Record Time Teardown!

[borkborkbork]

This Is What AC/DC Can Do To You... Five Minutes And 17 Seconds! Do I Smell A Record? Click Here To Watch Record Time Teardown (http://media.putfile.com/Record-Time-Teardown)

[Synthohol]

now put it back together and get it to boot into windows.
you have 6 minutes ;)

[Nettik]

Record time my :mad2::mad2::mad2:! We had a competition in silicon valley for my highschool, which is 70 north of Los Angeles. We did not win, due to some crap... I mean serious bull. Anyways, with my two friends and I, we were doing a Dell tear down in less than a minute, then putting it back together in a tad more than a minute and a half.

I know there were three of us, but that guy was moving turtle compared to us. We are talking all pieces too, everything disassembled. We would of won the tear down, except it was all one session, from down and back up and we had some random (still unexplainable and errorless) problem. Could not tell you what happened, because we did it a million times before, that time it did not start up and we took it all apart after trying to mess with it, then put it back exactly the same... then it worked (10 mins later).

:Nettik

[borkborkbork]

I Got It Together In 15 minutes And It Booted To Windows in the usual 2 for my comp, I Previously Dropped "Mimi" twice With Harddrive in so i dont think being torn apart is going to make a diff

[borkborkbork]

ill put up the video, had to truncate it to the teardown because of bandwith... the video is 90.8mb...

[Nettik]

Was that you?

:Nettik

[borkborkbork]

hells yeah

[borkborkbork]

never seen a 14 year old not suck?

[Nettik]

Sorry, but after two minutes you still didn't have any thing out of there. I thought you were being serious about the tear down time record.

:Nettik

[Flybye]

Flybye in 2 cuz I got the leet skillz :D

Hey Synth, lets see him put it back together and make it run in 15 minutes having to deal with IRQ issues like we had to 10yrs ago :P

[borkborkbork]

i have it on pnp and its a uniboard, no expansion :P

[borkborkbork]

:P im putting up my rebuild

[unacceptable_risk]

Years ago, at the end of the hardware component of my IT studdies we had a strip and build test. The fault diagnosis part was easy, then we moved onto a fresh system build.

I had felt more like a teachers assistant throughout the hardware course component, so I was determined to blow ppl away with a lightening build.
They pointed us at a pile of Pentium era hardware and said go.

I got the pieces in place very fast, and hurried through the partitioning and install of win95 from multiple floppies lol. Done! and I step back from my creation, and look around at people still piecing things together, and struggling with HD pinsettings.

My lecturer actually looked surprised.. and he sat down to check my work.
As I watched over his shoulder, I realised to my horror, I had forgotten to set the OS partition as the "active" partition. I knew that I had outfoxed myself, and was not going to pass on account of rushing too much.

The lecturer is grinning, because he has just hit Ctrl Alt Del, and he knows its not going to work propperly. A small crowd gathers..

It worked!!! it worked perfectly. As in, it defied all logic and just worked anyway. :D:D:D The OS fired up, the pc just operated as if I had set the correct active boot partition.

My lecturer was beside himself. he spent much of the rest of the class messing with it, trying to work out how it was working lmao. In the end, I got my full marks. But I was just very lucky. At least I know PC wierdness can go in ones favor from time to time :D

[Flybye]

I assume the planets were aligned in your favor that day :)

[illmatik]

You should see what the RHCE lab practical part is like. They sit you in front of what was a working server/workstation.. Pop in a floppy which breaks the machine. and give you 15 minutes to get it booting to X and logged in w/ all services running. I flunked the first time by bumping the box with my knee and rebooting it just before I could finalize the fixes :( at least it was on the company dime

[Synthohol]

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:NCI000

And the matching (and required) file in the config.sys has the following format:

DEVICE=C:\CDROM\SomeName.SYS /D:NCI000



bad memories......

[borkborkbork]

AMIBIOS Was On Auto For Everything.... Sigh...

[Flybye]

I remember when the universal CDROM drivers finally came out :)

[borkborkbork]

good times... i hate 486