I Hate Windows!
I dual boot…Windows XP on 1 partition, Ubuntu Linux on the other. Well I started using Windows so I could use XFire…muuuuch easier to talk to people while in a game. My WIndows side is basically a slug. Last night all I had running was XFire and AIM and it was soooo laggy. So I backed everything, formatted the Windows partition and reinstalled XP. All of that went so smoothly, I shoulda known something would happen.
Boy did it…
Got wifi working and then started installing drivers…motherboard, graphics, etc. Installed the Nvidia drivers and it threw me into 4 bit color. I have tried everything…it won’t recognize my AGP slot or the card in the AGP slot. It says my sounds are working in device manager, but i have no volume controls and when I try to open them it says I have no sound device. I was still fighting it at 5 am.
At one point I got so frustrated I slammed my fists down on the keyboard. Instant major pain to the point I thought I broke, cracked or chipped a bone. A knot came up on the side of my hand so I put ice on it for about 6 hrs. It still hurts…but doesn’t look as swollen, so maybe I just bruised the heck out of it.