Tag Archives: hardware

The laptop rebuild continues

Posted on January 7, 2011 by way0utwest

Not done yet, but I have been slowly patching and installing software over the last few evenings, stuck at my desk most days. It’s amazing how little software I have on DVD, and how little I need. Once I got … Continue reading →

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Rebuilding the W510 – DVD Driver Issues with x64

Posted on January 5, 2011 by way0utwest

I backed up my machine, copied a bunch of data to both a thumb drive as well as the second hard drive on my W510, and get ready to install Windows 7 x64. First I had to add memory. I … Continue reading →

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Rebuilding my laptop

Posted on December 27, 2010 by way0utwest

I finally got around to adding the new memory (16GB), removing the old 4GB and then replacing the DVD drive with an SSD. Now he hard part: rebuilding the machine. In order to use the 16GB, and get VMs to … Continue reading →

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64 Bit

Posted on December 21, 2010 by way0utwest

Today we have a reprint of an editorial from Nov 25, 2005 as Steve is on vacation. No news yet on SQL Server, but apparently the next version of Exchange will not have 32-bit support. The reason appears to be … Continue reading →

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