01.11.2004 12:57 - The End of The Affair
At long last, (touch wood!) my music PC seems to be working.
On opening the machine and moving all the IDE cables out of the way, I discovered I had board revision 1.0U. I found the relevant file, installed it, crossed my fingers and rebooted. The problem with the ATA100 IDE card has gone away, and I now have all drives working perfectly. I am now able to burn CDs again, and proved it by burning a compilation CD (since I have to make one for Wigan). I am also now able to burn DVDs, which is going to make backing up all the songs I have in progress on the 2nd hard drive a lot easier.
For the technically-minded, I now have a 2600 Mhz AMD machine, with 512Mb memory, using the old Soundblaster live soundcard (no point in changing to a better sound card just yet, I\'ll finish the 2nd album first). The computer contains two 20Gb Hard drives, one as system, one for recording, and a CDROM and a DVD +- burner. All drives are master drives, each on a separate IDE channel to prevent bus contention slowing anything down. Graphics are provided by the old NVIDIA used in the previous 300mhz machine, and run at 1280x1180. I want as big a screen as possible when editing waves and working on multitracks.
Software remains the same, Cooledit pro, only upgraded to 2.0. Again, no point in changing horses half-way through a race.
