Dear Gods Help This Idiot!
Solowren:
This makes me very scared. I'm not at home right now. What if my stupid computer downloads and installs SP3 while I'm gone? Or has it already been distributed, and I'm safe?
Should I go home right how and turn off automatic updates?
Madame Mim:
I have Windows patch 3. I didn't know all of this and I very deliberately put it into my machine. My boot up is fine. I also don't own a Deliberately Engineered Leguminous Lump - is it all pre-made machines? Mine is custom. Or only Dell premade machines - which I already knew were phail.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Solowren on 2008 July 17, 00:27:48
This makes me very scared. I'm not at home right now. What if my stupid computer downloads and installs SP3 while I'm gone? Or has it already been distributed, and I'm safe?
It's been out for awhile, so you're already infected. If your computer hasn't failed yet, you're fine. SP3 isn't so much inherently BAD as it is simply unnecessary and risky. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. When you tamper with the machine, even when the end result is supposed to be good, there's a chance that it will instead break. If the machine WORKS, why take the risk, especially if you have no idea how to resolve the consequences?
myskaal:
If you're fine you're fine. I was fine until yesterday when I got the gumption to finally remove secuROM. Going through that process was apparently the cliff to leap off for my OS. It had been building up with little glitches here and there and that was the final straw for it, I guess.
So, back to me needing some help here... again. I've finished the reformat/reinstall (actually on the machine that went wonk now) and I've run into a problem regarding my video card. I replaced the card the that came in the machine with one of my own choosing. I just downloaded the driver for that card. The install wizard is telling me I do not have the hardware that matches the driver. In fact I do.. I know I do. I put the damn thing in and have had it running just fine and dandy for not quite a year now.
Opening up device manager reveals that the only graphics/video I apparently have are listed under "Other". There is no Display Adapter listed after Disk Drives, as there was prior to reformatting. Everything under this Other has the ! on it. Ethernet controller, PCI device, PCI Simple Communications Controller, SM Bus Controller, and -> Video Controller <-
So for some reason the card is not being found or recognized.
I tried checking in Setup (F2 .. bios I believe that is) to see if there was a setting I needed to change but I could find nothing. Video there is set to use the PCI Express slot, which is where the card is.
I'll continue searching for the solution but if anyone has clues or knows what this is about, I'd appreciate the education.
ETU: Solved. The drivers had to actually be installed from the disk that came with the video card - not with the most recent available off the Nvidia site.
Uninstalling and rebooting forced the plug and play installation on the other unknown devices. Now I am down to only one unknown PCI device. The windows auto-install could not locate a driver for it.
Almost there!
NO MOAR SP3!
Kazzandra:
Quote from: Solowren on 2008 July 17, 00:27:48
This makes me very scared. I'm not at home right now. What if my stupid computer downloads and installs SP3 while I'm gone? Or has it already been distributed, and I'm safe?
Should I go home right how and turn off automatic updates?
Always turn off automatic updates.
Quote from: Madame Mim on 2008 July 17, 01:36:11
I have Windows patch 3. I didn't know all of this and I very deliberately put it into my machine. My boot up is fine. I also don't own a Deliberately Engineered Leguminous Lump - is it all pre-made machines? Mine is custom. Or only Dell premade machines - which I already knew were phail.
Nope, it seems it is a widespread phenomenon. My custom rig was affected, not my box. Every time I think I see a cause, someone else ruins it with an exception. I thought it was AMD processors, but, nope.
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