Le Château d'Emmanuel Chanel

I live in the northern Kanto Region. The shindo scale of the quake at my house was 6+, I hear.
I was in the hospital then. After the long quake with Shindo 5, the emergency light got on with other lights off. So I panicked to run out without waiting for the lead. The hospital’s building is alright now.
My home, my parents, and I are alright, too.
I’m very anxious about the Fukushima 1 nuclear accident, although the tsunami killed much more lives. So sometime, I’m too much involved in the news about it. And sometime, I posted some comments about the accident on other internet sites. And I haven’t updated any of this blog for a long time. Few would see this blog, though…(Becomig too melancholic, I’ve quited to follow the news deeply for a long time, though…)
My area is longer than 80 km far. So we won’t be affected so badly. I hear that the accident is level 7. But better than the Chernobyl disaster, the reactors are stopped. The accident won’t become worse than the Chernobyl disaster. So I’m not thinking of runing away since I don’t feel that it makes sense. There are very many nuclear sites in the world and we cannot run away far from them.

When I installed VirtualBox in the Fedora 13 era of my Ubuntu 10.10 PC, I found the PC unable to virtualize on AMD-V. But I found that I can do that with the BIOS update. So I updated the bios both on my Ubuntu 10.10 PC and on my Windows XP PC. (Those PCs has GIGABYTE GA-MA69G-S3H.)

I saw the Japanese page about it of GIGABYTE Technology. For seeing the manual on paper, I printed it out.

1. I downloaded BIOS F7 on GIGABYTE – Motherboard – Socket AM2 – GA-MA69G-S3H (rev. 1.0)
2. Execute the file to extract.
3. On my Windows XP PC, I formatted a floppy disk(diskette) for the DOS/V filesystem.
4. Copy gama69gs3h.f7 to the diskette.
5. Reboot the PC. Press [TAB] key and make sure that the BIOS’s version is old. Mine was F4 or so.
6. Reboot the PC and press [DEL] key. After that, seeing BIOS setup, select “Load Optimized Default” and make it load. And “Save & Exit”(I don’t remember if I do that. But it’s necessary as far as I know.).
7. Reboot the PC and press [DEL] key. After that, seeing BIOS setup, press [F8] for Q-Flash.
8. Select “Update the BIOS from Drive” and press [Enter] key.
9. Select “Floppy” and put the cursol on the BIOS file. Press [Enter] and the PC asks me if I’m sure to update the BIOS. [Enter] to continue.
10. When it completed, press a certain key and returning to the Q-Flash menu, press [ESC].
11. On the manual, [Enter] for “Are you sure to RESET?”. But I’m not sure if I did.
12. I got enabled to virtualize with AMD-V on the new BIOS.