Thursday, 20 March 2025

Dead System Saga: Episode 7: The Return



Unpacking

The beast is back! I have named it "Vulcan", the Roman name for the Greek god of fire. Hopefully, this doesn't result in an irony attack when the damned thing catches fire.

Everything looked okay on inspection. The GPU support tool was still in place but a bit wonky. 

Wonky, but nothing appears broken.

That said, the machine took a few boot-up attempts to show a display, which was a Bitlocker unlock screen. Once that was resolved, everything looked good.

First Job: install Mouse without Borders, a keyboard and mouse share application, so I can use the keyboard and mouse across both my machines. It took a few attempts, but that's working.

Next Job: Transfer the Blender directory. 1.34TB of data, which Windows predicts will take three and a half hours to copy from my Western Digital Portable SSD.

All my Blender eggs are now in three baskets (Athena/Vulcan (new machine)/portable storage.)







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