Today, I finally got around to formatting and reinstalling my PC, after much backing up. I think a windows update had its way with the registry, and it wasn't the same afterwards.
I was looking forward to getting RAID 0 working... but even though I managed to get the drivers loaded, the partitions formatted, it wouldn't even make it all the way through a windows XP install. I wrote some haikus that might tell the story.
Nvidia shame
Asus let me down again
Raid not working now
After the initial jubilation [getting the drivers loaded, formatting neat partitions] and then frustration, I gave up... but it had its own set of problems.
Master boot record
Raid setup molested you
Windows never loads
At some point further along...
Haiku Therapy
Anxiety fades away
Stupid computer
Now it's all said and done, with most of the business critical applications loaded and tested...
Mug of camomile
I am getting sleepy now
Windows still loading
There's nothing quite like a clean install. It feels stable. It goes faster. I will enjoy it all the more after some sleep!
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aaah...computers. I was reading your post, Cam, and suddenly (I didn't touch a thing) I am confronted with this "leave your comment box". And I really didn't have anything to say. My "new" computer - which is right next to me - must have sensed my emotive response to learning that even the experts can have problems. What hope do us unlearned mortals have with them?
My old (newer than this one) pc got to the point where the simplest of demands threw it into a frenzy of frenetic activity (is that a cousin to the double negative?)that resulted in such prolonged delays that i had to fit in my various housekeeping duties in between tasks (like opening Outlook Express or typing two lines of text).
So here i am with a "new" $300 ex-government second hand pc and slowly but surely transferring all my programs over.
Reformatting for me was fraught with too many unknown hasards - like not being able to reactivate my expensive software on a different computer (I had - have - over 800 .exe files on the "old" pc). Many were the times I thought "I wish Cameron was here!"
But perseverence has paid dividends and now here i am, sitting in front of my $99 17" CRT monitor; I've got Dreamweaver and Fireworks and Microsoft Office Pro back up and running and a heap of other bits and pieces...as happy as a pig in ....and a five year old computer that seems to go like greased lightning!
Who needs all that fancy stuff?
I like my 17" iMac. It has never caused me any of those problems. All hail Steve Jobs :P
About to cause a contraversy.. allow or deny?
*controversy
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