Its been a while since i was a techie, yesterday was the first time in quite a while that I’d set-up a machine from scratch.

Things have changed a little since my day, everything’s got smaller and hotter. Who knew that running the machine with its lid of would cause it to overheat, something to do with the airflow being pulled over the components for better cooling. I had a little problem with overheating but nothing permanent, though i must play with the fans a little, as it sounds like a jet, there must be a happy medium.

So anyway, I reinstalled the machine from scratch, new hard drive, new installation, best to do things right. I must say installation of XP Pro iwent with no problems. THe things that surprised me was the number of critaical updates that had to be done, 77 in total, and thats since the release of service pack 2.

Oh well alls well now, on to setting it up as my web and data server.

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