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DrEntropy

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By a Mack truck. Beaten severely about the brain by an Nvidia vid card driver and XP pro... What a pain inna neck!

"Legacy" hardware. bah!

In the end, ENTROPY WINS! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
heh, there's people that will swear up and down that nVidia cards are the best on the market. Unfortunately, I've experienced the opposite.

But then, I noticed you mentioned the word "legacy". What was it, a PCI card? Pre-TNT?
 
Nahh. AGP 8X Gforce thingie. XP decided to "keep" the older driver and all it did was scramble the display as soon as the WinXP splashscreen passed. Locked up tighter'n a ...a...

nevermind.

It locked up. Driver downloads, safe mode bootups, deleting of drivers, hunting in registry nooks-n-crannies...
I ~HATE~ the way Micro$oft buries that stuff... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wall.gif
whatsamatta wif havin' a simple xorg.conf file?!?!? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Well DR- I'm feeling yer pain as well today.

The AC power adapter for my 160 GB Iomega external
drive is broken. (two broken pins in the end thingy)

I store all my projects on that drive.

Can't seem to find the proper replacement power
supply. Blargh!!

d
 
I'm an Nvidia fan, but I'm not running anything more than 3 years old. I've been happy with Nvidia drivers. Typically they are rock solid for me, especially if I stay one generation behind. I don't have time to run brand new drivers and deal with any bugs that may come up.
 
DrEntropy said:
Nahh. AGP 8X Gforce thingie. XP decided to "keep" the older driver and all it did was scramble the display as soon as the WinXP splashscreen passed. Locked up tighter'n a ...a...

nevermind.

It locked up. Driver downloads, safe mode bootups, deleting of drivers, hunting in registry nooks-n-crannies...
I ~HATE~ the way Micro$oft buries that stuff... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wall.gif
whatsamatta wif havin' a simple xorg.conf file?!?!? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
Click to expand...

you can blame registry use of anything you install on that particular application/driver/what ever. The good thing about using the registry, end users are less likely to fubar things by messing around with it (most end users don't know about the registry and if they do they avoid it like the plague). The down side is if the software vendor isn't thorough with their installer/uninstaller software it can get pretty clogged and ... well... bleh.

I recently reverse engineered one of our own products because the producer/QA didn't require the developers to use our installer software. So the Developers used an *.msi installer. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/nonono.gif I will ~never~ use an *.msi installer after wading through the muck that thing put into the registry. ~Every~ and I mean EVERY file that the game installed was in the registry, but the game only needed ~ONE~ registry key to work. I let out a loud explicative when my tracking software reported 1000+ registry changes... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/pukeface.gif
 
Me, I'm a Mac/Unix guy. Never had much use for Windows unless forced.

Sorry to hear of your pain, though. Makes me glad I'm just a web app developer, and not a hardware guy. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
I'm "forced" by my client base. I sneak Linux servers in on 'em tho. That makes my life a bit easier. The servers are stable and the clients have NO idea how to do anything from a command prompt but shut-down or reboot.
...and that only from a user account. NO "SU" priveledges. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
WOOHOO!!!Sniped me bro's new Acer laptop... comin' to ya wireless from the front of the garage. About to reach inna GBL (Garage Beer Locker) an' haul out th' first CAB of th' day.

...now to plot a dual boot... mehheh... Fedora C6 oughta be able to use all th' horsepower this thing can muster with ease. 40G H/D, but I've an 80G sittin' idle...
 
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