>:( >:( >:( Well, the desktop is back on the Injured-Reserve list. This time it appears to be something serious. I know it must be serious, because it's proving to be dam hard to pin down. I get solid walls of BSOD's- one time it will indicate a bad driver (before any drivers are loaded), sometimes it tells me that it's a bad IRQ call, sometimes an ISPL call to memory allocated to some other program,... I've already wiped the C: drive down to the base silicon, reformatted, and tried reinstalling Windows. All that did was waste about 1 1/2 hours and get me a BSOD right after Windows went into its Load screen. I'm at the 'unhook ALL hardware except the video card and one drive' and try it again.
Man, I hate computers! (That aren't working perfectly)
argh...sorry to hear, Jeff. I hope you find a solution and one that does not cost $$$! yes, computers--other than those working perfectly--are a PITA!
peace,
Gary
Well, I can almost feel your pain, but since my 'puter has also developed a serious "No, I won't" attitude ......... there's a limit. Everything's to be honky-dory when you go back to restore point whatever. At least that's how it's supposed to work. >:( >:( >:(
PS This is brought to you by one of two XP machines that keep on chugging!
There are a few simple joys in life....
One is taking a sledge hammer to a hard drive that irretrievable went south.
A second is replacing a 9-year old XP machine with a new Win 7 one, just because the hard drive went south and you smashed it with a sledge hammer.
There is something to be said for partitioned HDDs. ;) :) Mind you I had to do the "recovery" routine, which in this case meant format C: and reinstall Win7. Other than that .... more hours of work to get back to square one. Amongst other things the usual XP and Win7 on the same network.
My current machine has two hard drives, both bootable, both Win 7. Drives are cheap, nowadays. (I don't have vast amounts of video to store - I'm using about 90 gb and I have no idea how, but they're 440 gb drives, so I can be lazy and not try to find out.)
And I still have the sledge hammer if either gives me trouble - and they know it.... :D
Two drives, 1T each. HD video gobbles space in a big way, that's why I also have two externals with 1T each.
Yep I'm still having fun getting things the way they need to be. ;) ;)
Yeah, XP and the restore point are great... except when the issue is hardware failure. The hard drives seem to be OK. the bios reports each one passes the Smart testing. Power supply reports voltages are OK. RAM tests run clean. BUT, I get BSOD's before Windows can finish booting off the installation CD AND they are never the same one more than twice in a row. That's what happens when something is seriously snafu.