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2005-08-21

Finally online

Filed under: General — 19day @ 11:26:29

So I’m back online once again. And, of course, there’s a bit of a story to tell, none of which is particularly interesting, but I like to vent my frustrations.

It seems that even plugging a patch cable into my computer and the other end into a working modem and following details steps off a CD program is beyond my ability. As I have recorded somewhat in this blog, I have a very bad time with my computer(s), usually it’s whenever I try to upgrade, the physical hardware, it becomes nightmarish, let’s review together:

1) Put 40 Gig drive in P2 – resulted in rider BIOS needing to be installed, which resulted in no Norton utility ever working from boot again.
2) Install 120 gig drive – resulted in win98 to never installing again as the installer just threw garbage characters all over the screen, needed to install windows XP, and then again every time the computer was turned on again because the thing would kill itself every month or so.
3) Buying new computer – gave me wrong video card, waited a week for a guy to come install the proper one since they couldn’t just send me the damn thing for me to do myself.
4) DVD Burner – Windows complaining that it needed to reauthenticate, but never displaying the numbers I needed to feed to the system to obtain my key. Calls to technical support and giving my computer ID from the stickers resulted in them telling me I had a 64 bit computer that wasn’t even supposed to be built yet and that I must be a pirate. Several reboots eventually solved the problem.

And probably others that I can’t remember right now, suffice it to say, nothing that is supposed to go smoothly seems to when it comes to either my old computer, or this new one. Now, all I had to do was plug the patch cable from the modem that was definitely online to my computer which had enjoyed internet access before, but not for a while.

Nope, no connection, please reboot modem, computer, fridge, and life and try again, joy. I decide to replug the cable in the back of the computer, accidentally jog the monitor cable out of it’s outlet, monitor goes funky, plug it back in, computer reboots, joy. Comes back up claiming it found new hardware, and ethernet card, doesn’t know what to do with it, can’t find drivers off the MS disc (which is where it got them in the first place), no good. Ian comes over at this point, on unrelated business, and tries his magic… after a reboot, no longer even bothering to announce new hardware, a big yellow question mark is now a small yellow exclamation mark, joy.

Finally, open the computer, unseat the Ethernet card, reboot, shutdown, reseat, reboot, oh, there it is, oh, and drivers too, oh joy. Still, XP things it’s disconnected, but internet works, after 2 hours of fun in the sun.

Now I just have to install a month of patches, updates, and viruses :P

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    Comment by 19day — 2005-08-31 @ 23:11:36

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