See you on the other side
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007I managed to switch my motherboard _and_ my video card the other day, and keep the same installation of Windows going. I had to do a repair install, which was very tricky, using an original XP disk with an SP2 installation. So I went from SP2 back to vanilla XP with the repair install, installed drivers for absolutely everything, upgraded back up to SP2, installed DirectX 9, and then crashed every 30 seconds until I disabled most of AGP. So that was enough to keep programming (and kick myself for swapping motherboards). But now it crashes every time I try to do something fancy, like opening Azureus, WinAMP, or any other program that uses sound or tries to initialise DirectX.
And the entire reason for the upgrade was to get DX9 so I can check out XNA.
Well I’ve finished my current project for now, made my backups, and am about to reformat. I may even make a partition and install Linux. See you on the other side. If I don’t come back, bury me with my guitars.