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12/16: I measured some of the fibers in bundle 41, but I noticed traces of the cladding appearing on the fibers, so I stopped until I could consult someone about this problem. I swept lab 405 before leaving.
12/16: I measured some of the fibers in bundle 41, but I noticed traces of the cladding appearing on the fibers, so I stopped until I could consult someone about this problem. I swept lab 405 before leaving.
12/17-12/21: Dr. Jones replaced the hard drive in the computer next to the phone. He showed me that the new drive must be in the master configuration rather than the slave configuration. He instructed me to install Windows 7.
12/22: I installed Windows 7 on the computer next to the phone in lab 403. When I put the installation CD into the DVD drive, a menu of boot options appeared. First I had to enter "1" and later after the computer rebooted it required "2" to complete installation and start running Windows. Another step in the installation was to delete all the partitions on the hard drive because they were not in the NTFS format Windows needed.
12/22: I installed Windows 7 on the computer next to the phone in lab 403. When I put the installation CD into the DVD drive, a menu of boot options appeared. First I had to enter "1" and later after the computer rebooted it required "2" to complete installation and start running Windows. Another step in the installation was to delete all the partitions on the hard drive because they were not in the NTFS format Windows needed.
When Dr. Jones came in he said the picture of the printer should look like the one we have, so I deleted the printer from Devices and Printers and went through the process again. This time I downloaded the [http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=3338905&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4063 driver files] for the 44-inch printer and added the printer from the control panel as I did at first. I found that I had overlooked the same two menus for the manufacturer and printer in the Add a printer process, and that was why I ended up with a 24-inch printer. But we have the same picture that does not look like the printer we have.
When Dr. Jones came in he said the picture of the printer should look like the one we have, so I deleted the printer from Devices and Printers and went through the process again. This time I downloaded the [http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=3338905&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4063 driver files] for the 44-inch printer and added the printer from the control panel as I did at first. I found that I had overlooked the same two menus for the manufacturer and printer in the Add a printer process, and that was why I ended up with a 24-inch printer. But we have the same picture that does not look like the printer we have.
12/29: I put a bad hard drive in a package to be shipped to HGST for warranty replacement. I took one of the hard drives out of the computer in lab 405. To do that, I disconnected the serial ATA and power cables. The other drive was blocked in by the power supply, so I asked Dr. Jones what to do. He removed the second drive by detaching the power supply. That drive was in the upper bay above the optical drive.
12/29: I put a bad hard drive in a package to be shipped to HGST for warranty replacement. I took one of the hard drives out of the computer in lab 405. To do that, I disconnected the serial ATA and power cables. The other drive was blocked in by the power supply, so I asked Dr. Jones what to do. He removed the second drive by detaching the power supply. That drive was in the upper drive bay above the optical drive. It had a special cradle to hold it in the bay because the bay was too wide for it.
12/30: I took the bad hard drive to the physics department office to be shipped via UPS.
I did more work on the computer. Like the old drive in the upper bay, the replacement drives had a parallel ATA interface. There is only one IDE channel on the motherboard with a single ribbon cable that needs to connect to both the replacement hard drive and the optical drive. At one end of the ribbon cable is a connector that sits in the IDE channel. Twelve inches from that connector is another connector that goes to a drive, and 18 inches from the first connector is the other end of the ribbon cable with another drive connector. Thus the two drive connectors on the ribbon cable are six inches apart. I fixed the PATA connector to the optical drive in the upper drive bay, but the other drive connector would reach only to the top position in the lower drive bay. I wanted to find a way to put the new drive lower in the bay, but there were no other IDE channels and no extensions for the ribbon cable, so I decided to put the drive at the top of the lower bay. However, when I tried to insert the drive, it collided with two expansion cards and a heat sink and would not go into the bay. I removed one of the expansion cards, but the heat sink still kept the drive from going in. The upper bay was also obstructed with cables except where the old drive had been. There I would only have to detach the power supply to put in the new drive.
That is what I did. I retrieved the cradle that had held the old drive and screwed the new drive into it. I detached the power supply and mounted the drive. Then I put the case back together, brought the computer to its table, connected peripheral devices and network cables, and turned it on. It displayed messages that there were no bootable drives or files. I inserted the Windows 7 CD but the problem persisted. I thought the optical drive and the hard drive must not be connected to the IDE channel. The connector at the channel might be loose or the the connectors at the drives might be loose. Another possibility that I thought of was that I had disconnected a cable that enabled the IDE channel to work. I opened the computer case again and continued to work on the computer. I even took out the hard drive and tried to disentangle the cables. I noticed that two pins on the PATA interface were bent, so I replaced that hard drive with another whose pins were in better condition. I made sure the power and data cable connections were secure and reassembled the case.
Then I tried to install Windows again with the same result. I tried the 32-bit Windows in case the CD was not bootable because it was 64-bit, but 32-bit was no better. Then I wondered if I was making a mistake in installing Windows. I looked up the installation directions and found that I was supposed to turn off the computer after inserting the installation disk. When I turned it on again, it booted from the installation disk. There were no more problems from that point on.
12/31: The computer by the phone in lab 403 has been turning off instead of sleeping correctly. I found suggestions online to update the motherboard driver, but I wanted to investigate the computer to discover the cause of the problem. I turned it on, and an error described by [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929826 Microsoft] occurred. I found an [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793434.aspx explanation] of KMS activation that may be helpful.
After restarting to install important updates, the activation error disappeared, and I continued trying to find information about sleep. One of the [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266283 knowledge base articles] describes a computer that is unable to wake using the mouse or keyboard. The mouse on the computer by the phone is allowed to wake the computer. [http://www.cnet.com/products/intel-desktop-board-dg33fb-classic-series-motherboard-atx-lga775-socket-g33-series/specs/ CNet] says the motherboard supports ACPI.