From: Bert Haskins (bhaskins_at_triton.net)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 11:21:18 EDT
Advance warning!: this is a rant.
I get sucked into wasting lots and lots and lots of time helping many students and
friends fix windows problems.
IMHO Plug and pray is about as intelligent as a very sick earthworm.
I've seen cases where a "new" device is only discovered after five or so reboots.
I also been away from home and had bad dreams from Steve and Bill kick off
a plug and play cycle and insist that I load my win 95, 98, etc cdrom (which was at
home).
I've also had it install as many as seven com1, five lpt ports and six "unknown
devices".
"unknown device"....even a moron whould have to ask "if it doesn't know what it is,
how can it install it?"
My current record is 27 consecutive restarts during one setup.
If they had to create this mess that at least they should have given us
some way to override it.
And of course, all of this will be fixed in the next version.
When you get POed enough at this, you install Linux and be done with this ~!@#!!.
BTW I own $lush stock
Erich Knobil wrote:
> Strange. I plugged in power, network, and phone line, powered up, and tried to
> dial up my ISP. I got a 666 error message. Theological issues aside, I checked
> the modem and it turned up missing, as did the network adapter. Shutting down
> and trying again didn't help (OK, OK, so I'm a software guy).
>
> I tried the Add New Hardware Wizard, but it didn't detect anything. I changed
> the BIOS settings to do a diagnositic boot, saved and exited, and all is now
> fine. I'm clueless as to what happened.
>
> Is this the sign of some problem I should check out further, or should I just
> ignore it and enjoy the fact that it's working again?
>
> TIA for any light you can shed on this subject.
>
> -- Erich
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