So all of my parts and shit came in.<\/p>\n
It was time to upgrade my Eee PC.<\/p>\n
First things first, I had to flash the BIOS in order to recognize the new parts. I had ordered a new USB thumbdrive, so I went to format it as FAT, which it required in order to find the new ROM for the BIOS… but I couldn’t format it FAT. It was 8 Gigs and thus too big.
\nI raged for a bit. The walkthroughs I had read had told me to use a stick at least a gig big! But dammit, this was frustrating. The ROM was less than a megabyte. I decided to fuck it, and formatted my old 256 meg stick, and tried flashing it with that. That worked. Score.<\/p>\n
So I unscrewed the little hatch on the bottom of the lappy. Inside was the SSD and the RAM. It was a little cramped, with barely enough opening to see them both completely, but eh, I could handle it. I pried the clips on the RAM apart to pop it out. It caught and pinched my fingers. Then I slid the 2 gig stick on in there and clicked it in place.<\/p>\n
I turned the thing on. Blank screen! I turned it on again. Blank screen! Lovely.
\nOh, wait, I’m stupid, the RAM didn’t click in the right way.
\nFixed that, and it booted, and recognized the RAM. Score.<\/p>\n
I then started to unscrew the two screws holding in the SSD. I tried and tried, but my screwdriver couldn’t get ahold of the tiny screws. I searched the house for more screwdrivers, trying them. Nothing could find purchase. Once again, in a bit of a rage, I decided to go buy a set of tiny screwdrivers. I did, and came back. Having the right tool for the job made it work easily. I slide the new 16 gig SSD into the slot and screwed it back in. It’s recognized in the BIOS. Victory.<\/p>\n
Of course, then I had to get an operating system on there. I had gotten it into my head to install Windows 7 RC1 on there, but try as I might, I couldn’t get the installer to boot from a thumb drive. So I said fuck it, and went with my original plan, and installed Easy Peasy<\/a>. The little program got it on the thumb drive easily, and it installed. Score! Then it updated! Score! And then I was almost late for work.<\/p>\n So, uh, I got all the work done… but I haven’t even gotten to try it yet.<\/p>\n Go… me…? So all of my parts and shit came in. It was time to upgrade my Eee PC. First things first, I had to flash the BIOS in order to recognize the new parts. I had ordered a new USB thumbdrive, so I went to format it as FAT, which it required in order to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI’ll tell you how I like Easy Peasy’s modification of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix interface, and if the upgrades helped the computer, soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"