I had the worst computer night I've had in years

[DS1]

The good news is, obviously, that I'm running again. Now I'm on 64-bit Vista, on a 64-bit processor, and it's okay. Late last night my system went unstable, started rebooting myself. I tried all the usual techie tricks, and then some. No luck. Because I'd had a few beers, I called a cab, at 3 in the morning, to take me to my office a few miles down the road to pick up Vista Ultimate.

The cabby even tried one of those cabbie tricks where he takes a right, then left, then left, then right again instead of simply going straight. What a douchebag, like I'm not watching. *adds douchebag to Firefox's spellchecker* I was going to give him a nice tip anyway.

I get home, XP decides to recover itself, long enough for me to tell my programming pimp in Hong Kong that I'm back online and will get started up again. BAM. System freezes, reboots, then dies 5 seconds into Windows "starting up". The blue screen is so fast, you can't read but 2 or 3 words. I get my camera, and put it on multi mode and start shooting just before it normally flashes the BSOD.


Anyway, I'm now running Vista, which I'll have to buy now, even though I wanted to keep Vista at work, and XP at home and not mentally link the two. The Soundblaster Live card I have is apparently too outdated for Creative Labs to update, so it's awful quiet in here.

Still, I had the most amazing dish of garlic shrimp and cod cheeks over a homemade bowl of fettuccine and sauce last night. Heavenly. Alec Maxon is the best cook within 50 miles. Of this I have little doubt.

[LaurenG]

1. That's really kind of scary. I mean if computers can do that to an expert

what kind of stuff can they do to us novices. Seriously though what caused it? Do you think it's whatever you did to it last week?

I ask because my sister has XP media center,and it just came back from the computer hospital a week or two ago. She runs some pretty intense (memory wise) programs but really it just seems the OS is totally unstable even though they completely reinstalled it. :shrug:

Sorry about your troubles though, btw how much to you like vista?

[DS1]

3. There was a non-OS drive that had been worrying me

but it's not the drive I had XP on. Still, even unplugging everything but the one drive I did want to work didn't help. I'm now running on the drive which was reporting a fail status, which is just lovely, but I'm wondering if the wrong drive was being reported as bad. Anyway, I've still got all my files, but all my programs need to be re-downloaded and installed.

This is not the way I wanted to eventually move to Vista, but here I am.

I don't mind Vista once you turn off the nanny crap, I do thoroughly dislike the folder navigation scheme. In fact, I fucking hate it, and want to stab and bleed out the developers behind it. Goddamn idiots.


Mah jong tiles is quite nice, however.

[Deja Q]

2. 64-bit OSes running 32-bit apps is a waste of time.

The performance hit is awful.

and when I fiddled with my 64-bit blunder, it was Linux. SuSE Linux 10.2. With 32-bit apps, including virtualization software... (64-bit version running a 32-bit OS)

Moving back to a whole 32-bit system, performance went up.

For some situations, 64-bit is better. But for 64-bit, it has to be all or nothing. There is no hybrid solution that works wonders.

[DS1]

4. I've yet to see a difference

and linux to M% is apples to oranges.

[sakabatou]

5. That's not the worst

The worst I had was a Windows Me model model with the OS as a TRIAL. A FUCKING TRIAL!

[NoPasaran]

8. That was no trial

That was a lynching.

[no name no slogan]

6. You shoulda got a Mac

:hide:

[DS1]

7. the thought crossed my mind

but they're made of the same hardware, and just as likely to break

[GCP]

9. Well you know what we think of Windows

And I know what you think of Macs, but we've never had a single issue with our machines after switching to Apple. Windows runs more stably on a Mac using Parallels than it did on a PC for us.
Come over to the light, DS1. :)

[SOteric]

10. D'oh!

The Evil Empire strikes again.

[DS1]

11. .

wrong placo, friendo