Back at work properly now (though I still feel kinda off)

Spent the first day back at a clients ALL afternoon and into the evening
I left at 19:20
Nothing like taking it easy on the first day back then

Today I spent rebuilding and finalising pre-built systems from a supplier.
The motherboards in these PCs do not support optical boot devices on the secondary IDE channel.
Put simply, the usual way to install a CD-ROM was to place it onto the secondary channel and use it to install an operating system.
These systems have a newer system as (and I quote) “SATA is replacing IDE”
It seems the ‘new improved’ way of building a system is to use a SATA hard disc and use the primary IDE for the CD-ROM (thus allowing you to boot from it)

Huge apologies for getting a little technical there :)
I had to get it off my chest – thanks for the therapy !

Tomorrow it’s another of my favourites, a new server install – this one with 5 client PCs
(yup – recently rebuilt and finalised ;))

Now I’m off to bed with a book…

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