Just a tiny annoyance… I didn’t like “board index” showing as the root all the time and simply wanted to change it to say the site forum. If you’ve googled for anything related to “board index” though, you’ve probably been bombarded with a bagillion unhelpful hits, since… well by default those words show up on every single phpBB3 site.
Anyway, here’s how you change it… continue reading…
Time for a reformat, and instead of Vista, I decided to put XPÂ on this machine this time. To be honest, I had forgotten about some of the installation issues that tend to arise with an aging operating system…
First up, a BSOD right at the beginning of the boot disk install. As it turns out, the particular blue screen is caused when the installer can no longer read from the install disk (or something to that effect). Very quickly, I realized it was due to the dvd-rom drive being SATA. I quickly swapped it with an IDE cd-rom drive, and the installer made it to the point of letting me know there were no drives detected to install XP on (I expected this, the drive swap was more-so to make certain it wasn’t a totally separate issue).
In any case, there are 3 options should you happen to be in the same situation as I… continue reading…
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