Tearing my hair out here...

I am going to strangle a couple softwhere developers before too much longer. Anyone wanna help?

The first on my list is AMD. Now AMD makes some good stuff - like my cpu and graphics chip, and I've heard from more than a few people that their stuff is better than NVidia's. They also made the really nice graphics card I bought for my dad's desktop computer. Well, here in the past few days, he's been having a problem with a blurry screen. I consulted with a friend of mine who knows a bit more about comps than I do, and she suggested that it could be the graphics card or the monitor. Well the card was $80 and the monitor was $200, so I opted to go the path of least resistance and cheeck for a new graphics driver, hoping that the blurriness was an odd manifestation of a screwed up driver. Well I found it, and thus a whole comedey of errors began.

The first download attempt froze at 98%.

The second download attempt succeeded, but the installation froze towards the end.

The third download attempt again froze at 98%.

The fourth download attempt succeeded, and the installation went through, but then windows popped up saying that there was no driver installed or the driver wasn't functioning.

I rolled back to the old driver and tried again. I figured that it had been a bad installer or something of that nature and redownloaded. The download worked, the installation went through, but again I got the message saying that there was no driver. To top it off, the computer does not acknowledge the newer driver, so I can't roll back to the older driver. To make matters even more exciting, DirectX 11 corrupted, and I can't find it to reinstall it. The latest version I can find is 9. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do about this mess. He is a gamer, so he needs the drivver and DirectX.

The next software developer on my shit list is Microsoft. Now I was impressed by Windows 7 (Had it for a year, and it's just now starting to destablize a bit. Vista and XP on the other hand were unstable from the get go.) I've been having stability probs with two programs: Microsoft Works and IE 8. Microsft Works freezes and tries to crash everytime I save or open a document, though so far it hasn't actually crashed yet. IE just likes to crash alot, period. So I downloaded Firefox to run while I deinstalled and reinstalled IE, and guess what, you can't deinstall it! Grrrrr...! Sadly, and complete reinstall is the only way that I can't really think of that is guaranteed to fix it.

Now Microsoft Works is a big thing for me, because I use it so much. It's my prefered word processor. I went looking for it - before I deinstalled it, thank Hide - and and it's not available as a free download anymore. If I want it, I have to cough up $35 for it. I wasn't going to - until I found out that after this year, Microsoft will be fazing out Works and replacing it with Office Word, which I have tried before and positively hate. So maybe I will go out and get it. Buy it on disk, that way I have a hard copy that will work (hopefully) with the next OS or two that Microsoft puts out. But then again, since there are programs made for Vista that won't work with 7, maybe I should just got get Open Office, a free word processor available on the internet.

Tearing my hair out here...

I am going to strangle a couple softwhere developers before too much longer. Anyone wanna help?

The first on my list is AMD. Now AMD makes some good stuff - like my cpu and graphics chip, and I've heard from more than a few people that their stuff is better than NVidia's. They also made the really nice graphics card I bought for my dad's desktop computer. Well, here in the past few days, he's been having a problem with a blurry screen. I consulted with a friend of mine who knows a bit more about comps than I do, and she suggested that it could be the graphics card or the monitor. Well the card was $80 and the monitor was $200, so I opted to go the path of least resistance and cheeck for a new graphics driver, hoping that the blurriness was an odd manifestation of a screwed up driver. Well I found it, and thus a whole comedey of errors began.

The first download attempt froze at 98%.

The second download attempt succeeded, but the installation froze towards the end.

The third download attempt again froze at 98%.

The fourth download attempt succeeded, and the installation went through, but then windows popped up saying that there was no driver installed or the driver wasn't functioning.

I rolled back to the old driver and tried again. I figured that it had been a bad installer or something of that nature and redownloaded. The download worked, the installation went through, but again I got the message saying that there was no driver. To top it off, the computer does not acknowledge the newer driver, so I can't roll back to the older driver. To make matters even more exciting, DirectX 11 corrupted, and I can't find it to reinstall it. The latest version I can find is 9. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do about this mess. He is a gamer, so he needs the drivver and DirectX.

The next software developer on my shit list is Microsoft. Now I was impressed by Windows 7 (Had it for a year, and it's just now starting to destablize a bit. Vista and XP on the other hand were unstable from the get go.) I've been having stability probs with two programs: Microsoft Works and IE 8. Microsft Works freezes and tries to crash everytime I save or open a document, though so far it hasn't actually crashed yet. IE just likes to crash alot, period. So I downloaded Firefox to run while I deinstalled and reinstalled IE, and guess what, you can't deinstall it! Grrrrr...! Sadly, and complete reinstall is the only way that I can't really think of that is guaranteed to fix it.

Now Microsoft Works is a big thing for me, because I use it so much. It's my prefered word processor. I went looking for it - before I deinstalled it, thank Hide - and and it's not available as a free download anymore. If I want it, I have to cough up $35 for it. I wasn't going to - until I found out that after this year, Microsoft will be fazing out Works and replacing it with Office Word, which I have tried before and positively hate. So maybe I will go out and get it. Buy it on disk, that way I have a hard copy that will work (hopefully) with the next OS or two that Microsoft puts out. But then again, since there are programs made for Vista that won't work with 7, maybe I should just got get Open Office, a free word processor available on the internet.