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Right now the I am coping back the documents etc to the PC of my in laws. But let me tell you about the adventure that i had to go trough to get to this stage.

It started all Thursday. All the components arrived and I began to put it all together. But when i was connecting the cables I ran into the first problem. The 24-pin cable was to short!! What the fuck is that about? I mean i admit it is a tight case, but damn. Would those 10 cm of extra cable really be that much of a problem? Anyway so Friday i had to get myself an extension cable. So after i finally got the extension cable I could get back here and plug in everything else.

Then the second thing came. I realized that the firmware of the motherboard was outdated. And that if I would just install windows ( believe me I tried to make them switch to linux ) the transfer mode of the Optical drives would be set to PIO instead of DMA. And that (thanks to our good friend bill) I will not be able to change that. How do I know that? Because my dad has the same motherboard. So now is my question why! O Why can’t MSI just get it right at once. Or ship theire motherboards with a more recenter version of the firmware. This one was more than a year old. Ah well. So I had to drive back to my place to get a floppy with the new firmware. After that i was ready to go and install windows.

I know windows says that they are a userfriendly OS etc. But why is it then that the start of installing the OS is not even a little bit graphical? I mean with many linux distros i can just choose to use a GUI to partition my hard disk. But in windows. No way. Now not that I don’t get the partitioner I am just wondering why doesn’t MS does something about that?

Ah well now it is time for some breakfast.