In Happier News

Haruhi and Yurie are up and running.  Haruhi was still having problems with Memtest86+ - just a couple of errors on a complete pass of 8GB of ram, but that's three too many.  I pulled out the ram, rearranged it (so I could see if the errors tracked the module or the socket) and reinstalled it.  And it came back clean on a full 3-hour test, so it looks like it was Just One Of Those Things.

I was seeing some video glitches before, so I underclocked the built-in graphics, suspecting that it was overclocking itself the way memory was.  That seems to have worked fine, and it's running Aero at a quite acceptable speed.  You'd hope so, but it's nice to see that it works like it should.

Now I just need to install approximately 12,000 programs to get my usual working environment back.

Oh, and speed?  Pretty snappy.  I had a Core 2 Duo 2.4 at my previous job, and this feels about the same, though it's slower in benchmarks.  Definitely much faster than Lina, my 2003-era P4 2.6.  So despite the extra day taken to assemble them, I'm pretty happy with my two tiny goddesses.

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