Contents tagged with Longhorn

  • Bad news/good news

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    • Bad News: Longhorn doesn't appear to like my video card (or at least the XP drivers), and either automatically reboots or blue screens when rebooting after installing the drivers.
    • Good news: The Last Known Good Configuration setting works, and got me back into Longhorn, with the video card set to use the generic drivers.
    • Even better news: The good performance I was crowing about in my previous post was without any hardware acceleration!
    • Bad news: I suspect my chances of finding Longhorn-compatible drivers for this card are slim to none.
    Ah, well. At least the performance is more than acceptable, even if I'm not taking full advantage of the card I bought for this machine. Guess I'll have to boot into Win2K3 to play HALO. :-)

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  • Just installed Longhorn...again.

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    OK, so I probably should've just gone to bed, but I figured what the heck, and went ahead and installed the Longhorn PDC preview on my new Dell PowerEdge 400sc. What a difference proper hardware makes! Not only did the install go much faster than when installing in a VM (no big surprise there, other than the extent of the improvement), the hardware detection phase only took a little longer than the 10 minutes it claimed (as opposed to the couple of hours reported by some). The install was certainly both easier and faster than any other version of Windows I've installed (including the Windows Server 2003 install I did last night).

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  • Got my Dell PowerEdge 400SC

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    Got the machine that I ordered for my longhorn, etc. experiments. I actually got it on Friday, but my wife told me in no uncertain terms that I needed to finish my latest article for the MSDN ASP.NET Developer Center before I opened the box. She was right, of course, as I proceeded to (as soon as the article was done and wending its way to Kent) stay up until 5am getting the server (mostly) set up.

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