Certification Prep – The 20 Minute Workout

I just posted how I came home to a video issue on my XP machine but the real reason I was looking forward to goofing around in my office was because I just got my pair of 2 TB drives today for my Precision 7400 system running Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) Can’t wait for the performance test on this RAID 0 configuration.

So I’ve been offline most of October – I resigned from Microsoft and started in a new position at Bloomberg (I’ll write a post on that at some point). I just wanted to drop that comment and to say that I just had an AGP video card die on my old XP system. The system was the last white box system I built about ten years ago. Six years ago in July of 2004 I upgraded the CPU, video card and power supply and reinstalled Windows XP and it’s been running rock solid ever since up until today. I pulled an old system pull video card from my parts closet and I was on my way again. I love keeping old system parts; how else can you fix your PC at 8PM on a Tuesday?