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Dec. 3rd, 2008 06:26 pm"Remember, my son... patience is a virtue!"
"And you're taxing my virtue." -- Fr. Mulcahy & Hawkeye, "M*A*S*H"
That quote pretty much describes how I feel about Windoze Vista right now.
This morning, I came home from work, got some rest, then woke up to find that my Windoze laptop had gone into hibernation. Fair enough. I press the power button to wake it up. The desktop comes up along with a dialog box saying, "The system has recovered from a serious error." The external trackball I attached via USB doesn't work. I try to get more information on the error, then I get a BSOD.
Lovely. I reboot the system only to get another BSOD as Vista loads. Even better.
I restart and this time do a system restore (yes, I've learned -- the hard way -- that creating system restore points is a GOOD thing). That rolls me back to when I was having problems with my display driver and had to uninstall it, plus Norton AntiVirus needed a LiveUpdate.
Oh, joy.
So I go ahead and reinstall the display driver, update NAV and also update some other software that I figured would need updating. After everything updates, I restart the computer.
Everything appears to load... then the display goes blank. But the HD is still running.
Five minutes pass. Then ten. I decide to let the computer do whatever it's doing and go take a shower.
Get out of the shower. Screen is still dark. I do the 3-finger salute. Screen comes back to life. I'm able to get back to the desktop. So it looks like the extensive boot/update sequence worked.
Reset the desktop resolution and enable SLI on the video card (it's disabled by default when you install the drivers). Restart the workstation.
On next load, I immediately set a System Restore point. Not going to tempt fate and wait for the system restore later in the evening.
So far, so good. But yes, this whole thing has taxed my virtue.
"And you're taxing my virtue." -- Fr. Mulcahy & Hawkeye, "M*A*S*H"
That quote pretty much describes how I feel about Windoze Vista right now.
This morning, I came home from work, got some rest, then woke up to find that my Windoze laptop had gone into hibernation. Fair enough. I press the power button to wake it up. The desktop comes up along with a dialog box saying, "The system has recovered from a serious error." The external trackball I attached via USB doesn't work. I try to get more information on the error, then I get a BSOD.
Lovely. I reboot the system only to get another BSOD as Vista loads. Even better.
I restart and this time do a system restore (yes, I've learned -- the hard way -- that creating system restore points is a GOOD thing). That rolls me back to when I was having problems with my display driver and had to uninstall it, plus Norton AntiVirus needed a LiveUpdate.
Oh, joy.
So I go ahead and reinstall the display driver, update NAV and also update some other software that I figured would need updating. After everything updates, I restart the computer.
Everything appears to load... then the display goes blank. But the HD is still running.
Five minutes pass. Then ten. I decide to let the computer do whatever it's doing and go take a shower.
Get out of the shower. Screen is still dark. I do the 3-finger salute. Screen comes back to life. I'm able to get back to the desktop. So it looks like the extensive boot/update sequence worked.
Reset the desktop resolution and enable SLI on the video card (it's disabled by default when you install the drivers). Restart the workstation.
On next load, I immediately set a System Restore point. Not going to tempt fate and wait for the system restore later in the evening.
So far, so good. But yes, this whole thing has taxed my virtue.
