So as many of you know – Hellwolf has been out of commission for the past week. Apparently his Ethernet adaptor went haywire. I offered to take a look and see what I could do for him. His wife arrived at my office at around 10:30ish this morning and I proceeded to see what makes the wolf tick!

After a quick boot up I feared the worst. It was almost 4 minutes to get into windows. “This system is running windows XP, this should be much faster!” I thought to myself. As I opened the device manager to see if the Adapter was flagged; I saw the system stats.

“An Athlon 64×2 4200, with 2 gigs of ram?! This is what powers the infamous alliance slaughtering Hellwolf?!” I said to myself in disbelief. I patiently waited for the system to move forward and made the call. “The Wolf cannot run on such a feeble sickly machine!”
Frantically I dug through all of my salvaged computer parts I have acquired over my years of technical work for my company. I came across some larger ram sticks and a new motherboard and chip. “It’s not much, but it’s a start!”

I opened the Wolfs Den (the side panel) and was immediately attacked by dust bunnies! I collapsed to the ground gasping for air; I should have been smarter then this! Surely the wolf would leave traces of his victims in his Den! I dusted out the machine with my trusty compressor and began to work. I reached in to pull out the first screw out that was holding the motherboard and was attacked! Two 1” long nail rolled onto my lap!

“Surely this was an old trap that was used to capture other would be looters!” I said to myself as I smirked and continued working. As I pulled out the old mother board and added the new ram sticks I realized that the board I was putting in was the exact same one that I was replacing – what are the odds? I chucked to myself as I saw the fruitlessness of my effort; but decided to carry on … After adding the new motherboard I grabbed one of my many hard drives and also added that thinking that he may want to save some of his old files!

“Alright! Now to install windows 7. Windows XP is simply far too old for the wolf to be at his peak performance!” I grabbed my trusty windows 7 disc and attempted to put it into the systems cd rom. unfortunately…“Bah! The wolf clearly must have no time for cds! This CD rom has had no love for a long time!” I said to myself as I replaced it with something a little more worthy. “At last! Now we may begin!”

After about 45 minutes the system was back up and running. A quick wipe with some cleaner I found and the Wolfs Battle wagon is alive and kicking again. Prepare yourselves for the return!