Difference between revisions of "JK January 21 - January 27"

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'''January 28, 2013''' - I began the day by assisting Jim with some preparations for Dave Perry's upcoming shelving installation.  I marked off the areas where the shelving material is going to go on the wall, including a center line.
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'''January 23, 2013 -''' Created my wiki section, and began keeping records of my work in the lab.  Assisted Ann Marie with cleaning 405 and the water tank.  Ran some preliminary water tests with Ann Marie, then continued installing programs to the two new computers.
  
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I then continued to try and fix the problem with ATI on the new computers.  I located what I believe was the only ATI key in the registry, located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and deleted it.  When the computer was restarted it was gone, however, several .dll files and two .ax files remain in system32.  When I try to delete these they just reappear in system32 in a matter of seconds.  I will consult with Alex and possibly Dr. Jones to figure out how to delete them once and for all before re-installing the ATI programs.
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'''January 24, 2013 -''' Continued installing programs to the new computers, and ran into a major roadblock with the various ATI components.  The drivers are all installed, and the preparatory components of the multimedia center were installed according to the instructions on the web page.  However, the install of the multimedia center itself aborts abruptly, and with no error messages at the "preparing to install step".  The intended multimedia center is nowhere to be found on the computer, and multiple other reports have been found online of similar problems, with no solutions offered.
  
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'''January 29 & 31, 2013''' - I spent both of these days assisting Alex with moving and spacing the clusters.  We moved 14 and 15 over one tower, and spaced out 1-13 so that they could be accessed with ease, and no longer rest directly on top of each other.  This will ease future repairs, and the forthcoming upgrades to the GPU units.
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'''January 25, 2013 -''' I completed the chemical waste safety training course, making me fully trained and completing my first full week in the lab.

Latest revision as of 14:55, 17 July 2013

January 23, 2013 - Created my wiki section, and began keeping records of my work in the lab. Assisted Ann Marie with cleaning 405 and the water tank. Ran some preliminary water tests with Ann Marie, then continued installing programs to the two new computers.

January 24, 2013 - Continued installing programs to the new computers, and ran into a major roadblock with the various ATI components. The drivers are all installed, and the preparatory components of the multimedia center were installed according to the instructions on the web page. However, the install of the multimedia center itself aborts abruptly, and with no error messages at the "preparing to install step". The intended multimedia center is nowhere to be found on the computer, and multiple other reports have been found online of similar problems, with no solutions offered.

January 25, 2013 - I completed the chemical waste safety training course, making me fully trained and completing my first full week in the lab.

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