youd think by now after spending so many hours on the new PC, i’d have something else to talk about by now, such as being ‘featured’ on one of the magazines i write for (more on this later), but nooo..
new PC has to make a scene and the WD hard disk crashed just three days from getting bought. That’s right. 3 days. That’s a Western Digital 40gb 7200rpm drive (P2,750.00) for those who wanna know what brand/model to avoid (unfortunately i forgot to have it replaced with a Seagate or Maxtor one, figures). PCExpress changed it of course. I didn’t say “fortunately” they did because this is SOP really.. so for all those ppl out there who haven’t grasped the concept of returning broken things for replacement yet – this is for you: If it got broke due to no fault of your own (and its under warranty of course), go back from where you bought it and they’ll change it. No drama, no need to make a scene. They’ll change it, period.
Anyway, that was yest., and now its 10:01PM and ive reformatted, partitioned, installed, installed some more, and now im YMing with the chief of chiefs on a Wifi connection, using a pci wifi card and the 54mbps Level One router I traded for, discussed in previous posts. I gotta say, wifi can sound tackily pa-high-tech by now, but im still wrapping my head around the idea of surfing comftably in 11mbps (the pci card is only B) w/out a wire – a special feeling for a guy who’s crawled through the tiniest, darkest, weirdest places just to cable PCs.
A final comment before I turn in as my eyes are halfway closed.. i’ve a habit of copying the contents of installation CDs onto dirs i create in a partition to make it easy for future installs, and install from these. this technique doesnt work for ECS mobos though.. for some strange reason when clicking, say, ‘update driver’ on the mobo-based LANcard, it’d auto-detect a driver other than what its supposed to, and install that. Naturally it wouldn’t work well, in my case the wired LAN connection wildly dropped and connected every five seconds, forcing me to install a PCI lancard to connect to the net. You’re gonna have to Autoplay the mobo cd and do it the SOP way, and let it do its thing. Dont even think of trying to skip that and autodetect the CD, not even if you point it towards the right OS directory. Like i said it’d install something else.
Finally, after discovering that, you’d wanna disable/uninstall that faulty driver right? Well guess what. Do that, click reinstall, and itd still install that faulty driver. I know what you’re saying. Uninstall it again, and Autoplay the install CD, right? Nope, Windows will still isntall the wrong driver. I think nothing short of a registry hack will fix this. Gawd it’s annoying – a throwback to old win95 driver issues.
Ok im off to bed now. Oh yeah about getting featured in a mag. ill talk abt that tom :). zzzz.