[isapros] Re: OT: The Most Powerful PC on the Planet!

Well, it was a good try... Everything's fine except the X-Fi audio of all
things.  Nothing.  Nada.  Even the new super-secret beta drivers from
Creative don't work.  No tunes is a deal-killer for me.

Back to x64 :(

t


On 7/1/06 11:21 AM, "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> spoketh to
all:

> 
> Well, I'm about to dive in and see how well it goes.  Should be interesting
> have "Server" as my client OS ;)  Too bad you can't upgrade from XP Pro to
> Server... That would have made the testing a bit easier.
> 
> Anyone else have issues when doing multiple boots with multiple SATA/SATA2
> drives?  No matter what drives/partitions I choose to install a new OS on a
> different partition, the modified boot.ini always uses a signature() in the
> boot path rather than the multi() syntax, and it never boots into the
> install bits.  Manually changing the path to specifying the proper
> drive/partition works to boot into the install, but I always get the dreaded
> x7b stop error after that.  This is true regardless of the Win OS being
> installed and probably due to bad mojo on the references to the sys drivers.
> 
> I actually have to disconnect all my other drives to get a "clean" install,
> at which point I go and edit the boot.ini on my original C: to boot into the
> OS.  That works fine, but doing it that way makes me feel like I'm sportin'
> a shanker.
> 
> t
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/1/06 7:11 AM, "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx> spoketh to all:
> 
>> Yep, looks like that's where I'm going too. I'm tired of waiting for
>> these VMs to sure a lousy 4GB memory and two procs.
>> 
>> Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
>> Site: www.isaserver.org
>> Blog: http://blogs.isaserver.org/shinder/
>> Book: http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7
>> MVP -- ISA Firewalls
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thor
>>> (Hammer of God)
>>> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 6:50 PM
>>> To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [isapros] Re: OT: The Most Powerful PC on the Planet!
>>> 
>>> Then I'll still be in the "no drivers, limited software"
>>> environment. Looks
>>> like there won't be any perceivable (or real, for that
>>> matter) performance
>>> difference between the two, yet I'll get full memory support and my
>>> preferred environment out of x32 Ent.
>>> 
>>> I'll just have to see how the drivers go...
>>> 
>>> Stay tuned!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 6/30/06 3:19 PM, "Steve Moffat" <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> spoketh to all:
>>> 
>>>> What about Ent 64 bit?
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>> On Behalf Of Thor (Hammer of God)
>>>> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 7:08 PM
>>>> To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Thor; Young, Gerald G
>>>> Subject: [isapros] Re: OT: The Most Powerful PC on the Planet!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-versus-Windows-or-32-bi
>>> t-versus-6
>>>> 4bit
>>>> -1349.shtml
>>>> 
>>>> This is an interesting benchmark test between x32 and x64
>>> bit.  I may be
>>>> stuck in "x64 is way mo betta" for no reason.  From a speed
>>> standpoint,
>>>> anyway...
>>>> 
>>>> So, Ent Ed on this guy might actually be the way to go.  And in all
>>>> actuality, I wouldn't really need to worry about loading
>>> virtual server
>>>> on it anyway, as I would just load everything into that instance.
>>>> 
>>>> I'll see if everything loads properly... Good call Gerald. Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> t
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 6/30/06 2:36 PM, "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> spoketh to
>>>> all:
>>>> 
>>>>> Now that's an interesting idea... Load Enterprise Ed of
>>> Win2k3 to take
>>>> 
>>>>> advantage of all the RAM while still being able to have the full
>>>>> experience of sound, preferred apps, video preferences,  etc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, I'd loose the x64 environment, but keep all the goodies while
>>>>> still using Virtual Server the way I want to.  Plus have
>>> the benefits
>>>>> of having "Server" running.  Hmmm.  Not bad.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So the question now becomes, "how much faster is x64 than x32?"
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anyone?
>>>>> 
>>>>> t
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 6/30/06 2:24 PM, "Young, Gerald G" <Gerald.Young@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> spoketh to
>>>>> all:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> FedEx it to me?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Put *nix on it and try to get wine to work with your Window apps?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Try Vista, which may or may not support 8 GB of memory (can't
>>>> remember).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Use W2K3 Enterprise (x32) and keep most, if not all other
>>>>>> functionality?  The server OS is a pretty stable game
>>> platform since
>>>>>> almost all XP drivers work on it (or at least they have for me).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Enterprise shouldn't set you back too far since you can
>>> afford that
>>>>>> beast of a rig you got. :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You could also take up the hobby of 3D rendering or graphical
>>>>>> editing, if they aren't already hobbies of yours.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You could also probably put that puppy to work with the
>>> SETI screen
>>>> saver.
>>>>>> Who knows, you might actually find THE signal. :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> While I'm envious (from a gaming perspective) I look at buying
>>>>>> something like that akin to buying a mansion to live in
>>> when you're
>>>>>> single.  What ARE you going to do with it? :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Not to mention, can you imagine cleaning a mansion by yourself?!
>>>>>> Cordially yours,
>>>>>> Jerry G. Young II +From Blackberry+
>>>>>>   MCSE (4.0/W2K)
>>>>>> Atlanta EES Implementation Team Lead
>>>>>> ECNS Microsoft Engineering
>>>>>> Unisys
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 11493 Sunset Hills Rd.
>>>>>> Reston, VA 20190
>>>>>> Office: 703-579-2727
>>>>>> Cell: 703-625-1468
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Sent: Fri Jun 30 16:56:54 2006
>>>>>> Subject: [isapros] Re: OT: The Most Powerful PC on the Planet!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Pass it around to share?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> John T
>>>>>> eServices For You
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Seek, and ye shall find!"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> WTF do I do now?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> .
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> t
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