Trekwest and the windows install from hell
ladies and gentlemen, i do swear that every word of this entry (save those used for poetic exageration) is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me.
Why did i just take an oath you ask? because i don't think I fully believe the events of this evening, and considering they happened to me, i fail to see how you shall believe them, excepting maybe you jdx_random as you had a running commentary of the badness in e-flat minor.
Today I came into possession finally of the Delta fasttrack 4x4 that I wrote about as a happy thing, note i came into possession of, not received, some people are bad, that's all i have to say about that.
I had a few moments before dinner and bible-study and so took it upon myself to install the card, it should be quicky to do right?
my OS is too new!
That's right folks, I was running xp service pac 3, and the manual said it would work on xp service-pac 2 or later, well evidently they were lying about the, later. After getting told several times, this device is not supported on your operating system, i decided i had something to say about that, and promptly went to override with an install of sp2. Well sp3 didn't like me trying to put its older revision on over it, and thus told it to go away. So then I decided I didn't like sp3 any more, and thus set about telling it where to go, which proved to be more trouble than it was worth!
make the service pac go away
I had several windows open as is my general failure, but me thinking with my stomach as there was roast chicken minutes from being served, set about the uninstall of sp3. Jaws decided that all the windows open were cramping its style, and as jaws is and jaws does, it definitely desired a front-row seat on the fucking off of a fellow component. this not being granted by the general clutter of my taskbar, jaws decided it would get stoned, and upon reaching that decision it employed something that must've been real good, because i then had very little response from good old eloquence. I pressed y a couple of times as i knew I needed to do and walked away, thinking that surely jaws would finish its joint and sit back and watch as windows did its thing.
After study and a very good supper i returned to find, to my dismay, that jaws was still smoking, and i must say I hope whoever was dealing doesn't come to me because those synths were getting high for a good 2.5 hours, but instead of bitching about this i just rebooted and atempted the process again!
atempt 2
This time jaws was right on his toes, really enjoying the stuff, until one dll decided it didn't want to go away, and windows rebelled, sending everything into a nice error report, one that bary would've been proud of!
reluctantly i hit everyone's favourite don't send button, and went back in yet again.
atempt 3
This time jaws was even more intense and windows had realised that I wasn't gonna let it win, so rather than trying to stop me, which it didn't, it just set about to make sure it did not die in vein.
i want my sound back! someone broke it, and i'm going to get it back
My first signs of impending doom were jaws throwing up a few windows, saying wait, i shouldn't be doing this? as the removal was going on, but i was not ready for what awaited me on the flipside of the customary reboot.
The harddrives spun and chugged and generally did stuff for about 5 minutes, and then the machine decided to boot yet again. by this time i'm sure good ol' petrucci is fed up with the various boot processes and checks and just wishes they would all go away, well good computer I agree with you.
However they did not go away, and when the drives ceased their general noise-making, i noted no jaws. I input my password and hit enter, knowing the drives would go apeshit if it had logged me in, which it had. then I noted, no sound at all. "oh well" i thought, it was a simple go to run, type sndvol32, tab twice and space to uncheck the mute. upon the volume control executing however the machine let out a pc-beep that clipped like a bitch, and then i realised, there's no soundcard!
I then spent about 2 minutes searching for my usb headset that i'd only used 2 days previous? man you'd think i'd have a better memory right? well eventually i found it and plugged it in, nothing.
Now as you can imagine i was starting to not like life much, so i apologized to the machine and rebooted yet again!
Still, nothing at logon, but that's ok, i put in the password and thank God the familiar wooshing of Andre's soundscheme, but still, no speech.
let's reinstall the world
My first task was to get speech running, and Jaws was totally unresponsive. Fearing the worst I loaded narater and my fears were proved correct! i flinched inwardly as memories of jdx_randomandbecca_tamagochi being screwed for days by video-intercepts flooded my conciousness. however I told myself that unlike them I know what i'm doing (or at least like to act like i do), and so i installed, and restarted yet again, i'm telling you it really was getting old by this point!
I think every piece of technology in the room and probably all the other inanimate objects along with them joined in my sigh of relief as eloquence started babbling at me at the logon, but i didn't like what happened after windows loaded. I was flooded by windows of things being broke, all the messengers, a couple of found new hardwares, and a jaws activation dialogue? um no? i hit activate and thanked every deatie under heaven (the ones up there have more important things to do than to worry about my technical issues), because my codes had been remembered. However, the auth manager decided to crash 3 times, and i was starting to consider the prospect of rebooting every 40 minutes until i could be screwed fixing it, as i definitely had more important things to fix.
