My first try at major desktop surgery – Part 2
Well I have had a little time to play with the new system and I must say I am extremely impressed.
I was surprised to find out that Ubuntu booted up with no problems. Everything seemed to work like before only faster. I then decided I would check on Windows XP and as I had predicted, it was broken. As I stated in my previous post I assumed that this was going to happen, so no sweat.
With this in mind I decided I would reinstall Ubuntu and eliminate the dual boot system. I was amazed at the speed at which the system installed. It took half the time as the previous system would have required.
With Linux up and running I decided to try and get some applets up and running that would tell me what was going on inside. This was the first snag. It appears that the thermostat for the processor is unsupported. This really bummed me out as I was hoping to overclock the system a little bit, and without knowing the CPU temp it would be a little too risky.
Everything else I installed went off with out a hitch. Now I decided to truly test the new system with a little DVD:rip exercise. Amazing! I was able to rip and encode a 2:09 movie in just a shade over 40mins. I have a feeling a new hard drive could greatly improve this as I am still using IDE 100 drive. But only time will tell.
The only other problem I am having with the new system is Apache2 and PHP. For some reason they don’t want to cooperate but I am sure with a little cursing and some reading it will get worked out.
Next on the list is getting a cable card so stay tuned…