Win '98, roused from its sleep, threw a bluescreen at the mortal that dared distrub its sleep, then returned to its eon-long slumber. And you thought Cthulhu was bad.
Yeah, I decided to try and wipe the installation and install '98. "It will boot faster", I thought. "Easier to do a splash bootup screen", I thought.
And it did, it just didnt do much else. 98 didnt have the video drive, so I figured it would be a quick case of installing the 98 drive off the mobo driver CD. Right? WRONG...
Installing the driver disk was made of fail, as 75% of the time I inserted the CD, it came up as a audio drive. Also, 50% of the time the drive bay closed it blue-screened. When I did get it in, the 98 drive failed to install. Copying the drivers across manually blue screened the sucker as well.
Back to XP i go...
(sidenote: [Speaking of cthulhu] I recently built a compy for a mate of mine who wanted a non-dell [shudder] PC. It was crawling with viruses and had oven cleaner sprayed all over it in a attempt to lube up a noisy GFX fan. Clearly there was dark forces at work here - this PC had to be sanctified before autopsy)
Credit? Aw, you do care!
ReplyDeleteI really wish you hadn't thrown in all the Cthulu references - it makes going down to the beach and finding a shore full of gigantic dead jellyfish so much more unnerving.