Finally the licence submitted but was rejected, aparrently i've broken things, shared the cds and generally sucked enough that they thought they wouldn't let me have another key, and that made me sad. with maybe half an hour until the next reboot i made sure windows updates on mass were downloading, and went for device manager to see what if anything was showing up. I was pleasantly surprised to see that most things were there, though none of the network adaptors excepting the ethernet were at all functional, and the internal soundcard didn't even register an entry.
That's ok i just had to find the cd, which is easier said than done when there must be near on a dozen discs that came with my custom-built del, and as luck would have it, the one I wanted was the last I pulled out. By this stage i had installed updates, however was holding off on a reboot, as you do. However jaws didn't like that much and decided to hide the button to tell the machine to wait! and thus it didn't.
Oh well, i got back in, had more activation wars, more random errors and finally I was able to take over, and feed the cd in, and after a little bit of tense diplomatic negotiation, the various drivers and things that had been missing were re-installed.
I'm happy now that my machine is back the way it should be, as i'd been having issues ever since I got it back after hardware replacements involving a format, which was done rather fakely with an image and then 5 minutes online searching for drivers by a repair-doob, who i won't be using again.
Finally the soundcard was installed, and its first thing to do wasn't to thank me, wasn't to smile and say hi, but to go oy! what's this thing plugged into me! I of course told it it was a line-in, which it seemed satisfied enough with, and then i disconnected the USB, and life returned to relative normality.
what about the delta!
Now i installed the delta drivers and they worked! i went to the panel for the card and found, device not connected. well i begged to differ on that point, but you can't argue with a computer, so I rebooted and for no reason what-so-ever, jaws recognised my activation, and shut up about it hopefully and probably for good. Now that was all well and good but the delta was also shut up,, and it was supposed to be speaking, singing, yelling, cursing me for all i cared, just doing something!
I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers again, still nothing.
Finally I threw my hands up and said fine! i'll restart you again! only this time, unlike the first, I left the card on for the reboot. as soon as windows showed up the machine started to go into super-panic mode, and then speech vanished from my ears, and about bloody time! i had sound coming from the main outputs of the delta!!!
since then i've played around with things, made sure everything is on the right channels, been careful to set things in such a way that will greatly minimise the bus-noise, and generally make life good for everyone.
So ladies and gentlemen, when you listen to future episodes of supreme insanity and time-wasting noise, just remember, the ordeal that was endured for your enjoyment!!
now, i think i need to sleep. have fun with your own don't send buttons.
Why did i just take an oath you ask? because i don't think I fully believe the events of this evening, and considering they happened to me, i fail to see how you shall believe them, excepting maybe you jdx_random as you had a running commentary of the badness in e-flat minor.
Today I came into possession finally of the Delta fasttrack 4x4 that I wrote about as a happy thing, note i came into possession of, not received, some people are bad, that's all i have to say about that.
I had a few moments before dinner and bible-study and so took it upon myself to install the card, it should be quicky to do right?
my OS is too new!
That's right folks, I was running xp service pac 3, and the manual said it would work on xp service-pac 2 or later, well evidently they were lying about the, later. After getting told several times, this device is not supported on your operating system, i decided i had something to say about that, and promptly went to override with an install of sp2. Well sp3 didn't like me trying to put its older revision on over it, and thus told it to go away. So then I decided I didn't like sp3 any more, and thus set about telling it where to go, which proved to be more trouble than it was worth!
make the service pac go away
I had several windows open as is my general failure, but me thinking with my stomach as there was roast chicken minutes from being served, set about the uninstall of sp3. Jaws decided that all the windows open were cramping its style, and as jaws is and jaws does, it definitely desired a front-row seat on the fucking off of a fellow component. this not being granted by the general clutter of my taskbar, jaws decided it would get stoned, and upon reaching that decision it employed something that must've been real good, because i then had very little response from good old eloquence. I pressed y a couple of times as i knew I needed to do and walked away, thinking that surely jaws would finish its joint and sit back and watch as windows did its thing.
After study and a very good supper i returned to find, to my dismay, that jaws was still smoking, and i must say I hope whoever was dealing doesn't come to me because those synths were getting high for a good 2.5 hours, but instead of bitching about this i just rebooted and atempted the process again!
atempt 2
This time jaws was right on his toes, really enjoying the stuff, until one dll decided it didn't want to go away, and windows rebelled, sending everything into a nice error report, one that bary would've been proud of!
reluctantly i hit everyone's favourite don't send button, and went back in yet again.
atempt 3
This time jaws was even more intense and windows had realised that I wasn't gonna let it win, so rather than trying to stop me, which it didn't, it just set about to make sure it did not die in vein.
i want my sound back! someone broke it, and i'm going to get it back
My first signs of impending doom were jaws throwing up a few windows, saying wait, i shouldn't be doing this? as the removal was going on, but i was not ready for what awaited me on the flipside of the customary reboot.
