{"id":1758,"date":"2003-08-18T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2021-05-25T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:47:37","slug":"blog-within-a-blog-my-new-computer-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/08\/18\/blog-within-a-blog-my-new-computer-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Within a Blog: My New Computer 5.5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/gadgets2bug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s been a while since I wrote an update on my progress. A lot has happened, but I was too busy working on my computer to write about it. I got my wireless networking equipment at the end of July and it was the first weekend in August when my new computer really started to shape up. I had Windows 2000 on my EIDE drive and I loaded an OEM version of Windows XP Professional onto the newly installed SATA drives. On the second weekend I moved my DVD burner from my old computer to my new one, and thus the computer was pretty much complete.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cPretty much\u201d save for two stumbling blocks. One was the fact I was unable to activate my OEM version of Windows XP Professional. I had ordered it from an online store called TekDeal (at tekdeal.zoovy.com, if you must know), so I assumed it would be legitimate; but when I tried to activate it, I saw:<center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/osscam.jpg?resize=450%2C102&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"102\" style=\"border: 2px solid #555;\"><\/center>The OS arrived on a legitimate Microsoft CD and with what I assumed was a valid product ID, but not according to Microsoft. Maybe I missed something, but it feels like I got scammed. (And it turns out I didn&#8217;t even need to get XP Pro, since my hyperthreading processor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/support\/platform\/ht\/os.htm\">is supported under Windows XP Home<\/a> as well.)<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The other problem was with my ATI video card. I was noticing anomalies during boot-up as well as substantial problems during DVD playback &#8212; which, for a brand new card, were simply not acceptable. I took some screen grabs, as evidence, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/ati\/index.html\">they can be seen here<\/a>.  My newsgroup research suggested this had nothing do with drivers but was a hardware problem. After a few e-mails to ATI (where, in response, they merely forwarded the driver FAQs off their web site), they finally provided me with an RMA so I can send them the card for repairs.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; TekDeal, on the other hand, has not replied to any of my e-mails.<br><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newcompdone.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newcompdone-sm.jpg?resize=350%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" border=\"0\" title=\"Click to enlarge\" style=\"border: 2px solid #555;\"><\/a><br><small>The new setup, lighting the way for small ships and watercraft<\/small><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s been a while since I wrote an update on my progress. A lot has happened, but I was too busy working on my computer to write about it. I got my wireless networking equipment at the end &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/08\/18\/blog-within-a-blog-my-new-computer-5-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20,16,27,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-new-computer","category-me","category-photos","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}