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Re: I hate Windows
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:29 pm
by SOAPboy
Silicone_Milk wrote:Windows sucks ass. This is the THIRD time the thing crashes then gives me the black screen on startup with the options to boot in safe mode, safe mode with command prompt, safe mode with networking, last known good configuration, and to boot normally.
All options result in the breifest flash of a blue screen and a restart of the computer. I mean, seriously, wtf. Im so sick of windows.
And to make matters worse, my knoppix cd just snapped in half while I was walking up a hill with it in my pocket. And I didn't save the image file on my hard drive. So now Im redownloading it to retrieve all my damn map and mod files as well as my other programs then I''m probably going to have to do a whole damn reinstall of Windows XP. The only reason I keep using Windows is World of Warcraft and Adobe Photoshop. Otherwise I'd ditch it for some form of linux.
ANYWAYS... if you know a better solution than a complete reinstall of windows please tell. I'd rather really not have to deal with the installation process again :icon27:
i think it might have something to do with this shitty nvidia video card. It's been known to crash my computer while playing games before and the computer only started getting screwed up when I had the card in. I still blame windows for not being able to deal with the video card.
/rant end
Wow can be ran in linux.. Its ok, learn2linux
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:01 am
by Silicone_Milk
yea.. on wine
and from what I hear its rather unstable =(
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:08 am
by FragaGeddon
Silicone_Milk wrote:Damn, Oeloe. That's some good advice. I'll definately keep that in mind.
This is what I do with all my computers, and any that I fix for someone.
You can move over My Documents, Favorites, etc. folders by installing TweakUI and using the special folders menu or I just use
this reg file.
I also create a new .pst file on the d drive also for Outlook.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:23 pm
by Oeloe
^ You can also move the desktop forlder to a data partition that you change often. If you download lots of (big) files, it's best not to do store everything on the OS partition. I partitioned my disk like this:
C: XP+swapfile
D: Programs (that don't need to be reinstalled with an OS reinstall)
E: Games
D: Data (desktop folder, music, downloads, software/game files (mods, installation files etc.), cd images, etc.)
F: User files (important documents i don't want to be mixed with downloads and other stuff)
G: Backup (all drivers and other essential files for installation)
I've used this for years but most people can do with less though.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:57 pm
by FragaGeddon
I just create folders on my D drive.
I use to do the same thing as you, but I found it was a waste of hard drive space.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:15 pm
by Scourge
FragaGeddon wrote:I just create folders on my D drive.
I use to do the same thing as you, but I found it was a waste of hard drive space.
Same, all my downloads, media files, and all that go on my second drive and I do occassional backups as well.
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:22 am
by SOAPboy
Silicone_Milk wrote:yea.. on wine
and from what I hear its rather unstable =(
Search around the official WoW forums.. guys are running it just fine..
I still use windows tho, because my machine is stable and i dont blame windows for it crashing
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:31 am
by ilumos
Oeloe wrote:Never put your data on the same partition as your OS. Make a separate partition for data (your maps, mods, documents, images etc.) so that when you need to format, only the OS partition has to be formatted.
:icon14: Always worked for me.
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:42 am
by Oeloe
FragaGeddon wrote:I just create folders on my D drive.
I use to do the same thing as you, but I found it was a waste of hard drive space.
Not if you plan the sizes of the partitions well. I'm not a mass downloader anyway, so I won't fill up my 160 GB disk anytime soon. I like the fact that most on most my partitions with important data, i can keep track of all the changes easily because i don't add/remove things every day.
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:59 am
by Silicone_Milk
SOAPboy wrote:Silicone_Milk wrote:yea.. on wine
and from what I hear its rather unstable =(
Search around the official WoW forums.. guys are running it just fine..
I still use windows tho, because my machine is stable and i dont blame windows for it crashing
Alright Ill go c heck it out.
It'd be a different story if this was the only machine Ive had crash while running windows.
I can name at least 6 different machines that have crashed while using windows. Versions of Windows: 98, ME, XP Home, XP Pro, 2000.
EDIT: oh and btw technically it was windows fault that my machine crashed. It has a corrupted ntdll.dll file that needed to be replaced
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:35 pm
by Oeloe
Silicone_Milk wrote:It has a corrupted ntdll.dll file that needed to be replaced
Could still have been a hardware error that corrupted that file on your disk (timing error in the communication between chipset and hdd). HDD corruption isn't uncommon among overclockers.
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:06 pm
by Underpants?
I just realized what axbaby brings to the forum: cheerfulness.
:tree: :flower: :birdssinging:
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:26 pm
by Silicone_Milk
Oeloe wrote:Silicone_Milk wrote:It has a corrupted ntdll.dll file that needed to be replaced
Could still have been a hardware error that corrupted that file on your disk (timing error in the communication between chipset and hdd). HDD corruption isn't uncommon among overclockers.
but... I dont overclock my computer. heh =)
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:59 pm
by axbaby
Underpants? wrote:I just realized what axbaby brings to the forum: cheerfulness.
:tree: :flower: :birdssinging:
stfu nerd
:icon26:
there has to be a reason why it crashed so hard windows could not recover itself and that problem will not go away unless you fix the cause not the damage.
gah i sound like a doctor ..now cough for me baby
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