Offline Files is a technology that was introduced in Windows XP. We used it for a time then but found it troublesome. I have often wondered why Microsoft needed to use a special folder in the local computer instead of doing something like a straightforward automated sync between a visible local copy of the data…
Still can’t get over how quiet this thing is. From the next room you can’t hear it at all. Although the old one turned out to have quite a bit of dust blocking things up. I got a serial backplane connector from an Asus motherboard and am pleased to report it worked the first time…
Well, such a big project and now it’s over. Very pleased with the new box, just a few niggles of things maybe I should have checked over before I started. Mainly that this board has only got provision for 8 USB sockets, one of those is taken by the card reader and I wanted more…
As we saw in the last post, I started it on the old PC and finished it on the new one. About halfway through writing, I saved the draft on the old PC and shut it down. I then booted from a Windows PE CD and started up ImageX to capture the boot disk to…
Now that we have the board completed, the next task is to install it into the chassis. Your existing chassis should already have spacers installed, the board sits on these spacers to hold it up clear of the chassis. Check that the spacers are in the same number and positions as the board needs, if…