<strong>Your Name:</strong> Zhang Zhang

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2010/2/5

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T F

<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 6

<strong>The School:</strong> Ray School

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general

<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

Worked a bit with Max on getting the new Gateways set up with software. We wanted to try Ghost, but there really were just two computers of each model, and each group and a completely different set of hardware and necessary drivers. We now have at least thirteen computers to move out of the lab, and will have more once the 12 new computers are ordered.

On a different issue I worked on, several teachers had computers on projector carts that had stuttering audio when playing DVD video. In each case, it was something related to the IDE driver and its configuration. Sometimes, remove the IDE controller in Device Manager would do the trick, since it would reinstall. I fixed one particularly finicky drive today by editing the registry value associated with the drive's read/write mode. Most importantly, the drives need to be on some form of DMA 2 or above, not PIO. The troubleshooting comes in finding out whether or not this is a BIOS, driver, registry, or driver setting problem...