I Hate Computers
Thursday, July 14, 2005
My laptop is a major pain in my arse lately, and I am not talking in that fun, makes you play with toys, kind of way.
The problem originally - when I try to play Knights of the Old Republic II (KOTOR2) the game freezes up immediately after the intro movie. So I re-installed the game, and the problem happened again. Turns out I don't meet the specs for the game. But wait the spec it wants is a 1GHZ processor, and mine is supposed to run at 2.2GHZ. Download a clocking software to find out that while my FSB is set ok, my multiplier is set at 4. No wonder my computer is only putting out 800MHZ in processing speed.
I call tech support, nice guy helps me with some upgrades to my system, and it still doesn't work. However with PRIDE, the 4th, lots of family time, lots of stuff that has to happen right after work, etc... I don't get to call the guy back for a couple weeks.
Called him 3 days ago. More upgrades that don't fix the problem.
Called him 2 days ago. Still more upgrades. A memory test that renders my computer completely useless for an evening, and one more re-install of the game. No breakthroughs.
Last night. Download a new clocking program / system performance analyzer and find out that the CPU is still only getting a multiplier of 4x and thus only running at around 800MHz. Get told by tech support to do a re-format of the system. (Good thing I had nothing better to do than spend the rest of my night backing up my system and downloading drivers).
As it stands now, I am going to have to call for a wireless driver so we can re-install all the driver updates that are supposed to fix this problem but have not to date. When (notice I did not say IF) that doesn't work, I get to ship my computer off cus they think it is a problem with.. maybe the motherboard.
Great.
Bitches better keep it long enough to upgrade everything to XP 64 and 64bit drivers!
posted by ZEUS @ 8:56 AM,
