I can't hear anything when the ROM drive is running.
It almost hurts my ears.
posted by Evil Wayne @ 1:52 PM
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