[isapros] Re: OT: The Most Powerful PC on the Planet!
- From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:46:34 -0700
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:
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> 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
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> On 7/1/06 7:11 AM, "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx> spoketh to all:
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>> 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----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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