What I wanted = A program to scan my collection of disk drives and say things along the lines of 'Whoa pal, this disk is so old Noah used it for his laptop on the ark!' What I got: An anime girl reading my disks and telling me the current price of petrol somewhere in the world. Look, I don't know what's going on here either! Surely it can't be that hard to do a little background check on my disks here can it?
We have power, we have display, now we just need the onboard system to live in direct harmony with all the random bits and pieces I've plugged into it instead of it pretending there's nothing there. 'No Dave, I have no freaking idea what you're talking about here. What graphics cards? What Wifi adapter?'..
Hopefully there's some old school drivers still out there!
DRIVERS FOR THE K200
You can find the drivers for the Nvidia Qauadro K2000 right here (495MB download).
Painfully simple to install, the installer has not only installed the drivers that I needed here (so that Garage Intelligence recognizes it as a K2000 and not 'Whatever that thing in the slot is' but also update the audio driver too so I can get the crispest sound on a hot game of Commander Keen I guess?
Actually, curious about what I could play with something like this rudimentary graphics card, I put the question to Perplexity A.I. And color me impressed, it's far better than I thought:
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| Skyrim on a K2000? Really?? |
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| It can play Forza? Get outta here! |
So maybe this last option will turn out to be a couple of steps better than first thought? I guess we'll find out soon enough when we possibly get it involved in the A.I power side of things. In the meantime, it's happily recognized and I'm all the more happy for it.
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| Suddenly a wild K2000 appears! |
DRIVERS FOR THE WIFI
You can find the drivers for the PCE-AC68 right here (size dependent on what OS you're using) although while searching for them, I came across a picture that made me go 'Oh wait a minute..' Namely the tri-antenna setup it originally came with. Yes the three ports at the back are for the cords to the tri-antenna (and I have no idea where that's ended up) but hopefully they'll work anyway with what I've scrounged up (the drivers will tell the story in the end I guess.)
And bless, running the installer took me back to the days of installing drivers direct to CD (undoubtedly this is the exact same installer as from the factory CD.)
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| Now that's taking me back! |
Just like the GPU installer this is just a couple of clicks and all of a sudden when you check on your internet connections available, half the street suddenly appears. Which also means yes you don't have to have the antenna hub with the PCE-AC68, it runs just fine with a couple of antennas screwed into the card itself. Now I can reset the time so it doesn't think it's 2019 all over again and get to a bit more housekeeping.
NO SPACE FOR THE WICKED
According to My Computer, I have a C: drive and nothing else. And that's when I remember that I cleared everything off all of them when installing Windows. So it's just a quick jump over to Disk Format and putting the other two back into play.
Now AtomOS/Windows recognises three drives with virtually nothing on them, winner! Actually speaking of AtomOS.
FROM WIFI CITY TO OPTION TOWN
I didn't notice this before but directly after AtomOS installed itself, it put a very handy folder on the desktop for me called Post Install, full of things you can tweak and options to continue to get rid of things you don't want.
Not only does it have a 'Remove Edge' (Microsoft Edge, not Edge the AEW wrestler) option but there's also installers for browsers like Brave, Chrome and Firefox to take it's place. There's also installers for other things you're probably going to need sooner or later like 7Zip too which is very handy. I can't explain what everything in there is for or does but it's a very handy feature after the install so a massive shoutout to the creators behind AtomOS for thinking ahead of 'What are the first things people do right after a fresh Windows install?'
Somewhere in there is probably the option to return my shutdown option but thinking on this, tapping the arcade button just once does the same thing with barely any effort so I might leave that one alone.
THE SYSTEM WORKS
We're up, we're running and it didn't involve much heartache or cost (all I've spent on this is time and $3.50 on a some electrical tape!). Now to bench test a few parts from around the garage to see what's still got legs to stand on and go from there!
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