Well it's been awhile since I've blogged last. I've run into some computer problems in the past week that have been driving me crazy. On Sunday night while installing a wireless card in my computer some random driver hosed the thing up pretty bad. The solution to this problem was suprisingly, uninstalling the graphics card by reverting the the default drivers. Then last night (Wednesday) I had a similar problem, computer starts up, screen goes black after Windows XP screen. I found that uninstalling the graphics card once again fixed my computer. I'm failing to see why my graphics card is screwing things up (specifically the drivers to it) I have downloaded the lastest and greatest drivers from ATI and before all of this happened, I had an older set of drivers from them. I'm thinking that from now on, I'm just going to use the crappy Windows XP drivers and see if I have any problems.
A better solution to all of this would be a new computer. Mine is 6 years old. There was a time when I didn't mind using my computer and only running 2-3 programs at a time at a slow speed but now having used super fast computers at work, it makes it difficult to come home and have patience on my free time. My computer had no trouble running programs made in 2001 but with all the bloatware comming out these days, it just doesn't have the power to do it. I don't really care so much about most of the hardware on my computer. Really its the 40 & 120GB hardrives that I have that are important to me. They comprise of random junk I've collected since the dawn of my computer usage (dating back to 1995) Most of the stuff is from 2001 and newer but regardless, there are sedamental things on my computer that I would hate to loose should my entire system crash.
I am also thinking that it is much easier (and less stressful) to copy data to a new computer rather than trying to recover date from a broken computer. I can picture the two scenarios and gracefully copying stuff to a new computer care free sounds like a better plan than painfully using linux to extract things from an old hardrive. Well I've gone on long enough here, hopefully my computer lasts long enough for me to finish this blo.......