More computerage
Thursday, October 30th, 2003 02:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI have just spent all evening from about 7.30 until well past midnight trying to get my recalcitrant PC to work.
It now is, but with most of the drivers missing, a clunky 16 colour display and no intarweb connection. So it isn't really doing anything other than taking up table space right now. Luckily, Glyn sans LJ has agreed to bring his box of tricks over on Sunday and try to get it going for me. In the meantime, I am using a borrowed laptop, and I REALLY am not used to it - nothing's where it's supposed to be. Still, beggars can't be choosers as they say.
In the meantime, for reasons I don't understand, LJ tells me I've de-friended someone, and I'm baffled both as to whom and how...
If it appears from your list that I've dropped you, let me know and I'll put you back on. It wasn't intentional.
It now is, but with most of the drivers missing, a clunky 16 colour display and no intarweb connection. So it isn't really doing anything other than taking up table space right now. Luckily, Glyn sans LJ has agreed to bring his box of tricks over on Sunday and try to get it going for me. In the meantime, I am using a borrowed laptop, and I REALLY am not used to it - nothing's where it's supposed to be. Still, beggars can't be choosers as they say.
In the meantime, for reasons I don't understand, LJ tells me I've de-friended someone, and I'm baffled both as to whom and how...
If it appears from your list that I've dropped you, let me know and I'll put you back on. It wasn't intentional.
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Date: 2003-10-30 01:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-10-30 01:30 am (UTC)Clearly this did not have the desired effect, anf I expect Caddy will be defriending me as well now...
However, I'll try to sneak a copy onto my boss' PC.
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Date: 2003-10-30 02:55 am (UTC)All I know is that on the install reboot, and all subsequent attempts the PC turned itself off and wouldn't even reboot in safe mode. The best I could get was a DOS C:> prompt with CD ROM support.
I attempted a reinstall of windows from setup - several times, in fact - and the PC turned itself off after the first reboot each time. At no point did it recognise the fact that an attempted setup had started and failed, so I couldn't even go through the failed setup recovery process.
It seems that windows was failing to overwrite and rename old copies of control.ini, sytems.ini and setup.ini. In addition, it was trying to install conflicting device drivers (some of them twice, even when I remmed out the original references).
I tried deleting the setup.txt file in an attempt to force it into writing a new one from scratch, I edited the autoexec.bat and the result was invariably the same. Whatever the application did, it did big time.
I have a very basic installation of Windows 98 running out of C:\windows0 at the moment. Nothing in the Windows directory seems to be recoverable, so I have to wait Glyn (sans LJ)'s arrival with all the appropriate drivers and such. The new installation refused to identify my modem and will not allow me to install the ntl proprietary dial up and register software - it just produces more errors, and it thinks 196mB memory is insufficient to open Internet Explorer.
I couldn't have screwed the machine better if I'd dropped it in vat of acid.
Ho hum.
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Date: 2003-10-30 05:10 am (UTC)Bet nobody's ever reported this to the Nero people, either.