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Originally posted by sycamore
So...what did you other folks do? It had to be better than mine. 
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You would think. Let's recap.
My ever-faithful 300 Mhz, 6 Gb companion of five years was besought by demons TWO DAYS after school let out. On my father's advice, I formatted the hard drive. Here's a lesson for the new members: if your father saw Oswald get shot live, don't listen to him for computer advice. He doesn't have the necessary background.
Continuing that theme, my father's burned copy of 98 2E was piss-poor and didn't have the necessary audio and video drivers on it. So, like a goon, I had to trot the
Falcon (my comp's nickname. Geeks that aren't pagan Trekkies will understand) over to Best Buy and
pay them to find and install the correct drivers.
In the course of this degrading act, I asked them to take a look at the modem. I had tried to reinstall Earthlink beforehand, but it wouldn't take. I prayed that it was a conflict with the display settings (Pop's disc's driver was the default, screen frozen at 640x480 w/ 16 colors), and that after curing said screen problems, could they make sure the modem was alright.
If you think the modem was fine, raise your hand. Okay,
you haven't been paying attention.
The end result, my computer will run programs, but I have no internet access. I am talking to you through (sigh) the local library, as school just started, and naturally, the school's network is shot. (37% read errors, last my teacher checked)
It continues on from there into non-tech parts of life, but that would make the new members suicidal, and I don't need that.
Oh yeah, almost forgot. Hi Syc. Long time, no see.
~Mike