I hate computers
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Windows 8
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Sounds about like my weekend too. My home server (just WinXP using file sharing) UPS died in the middle of a Microsoft Update. BSOD and unable to boot to Safe Mode thanks to an apparently corrupted registry. Took an image of the broken state to be safe before restoring to a 2-yr-old image (my bad for not staying on top of backups!), but that wasn't quite working either. Brought everything except Windows files back from my messed up image, and that was pretty wonky. Decided to put back the messed up image entirely, and after a couple forced chkdsk sessions on boot, I was able to get into Safe Mode and use System Restore to get back to a working state again. I'm just glad I didn't have to upgrade hardware. The kids were already about to mutiny on me for not having their videos available for their network media players. Getting a new machine into a functional state would've taken a couple extra days at least.
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I have a computer that behaves just fine for me and the kids, no matter what we do. The minute my wife needs to do something urgent, she gets a blue screen or the network or the printer craps out. That, my friends, is true pain. (It's probably it's revenge on her for powering down the entire house on everyone as a joke)
My wife is similar, but no blue screen. The tech can watch her at work and then says "It CAN'T DO that!" Or, she turns it on at home, nothing... Tells me to look at it. (I'm going to myself, if it won't turn on what can I do about it?) Anyway, sit done in front of the computer and it immediately comes up. (It was dark for a full 10 minutes and I didn't even touch it.)
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Last week, I wasted a day uninstalling and re-installing SQL server. Today, my HDD goes on the fritz. CRC errors and NT/SYSTEM AUTHORITY mandatory restart. Followed by wont-boot-in-safe-mode. Gulp. So, in the interests of speed (and because my PC was quite old) I went out to buy a new desktop machine. I'll talk about that later...:mad: So, new PC turned on, Weven installed, restore disks (all 4 DVDs) made, time to scrap Mcafee, and norton, and office trial, and put MSE on. Right, now Chrome. Does IE want to play nice? Nooooo, it takes three tries before it even starts downloading Chrome, but finally it realises I'm serious and lets me do it. So, now I can just install from a backup...except my NAS broke a few weeks ago, and I haven't got it back yet. So I have a huge pile of backups I can't get at. So, now I'll have to install SQl Server again, and VS (though I might bite the bullet and use 2010 instead of 2008). And then I can recover my projects (as far as possible) from the old HDD by bolting it in the wifes PC and copying over - at least I have gigabit, so that shouldn't take too long. Then I can find and download my utils, and email... Oh, and I hate this new keyboard. All the keys are in different places, the feel is horrible, and it feels cramped. What else can go wrong? :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
