{"id":66,"date":"2003-02-21T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2003-02-21T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-07-07T12:32:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:32:44","slug":"the-final-whine-fat-chance-but-lets-hope-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2003\/the-final-whine-fat-chance-but-lets-hope-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft ruins another day (or two)…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am trying to adopt a “No Whining” philosophy, especially at work, where there are plenty of opportunities. With that in mind, I need to purge before going into full no-whine mode. I spent the last two days as follows…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  • Add new soundcard\n<\/li>\n
  • No XP driver found\n<\/li>\n
  • Proceed to Windows Update\n<\/li>\n
  • Windows Update adds ten trillion patches\n<\/li>\n
  • Windows Update reboots\n<\/li>\n
  • OS becomes unbootable, hard resetting shortly after selecting the OS\n<\/li>\n
  • One by one, remove all cards and peripherals, no luck…\n<\/li>\n
  • Attempt to repair Windows XP, find no obvious choices when booting from CD\n<\/li>\n
  • Give up, and attempt to completely reinstall Windows XP\n<\/li>\n
  • Oh THERE is the repair option, after saying I want a clean install!\n<\/li>\n
  • Repair Windows XP (takes about an hour)\n<\/li>\n
  • Re-enter activation code\n<\/li>\n
  • After login, XP requires online activation with a “Do you want to activate now?” prompt\n<\/li>\n
  • Select Yes, then the activation app (msoobe.exe) crashes, placing me back at the login prompt\n<\/li>\n
  • Try every login available on the computer, all end with the msoobe.exe crash\n<\/li>\n
  • Re-add all cards, repair Windows XP again, in the hope that having a network card will prevent the crash\n<\/li>\n
  • When repairing, asks for Domain SysAdmin login to “add me to the domain” (I am already ON the domain!)\n<\/li>\n
  • Try my domain login, XP hangs\n<\/li>\n
  • Reboot, rerun repair installation, get back to SysAdmin login\n<\/li>\n
  • Find a SysAdmin, he enters the password, XP hangs\n<\/li>\n
  • Reboot, rerun repair installation, bypass domain login\n<\/li>\n
  • Windows XP gets activated and loads successfully\n<\/li>\n
  • Go back to Windows Update (I am a glutton for punishment, and I just HAD to get that sound card working!)\n<\/li>\n
  • Attempted to update all “critical” updates\n<\/li>\n
  • Reboot into Windows\n<\/li>\n
  • Attempt to return to Windows Update to update drivers\n<\/li>\n
  • IE crashes, blue screen of death\n<\/li>\n
  • Reboot into Windows\n<\/li>\n
  • Attempt to return to Windows Update, IE is doggin’, find yet ANOTHER critical update for IE that fixes the bug I just introduced when installing the previous set of critical updates\n<\/li>\n
  • Several more Windows Update sessions later, and I still don’t have a working sound card driver, and now IE blue-screens every couple of hours…\n

    That’s it! I’m purged! Upwards and onwards!<\/li>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-14","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2002\/catch-the-spreading-virus\/","url_meta":{"origin":66,"position":0},"title":"Mah new computer!!!!!!","author":"m","date":"September 19, 2002","format":false,"excerpt":"coreyd writes... \"guess what? this is the Mikes nephew, who goes by corey d. and he just got his new computer!! yay. hooray for him.(isnt talking in 3rd person fun?) anyways. it cost just under 700 bucks. want the specs? o so you dont, well you will get them anyway.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All My Rowdy Friends"","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":558,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2009\/a-paxing-we-will-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":66,"position":1},"title":"A-PAXing we will go…","author":"m","date":"September 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"PAX 2009 flew by like a sonic jet. 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