openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1 Part 2

Well, I gave up on B1 and decided to revert to M2...

One thing I found was that M2 has the correct 12.2 repositories (ones that belong to 12.2) so I suppose I actually could just use M2.

As for GRUB2 testing... well, i'm gonna have to wait on that... or whenever I burn B1 again with K3b (with Melty)

AMD FX 3

Okay, so I stuck that new PSU with Lie-chan and no problems. So my assumption is that the rail for the extra 4 pins of the 8-pin CPU connector is faulty, since Lie-chan only needs the original 4 pins. So I think I'm just gonna save myself the trouble of contacting them and waiting for a replacement and sending that back.

Anyway, onto the main reason why I came to type (hopefully I can finish quickly). She finally has a name! Melty Do Granite from Shining Hearts. I went through about 17000 characters on ACDB, came up with 9 candidates, narrowed it down to 3 and did a 17-round elimination where Melty would generate a number between 1 and 99...

Well, I'll finish up later... In a thunderstorm and the internet went out...

2014 update: I actually forgot to finish this comment/post (v1/v2), and now it's way too late to remember what I was going to write.

openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1 Part 1

Well, so far my experience isn't very good. First the background isn't working, second I can't get the other monitor to extend the desktop, third everything in Yast is broken.

Now I know the ISO itself is good, but it also could have been a bad burn maybe... I dunno....

Well, if I'm up to it later I may turn Mei-chan on and burn it with K3B and not Brasero.

AMD FX 2

Well, got the case yesterday and transferred everything over except the PSU. I saw that the new PSU had a built in PCIe rail and decided to use that instead of the one that was in the old case that didn't have one. Got everything good to go and whatnot and then went to sleep then work.

So after I come home, I decided to install Linux Mint 13 (after burning it while in LM 11)... Which for some reason installed a broken GRUB2... So I had to reinstall LM11...

After that, decided to boot into Windows and right before the login screen, the computer shuts off. I tinkered a bit, tried again (doing this for several times; dragging the computer back and forth in the process) before finally coming to the conclusion it was the new PSU that was faulty.

Sometime during those attempts (I think toward the end), I pulled the PSU I was using out and noticed something was catching... Holy friggin' crap! There's the built in PCIe rail that I thought wasn't there. I must have hidden it so well from myself that I forgot about it... Then again, I didn't need it for Lie-chan since there was a molex connector on the motherboard for the PCIe slot.

Anyway, after swapping the PSUs (and just lazily reconnecting everything and not undoing some of my tinkering), I turned it on, got into Windows and started doing stuff... while expecting for something to happen. Luckily nothing so far (I'm typing this on the first boot XD).

I may return the fans (except the side fan and front fan) to the motherboard and see if that does anything (not to mention it makes it a bit neater.... sorta anyway).

One of the other hypotheses I had was that the 8-pin CPU plug extension cable I used to route it behind the mobo may have been the culprit... Nope, I was wrong, but I think I'll leave it as is. I really don't feel like messing with it any more for at least the first half of this month. I will also try that with the fans as well.

Well time to do a quick "stress test" to make sure everything's fine and dandy now... Hopefully I remember to write XClio an email sometime.