Learned two lessons tonight:
1. Plug the keyboard into the wrong PS2 port and the computer really freaks out -- will not boot. Thought I had fried a hard drive. Glad I had not.
2. When you swap the controller cables on the motherboard (reverse which is plugged into which), the D drive, whose controller cable is plugged into the C drive socket on the MB, had better have windows system files or nothing but the dos prompt works. Windows is quite finicky about loading without himem.sys and some others. Really tested my memory of some of the old dos commands. Dir/p (which I always preferred over dir/w) let me know that my D drive was plugged into the C drive socket on the MB.
Was reminded of something I knew but had forgotten:
The inside of the box gathers LOTS of dust and needs periodic cleaning. Tried a hand held computer vacuum but ended up using the regular household vacuum cleaner. Heavy duty jobs require heavy duty equipment and attachments.
Troy
Those who shoot from the hip usually end up just shooting themselves.
Plan the grub and grub the plan.
Where is the party tonight? Who is bringng the drinks?
