PC Rebuild

After 11 days, I finally received some parts ordered from MSY Technologies. The courier, "Fast Way" by name, but certainly not by nature, had delivered it to the WRONG HOUSE!!! Lucky I have honest neighbours. So last week end was occupied with a PC rebuild onto 2 spanking 320Gig SATA drives. I was hoping to stripe them, only to discover my Mobo does not support RAID. I had many problems which slowed me down. To start with, I had keyboard troubles. I have a wireless Logitech, which accessed and functioned in the BIOS OK, but when the message "press any key to boot of CD" popped up, it wouldn't work!! Swapped over to standard perifs. Next, I managed to install a new operating system onto drive G, which would have caused problems down the track. Once drive letters were sorted, I loaded XP onto the other drive (now C:). But when I plugged my old drive in to retrieve settings & files, that kept booting up first!

Anyway, got it sorted eventually, and while things were taking their time loading, I finished off and installed my 1.5m omnidirectional WLAN antenna, and also built 2 "client" directional brick antenna's to set up a private wireless network around my neighbourhood. Hopefully this comming weekend I'll make up the cables and get it FINALLY up and running, then I can get back onto my Mini's interior - installing the fancy race seats & trim that have sat useless for 6 months ... or maybe not?