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It’s do-able. That said, it wasn’t fun. I’ll try to walk through the steps it took. Much of this is done by memory, but I just finished, so it’s fairly fresh in my mind (although I’m rather sleep deprived at the moment so bear with me). It’s worth noting that I used an ATI 4850 [...]

The MSI GT735 is a nice affordable gaming notebook computer currently going for around $1000 CDN. Here’s the issue though – the model we got from NCIX has 4GB of RAM, yet it comes with 32-bit Windows Vista. As most people are well aware, the 32-bit version caps out at a little over 3GB of [...]

Oct 25 2009 Update: before plunking down money on a paid anti virus program with activation, you may want to read http://mattgadient.com/2009/10/25/anti-virus-software-and-activation-why-free-just-might-be-better-than-paid/ With the final version of Windows 7 finally being released by Microsoft on Technet, and having a subscription, I decided it was time to grab a copy and start playing with some anti-virus [...]

A minor issue I ran into. My brother got a copy of Spore for Christmas and didn’t have time to play it, so he’s loaned it to me for the time being. I thought I’d give it a try on the hackintosh (using an iDeneb OSX86 installation). It installed fine. Problem was that when running [...]

So it’s been a few days since Microsoft unleashed the Wn7 beta on the public. Reluctant at first, I decided to take the plunge. I’m not a fan of dual-booting, but from what I had gathered it was fairly stable, so I decided to use it as my main OS.   Initial observations (aka what [...]

Time for a reformat, and instead of Vista, I decided to put XP 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 [...]

Alright, I’ve had to do this twice now, and it’s taken a few extra minutes of annoying-ness each time to figure it out, so I’ll put it here. Hopefully it helps someone else. Yes, there’s some background. Skip to the last paragraph if you just want the answer.

Upon installing Vista x64 on an ASUS P5B-VM SE, there were a couple devices in Device Manager that were missing drivers. The first was for the Attansic L1 Network Card, for which ASUS had a driver on their site.  The 2nd was an unknown device. Right clicking and going to Properties showed the location as [...]

A couple days ago, I went through the process of installing the Kalyway OSX install on a white box computer. Since then, I’ve tried on a couple more machines, mixing up the hardware a bit, and have been through about 10 install attempts. None of the installs have gone hitchless, although with enough time and [...]

Some of you may have read my previous experience installing OS X Tiger on “whitebox” computers. I tinkered with it on and off from 10.4.6 to 10.4.8 on various machines but haven’t really played with the new versions until recently. A couple months ago, I got a hold of a couple installers – iATKOS v1.0i, and [...]