{"id":38,"date":"2007-06-20T22:53:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T21:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=38"},"modified":"2007-06-20T22:53:55","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T21:53:55","slug":"what-to-do-when-nothing-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"What to do when nothing works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I downloaded and burned the DVD image for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/windowshomeserver\/default.mspx\">Windows Home Server<\/a> RC set and fired up my cobbled together PC I had chosen as a victim for the new software. All went well until the installer said my BIOS didn&#8217;t support ACPI. But it did. So I downloaded the latest firmware for the trusty K7 Master board and flashed the BIOS. It died. So I dug the BIOS out of the spare board (everyone has one of those don&#8217;t they?) and tried again in a much slower, safer way but that one died too.\u00c2\u00a0 So I stripped anything useful off the machine and sold it on eBay. The boards are on their way to a WEEE-compliant equivalent of landfill.<\/p>\n<p>One bright light around all this was a discovery of a cool website. I&#8217;m guessing you have no floppy drive on your PC anymore right ? So what happens if your hard drive fails or you need to zap a disk partition and you want to go ferreting around in MS-DOS ? No chance of using a bot-disk. I wonderif it is possible to build a bootable CD-ROM ? Oh hang on, my computer is broken and I don&#8217;t have any MS-DOS disks left laying around. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allbootdisks.com\/download\/iso.html\">AllBookDisks<\/a> is the place to visit. Go there today and get yourself another way of getting your broken machine back to life.<\/p>\n<p>I am of course now slowly building a new PC to get HomeServer running. When I do, I&#8217;ll report back on how I get on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I downloaded and burned the DVD image for the Windows Home Server RC set and fired up my cobbled together &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=38\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}