I have been brutally traumatized

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First, a few days ago I got a great new video card for 3d games, and it
had disply problems. What a huge dissapointment. I tried everything and
it could not be fixed. I had to return it and tell them to ship me
another one. THEN, my freaking hard drive dies, taking some data with
it, so I go buy a new one. THEN, I had problems making it work because
of the 137gb problem. I tried different combinations of things and
finally found one that worked. I had to make the first partition less
than, not equal to 137gb. Otherwise it would configure them in a
weird, incorrect way that wouldn't boot. The floppies I used to boot
the computer to reinstall windows 2000 barely worked. The drive had
trouble reading them. My life was hanging by a thread. So finally win
2000 is up and running again. What a sweet sight that was. THEN I had
problems making my PVR work (a tv for my comptuer), but I got it
working. Will these harrowing experiences never end? For god's sake,
all I want to do is relax and enjoy my computer. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO
ASK???? I almost feel like crying. Oh yeah by the way I have access to
the full 300 gb of the hard drive now, so everything is finally OK. But
actually I'm still going to have to replace my power supply sometime
because the fan is worn out and gets noisy sometimes. That's not going
to be fun with all those cables to unplug and plug.
 
First, a few days ago I got a great new video card for 3d games, and it
had disply problems. What a huge dissapointment. I tried everything and
it could not be fixed. I had to return it and tell them to ship me
another one. THEN, my freaking hard drive dies, taking some data with
it, so I go buy a new one. THEN, I had problems making it work because
of the 137gb problem. I tried different combinations of things and
finally found one that worked. I had to make the first partition less
than, not equal to 137gb. Otherwise it would configure them in a
weird, incorrect way that wouldn't boot. The floppies I used to boot
the computer to reinstall windows 2000 barely worked. The drive had
trouble reading them. My life was hanging by a thread. So finally win
2000 is up and running again. What a sweet sight that was. THEN I had
problems making my PVR work (a tv for my comptuer), but I got it
working. Will these harrowing experiences never end? For god's sake,
all I want to do is relax and enjoy my computer. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO
ASK???? I almost feel like crying. Oh yeah by the way I have access to
the full 300 gb of the hard drive now, so everything is finally OK. But
actually I'm still going to have to replace my power supply sometime
because the fan is worn out and gets noisy sometimes. That's not going
to be fun with all those cables to unplug and plug.
Click to expand...

Hehe..I know how you feel. All in the last month or so I had an ATI 9800pro
go bad on me (out of warranty), had to send in 7900GT for RMA due to
factory overclocked ram that couldn't do the speed they set it at, Samsung
DVD-RW had to go back for RMA as it would no longer read anything, had a
damaged area on Samsung 300g HDD so had to send that back for RMA too.
Ain't computers fun?!

p.s. and on top of all that I had to spend a few hours tracking down why
when I clicked on start in XP would my PC sometimes get a random crash
error. Tunred out to be a context right click menu item added by A-Squared
anti-trojan prog in conjunction with the Nvidia video drivers. More fun!
NOT!
:(
 
Previously GreatArtist said:
First, a few days ago I got a great new video card for 3d games, and it
had disply problems. What a huge dissapointment. I tried everything and
it could not be fixed. I had to return it and tell them to ship me
another one. THEN, my freaking hard drive dies, taking some data with
it, so I go buy a new one. THEN, I had problems making it work because
of the 137gb problem. I tried different combinations of things and
finally found one that worked. I had to make the first partition less
than, not equal to 137gb. Otherwise it would configure them in a
weird, incorrect way that wouldn't boot. The floppies I used to boot
the computer to reinstall windows 2000 barely worked. The drive had
trouble reading them. My life was hanging by a thread. So finally win
2000 is up and running again. What a sweet sight that was. THEN I had
problems making my PVR work (a tv for my comptuer), but I got it
working. Will these harrowing experiences never end? For god's sake,
all I want to do is relax and enjoy my computer. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO
ASK???? I almost feel like crying. Oh yeah by the way I have access to
the full 300 gb of the hard drive now, so everything is finally OK. But
actually I'm still going to have to replace my power supply sometime
because the fan is worn out and gets noisy sometimes. That's not going
to be fun with all those cables to unplug and plug.
Click to expand...

You are using a technology that is still experimental, but has
gone mainstream a few decades too early. Not even the OSes
are stable! So, sorry, it is indeed too much to ask. The fault
is of course with those that tell people that a) non-experts
can administrate computers without problem b) hardware is
reliable. They do this obviously in order to earn money selling
not really good and immature technology on a large scale...

Arno
 
GreatArtist said:
First, a few days ago I got a great new video card for 3d games, and it
had disply problems. What a huge dissapointment. I tried everything and
it could not be fixed. I had to return it and tell them to ship me
another one. THEN, my freaking hard drive dies, taking some data with
it, so I go buy a new one. THEN, I had problems making it work because
of the 137gb problem. I tried different combinations of things and
finally found one that worked. I had to make the first partition less
than, not equal to 137gb. Otherwise it would configure them in a
weird, incorrect way that wouldn't boot. The floppies I used to boot
the computer to reinstall windows 2000 barely worked. The drive had
trouble reading them. My life was hanging by a thread.
Click to expand...

Aren't computers fun? 8)

Well, they are, when they're working...
 
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