Saturday, November 18, 2006
I spent today fixing the main computer, because it's starting to get really sluggish and it's time to do a format to restore the shared folder and printer functions. Headed to sls to get a new 160gb hdd, now the main server has got two 160gb hdds on RAID1. Full redundancy backup. It was main easier because the Abit KV8 mobo has a built-in RAID chip and both hdds are IDE.
Cleaned out all the dirt and dust from all the fans, installed another 120mm 0.16A fan to cool the hdds, now the hdds are at a cooler 34.9 degrees Celsius. Dual 120mm fans for the intakes and a 80mm + 120mm for exhaust. Now the system is up and running smoothly again.
Just when I thought it's all over, suddenly my other FXPC failed to boot due to a corruption. Is it my unlucky day or what? It's all because of one damn driver .sys file. A nvatabus.sys file couldn't be found, okay, so it seemed like a simple problem, go boot up in winxp recovery console, and copy the file from the driver cd-rom in dos into the C: drive.
Okay so I thought it was going to be that simple, but turned out, Ms-dos doesn't read NTFS. Which both drives are, to make things worst, they're 250gb sata in ntfs file format. So I am damn ‘suay', (unlucky). I tried a ms xp recovery installation but that gave me a drive cyclic error.
So now I am doing backup on a reinstalled non-sp2 winxp pro, hopefully I can get another working copy of a winxp pro sp2. That's 250gbs of data to backup. Sigh. Talk about Preventive Maintenance.
10:37 AM
