Ok so here's what I've been up to. The apartment has been set, as you may know from my last post. My last day in NYC is August 22, 2006. A bit of a delay from my original plan of August 10th, 2006. But I'm just as excited to go as I am eager to stay another day. August 22, 2006. I have to wake up that morning, that's going to be my biggest complaint.

I'm setting up my computer for the move, I need to clear some space so I did a fresh format. And since I'd had the Vista Beta 2 ISO's sitting around forever I might as well install and give it a go. It didn't detect my HDD's, great. So I figured lets do an upgrade to Vista out of XP. No go either. I gave up and installed XP. All is well until my disk array fails to detect in POST. Ok, re-configure the raid. All is well through the install (again) then windows fails to load. What the fuck is going on here? Not a problem, reload raid drivers.

Is it the heat? My case temp's are through the roof, I think my molex covers (those cheap rubber things that you can salvage off old Dell's) are melting. Maybe today wasn't a good day to be doing this.

While setting up my laptop, I had a better plan to prevent heat problems. I have 2 laptops, an old HP from 2005 and a new Dell from last month. Now, the HP doesn't generate a lot of heat and draws less power. So I'm using it as a terminal of sorts to install what I need on the Dell, via ad hoc mode Wi-Fi while my Dell sits in the fridge. The wonders of wireless networking infrastructures. I have yet to buy a Wi-Fi router/switch so ad hoc is my only option short of running a Ethernet cable into my fridge. I love that word, ad hoc.

My main PC has yet to boot. I have no clue what's up with it, it's been all snafu lately. I'm afraid of taking it to someplace like BestBuy or Compusa to get it looked at by someone else. Do they even know what they're doing or do they just format virii off cheap $500 PC's? Will they reset my FSB? Will they flash my BIOS and reset the voltages? My worst fear is they reset the voltage settings without resetting my FSB which will cause the system to stop booting completely. Then they will tell me my precious AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ is dead.

Back to work.