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In which everything goes kablooey......
Jan. 17th, 2006 09:52 pmThis ain't my week, folks.
Yesterday, after a trip to Micro Center in Sharonville and picking up a way-cool Firewire cable with blue LEDs, I swapped the Firewire cable on my external hard drive. And then.....nothing. It was like I lost the drive; the computer could no longer see it. So I switched the cable back to the original, and it still couldn't find the external drive.
Today, at two of my favorite wireless internet hangouts, I was trying to get updated driver info. But each time, I could access the router, but not the internet. Well, I did reinstall Windows after the other hard drive sort-of crashed.
And maybe that's part of my problem.
So now I have driver problems that I don't quite know how to fix. Reinstalling them just doesn't seem to cut it.
A couple of years ago, I requested and received a CD-ROM of all the updates for Windows 98 SE at the time the CD-ROM was pressed. I can't find that disk now. And when I look for it on Windows update, it's no longer being offered. And I'm at a loss as to how I can request Windows Update to reinstall critical patches that are apparently no longer there.
So why not upgrade to XP, as Microsoft wants me to do? First, the laptop is a Pentium 166 MMX. IN other words, it's obsolete equipment to them. Second, the desktop has some old software and BIOS (the BIOS date stamp is June 2000). Third, Microsoft has more then enough money, and I don't..
Sigh.
Yesterday, after a trip to Micro Center in Sharonville and picking up a way-cool Firewire cable with blue LEDs, I swapped the Firewire cable on my external hard drive. And then.....nothing. It was like I lost the drive; the computer could no longer see it. So I switched the cable back to the original, and it still couldn't find the external drive.
Today, at two of my favorite wireless internet hangouts, I was trying to get updated driver info. But each time, I could access the router, but not the internet. Well, I did reinstall Windows after the other hard drive sort-of crashed.
And maybe that's part of my problem.
So now I have driver problems that I don't quite know how to fix. Reinstalling them just doesn't seem to cut it.
A couple of years ago, I requested and received a CD-ROM of all the updates for Windows 98 SE at the time the CD-ROM was pressed. I can't find that disk now. And when I look for it on Windows update, it's no longer being offered. And I'm at a loss as to how I can request Windows Update to reinstall critical patches that are apparently no longer there.
So why not upgrade to XP, as Microsoft wants me to do? First, the laptop is a Pentium 166 MMX. IN other words, it's obsolete equipment to them. Second, the desktop has some old software and BIOS (the BIOS date stamp is June 2000). Third, Microsoft has more then enough money, and I don't..
Sigh.
