Thanks to this guy who’s my course member (and also a comrade), I decided to make my laptop as a “scapegoat” to testing a Windows XP 64-Bit Edition that he obtained recently.
What’s more, his newly obtained software coincided with my plans to use a 64-bit OS to make use of my 64-bit ready CPU (it’s an AMD Turion 64×2 TL-58 clocking at 1.9GHz base speed) and also my 4 gigs of RAM, so I prepared the necessary stuff yesterday in a whim (backups etc, it’s not that hard – that guy has an array of softwares that can replace my missing ones, and my files were mostly music files and stuff that I obtained via IDM plus… err, some secret stuff not so important that I had to say it out here.
The installation works, however there were quite a bit of issues that bothers me.
First of all is the unavailability of hardware drivers for the MCP (the Motherboard Chipset module) and the VGA (it’s the display, d’oh). Secondly, that Windows XP has an HD Audio hardware conflict which worsened things for me (there’s no sound playing at all from my laptop at that time), and after much struggling I decided to wait for today and in the process, since too many things will limit my capability of basic things… I went straight ahead for another upgrade to Vista Ultimate 64-bit Edition, also from him. Things worked out well and I managed to make use of my wireless, and finished what was missing. With the chipset and VGA drivers obtained… everything is considered complete for me, and here I am; typing this very first blog post from this newly-upgraded laptop.
All in all, the day was all about “HAHAHAHA!! FINALLY I CAN FULLY UTILIZE MY 64-BIT CPU AND 4 GIGS WORTH OF RAM!!”
And blogging, as a certain someone once said, while waiting for a download to finish is a really good way to kill time… currently I’m getting my weekly supply of Toradora! and Index. Ami, as how I expected it to be, turned out to be way much better than how we know her at her first anime appearance. I’ll be dying to see RyuujiAmi in action…
All right, Shiro out.
