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New PC Build

I finally got around to purchasing the parts I wanted/needed to enable me to build a new PC. Part funded by selling my older PC (minus 1 DVD drive & HDD) to my parents.

The new PC is a totally different architecture from the last. Where my previous PC was an Intel C2D E8400 (3.0Ghz) with 4GB RAM, the new build is an i7 920 (2.66Ghz) with 6GB RAM. Naturally, that means a change of the motherboard as well due to the differing nature of the processor sockets.

As I'd already got my dual boot system on a 1TB drive, I took that out, and hoped all would be well once I'd built the new PC....they weren't, it wouldn't boot. After much deliberation, and an RMA raised with ebuyer for the motherboard, a friend and I found that ASUS had shipped the board with a jumper in the incorrect location, which was preventing the system from booting. Once we placed in the correct position, everything fired up as expected (much to my relief).

First thing I notice - Windows blue screens upon boot...time to reinstall that then, but not before testing my Maverick installation on the other partition...which booted fine, and detected my CPU rather nicely:

Why thank-you, Ubuntu, for making my hardware upgrade utterly painless...

...and curse you, Windows 7, for making it half a day of hell to reinstall everything