One of the Fujitsu SCA drives I picked up a while ago died on me yesterday. Which is fine, that’s why they’re RAIDed. Unfortunately, although it’d start ok, halfway through bootup the ipsraidn.sys RAID driver was invariably causing kernel exceptions. Not much use RAID mirroring if you can’t reboot if a partition goes down.
So, I’m now running Windows XP, which I threw on a spare old IDE drive I have lying around. I just installed a dual DVI Gainward card (GF4) so the switch was pretty much inevitable anyway. Matrox was the only company that bothered to implement dual monitors correctly on W2K. I’m probably going to be laying down for a pay of LCD screens soon.
Now that I have a running system, I decided to put the new video card through it’s paces. Since even with BitTorrent, 3DMark03 is still a few hours away (apparently just released with all the servers completely swamped), I decided to hit up demoo and check out some of the latest demos (still waiting for my Mindcandy DVD). 4X AA and 8x anistropic filtering is nice.
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