Another Stunning Day! - Computer woes (Geeky responses and commisserations welcome)

All I wanted was to play a few older games on the break and have my blog and such. I had intentions of doing a project for a friend, but the universe conspired against me. Last week , I spent all day Monday and all day Wednesday on the phone with the manufacturer, trying to squeak out a little more performance from the integrated graphics card. The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) was making game play a misery. Now, I wasn't trying to play anything extravagant like BioShock or any one of last year's games. I was playing a game that is almost ten years old. I have a fairly new computer, two years old, hyper-threaded and Pentium 4 and plenty of RAM And HD space. I even have a spare 360 Gig external drive for keeping my "C" drive clutter free.
After finally giving in and purchasing a new Nvidia Graphics card,the install did not go smoothly, other critters came out of gremlin-ville and programs that have always worked are now in a bad mood.
Spent all of Thursday in phone conference with new tech support person. we did a soft reinstall of Windows to clear out the bugs, but that took hours. Still , I spent five hours hand transferring files to the external drive just to make sure that if calamity struck, I'd have a way to re-start all of that hard work I have done over the last several years.
So Now I have a computer that doesn't recognize half of the externals and will not play nice with itself! Along the way, I discovered that my printer is on the fritz, too. I love this printer! I don't want a new fangled version.I don't need a two- inch view of what I'm printing. I just need a reliable printer scanner.
Whaah whaah whaah!

Posted: 12:55 PM, Monday, January 7, 2008

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