The harddrives spun and chugged and generally did stuff for about 5 minutes, and then the machine decided to boot yet again. by this time i'm sure good ol' petrucci is fed up with the various boot processes and checks and just wishes they would all go away, well good computer I agree with you.
However they did not go away, and when the drives ceased their general noise-making, i noted no jaws. I input my password and hit enter, knowing the drives would go apeshit if it had logged me in, which it had. then I noted, no sound at all. "oh well" i thought, it was a simple go to run, type sndvol32, tab twice and space to uncheck the mute. upon the volume control executing however the machine let out a pc-beep that clipped like a bitch, and then i realised, there's no soundcard!
I then spent about 2 minutes searching for my usb headset that i'd only used 2 days previous? man you'd think i'd have a better memory right? well eventually i found it and plugged it in, nothing.
Now as you can imagine i was starting to not like life much, so i apologized to the machine and rebooted yet again!
Still, nothing at logon, but that's ok, i put in the password and thank God the familiar wooshing of Andre's soundscheme, but still, no speech.
let's reinstall the world
My first task was to get speech running, and Jaws was totally unresponsive. Fearing the worst I loaded narater and my fears were proved correct! i flinched inwardly as memories of jdx_randomandbecca_tamagochi being screwed for days by video-intercepts flooded my conciousness. however I told myself that unlike them I know what i'm doing (or at least like to act like i do), and so i installed, and restarted yet again, i'm telling you it really was getting old by this point!
I think every piece of technology in the room and probably all the other inanimate objects along with them joined in my sigh of relief as eloquence started babbling at me at the logon, but i didn't like what happened after windows loaded. I was flooded by windows of things being broke, all the messengers, a couple of found new hardwares, and a jaws activation dialogue? um no? i hit activate and thanked every deatie under heaven (the ones up there have more important things to do than to worry about my technical issues), because my codes had been remembered. However, the auth manager decided to crash 3 times, and i was starting to consider the prospect of rebooting every 40 minutes until i could be screwed fixing it, as i definitely had more important things to fix.
Finally the licence submitted but was rejected, aparrently i've broken things, shared the cds and generally sucked enough that they thought they wouldn't let me have another key, and that made me sad. with maybe half an hour until the next reboot i made sure windows updates on mass were downloading, and went for device manager to see what if anything was showing up. I was pleasantly surprised to see that most things were there, though none of the network adaptors excepting the ethernet were at all functional, and the internal soundcard didn't even register an entry.
That's ok i just had to find the cd, which is easier said than done when there must be near on a dozen discs that came with my custom-built del, and as luck would have it, the one I wanted was the last I pulled out. By this stage i had installed updates, however was holding off on a reboot, as you do. However jaws didn't like that much and decided to hide the button to tell the machine to wait! and thus it didn't.
Oh well, i got back in, had more activation wars, more random errors and finally I was able to take over, and feed the cd in, and after a little bit of tense diplomatic negotiation, the various drivers and things that had been missing were re-installed.
I'm happy now that my machine is back the way it should be, as i'd been having issues ever since I got it back after hardware replacements involving a format, which was done rather fakely with an image and then 5 minutes online searching for drivers by a repair-doob, who i won't be using again.
Finally the soundcard was installed, and its first thing to do wasn't to thank me, wasn't to smile and say hi, but to go oy! what's this thing plugged into me! I of course told it it was a line-in, which it seemed satisfied enough with, and then i disconnected the USB, and life returned to relative normality.
what about the delta!
Now i installed the delta drivers and they worked! i went to the panel for the card and found, device not connected. well i begged to differ on that point, but you can't argue with a computer, so I rebooted and for no reason what-so-ever, jaws recognised my activation, and shut up about it hopefully and probably for good. Now that was all well and good but the delta was also shut up,, and it was supposed to be speaking, singing, yelling, cursing me for all i cared, just doing something!
I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers again, still nothing.
Finally I threw my hands up and said fine! i'll restart you again! only this time, unlike the first, I left the card on for the reboot. as soon as windows showed up the machine started to go into super-panic mode, and then speech vanished from my ears, and about bloody time! i had sound coming from the main outputs of the delta!!!
since then i've played around with things, made sure everything is on the right channels, been careful to set things in such a way that will greatly minimise the bus-noise, and generally make life good for everyone.
So ladies and gentlemen, when you listen to future episodes of supreme insanity and time-wasting noise, just remember, the ordeal that was endured for your enjoyment!!
now, i think i need to sleep. have fun with your own don't send buttons.