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acroyearI don't profane my subject line often, so if I do, there's only one reason: Microsoft.
My old dvd-writer seemed to be having problems and was causing my box to utterly reboot as soon as a disc was inserted. assuming it was the drive (and not the power-supply - I haven't ruled that out), I bought an upgrade, only it meant my drive went from an IDE to a SATA.
Microsoft Windows, in its infinite wisdom, decided this was a "significant hardware change" and forced me to reactivate.
It then utterly failed on me in actually giving me the proper numbers I needed to give to the telephone people for this thing to work.
This, of course, took 3 tries of getting to someone able to actually do anything about it.
An hour on there, trying to finish getting the system to take the driver for the new dvd-rw and then letting him go through a few hoops and bam, I have a license again.
Only it's different enough that it's thrown AVG-Free off (and they don't seem to be in the mood, online-wise, to be giving away AVG-free licenses anymore).
As I said, I've not actually stuck a disc in there to see if its a power problem and not a drive problem. Hopefully not, 'cause the store just closed and that means I'm w/out a dvd-writer for another day (I won't say the money on the dvd-drive i got was wasted 'cause i do have a spare enclosure so the old one can go to work, where that dell p.o.s. won't play dvds or dvd-roms worth a shit).
update: drive seems fine now so i'm good to go...to the pub...
My old dvd-writer seemed to be having problems and was causing my box to utterly reboot as soon as a disc was inserted. assuming it was the drive (and not the power-supply - I haven't ruled that out), I bought an upgrade, only it meant my drive went from an IDE to a SATA.
Microsoft Windows, in its infinite wisdom, decided this was a "significant hardware change" and forced me to reactivate.
It then utterly failed on me in actually giving me the proper numbers I needed to give to the telephone people for this thing to work.
This, of course, took 3 tries of getting to someone able to actually do anything about it.
An hour on there, trying to finish getting the system to take the driver for the new dvd-rw and then letting him go through a few hoops and bam, I have a license again.
Only it's different enough that it's thrown AVG-Free off (and they don't seem to be in the mood, online-wise, to be giving away AVG-free licenses anymore).
As I said, I've not actually stuck a disc in there to see if its a power problem and not a drive problem. Hopefully not, 'cause the store just closed and that means I'm w/out a dvd-writer for another day (I won't say the money on the dvd-drive i got was wasted 'cause i do have a spare enclosure so the old one can go to work, where that dell p.o.s. won't play dvds or dvd-roms worth a shit).
update: drive seems fine now so i'm good to go...to the pub...
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Date: 2008-06-10 08:02 pm (UTC)Hence, why all the pirated version out there are the corporate editions.