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dolariI wasn't gonna post work eralted stuff, but this is too good. I spent 15 minutes on the phone, getting a guy to plug his computer into a wall outlet. First we spent WAY too much time IDENTIFYING the which cord was the computer cord...then time trying to plug it in...then time identifying that he plugged his MONITOR into the wall plug (You can call your monitor a Black Box if you want to, and you can call your computer a Black Box if you want to...please do not call them BOTH Black Boxes in the same call.
Anyways, I had some tech troubles of my own. I finally got XP yesterday, based on how smooth and flawless it seems to be at work. And I forgot the cardinal rule of Windows: Your first installation is a test run - it will NOT WORK RIGHT. And so is your second, and possibly third installtion. It's called Windows XP because that's the face you make when you install it the third time.
So, out of th ebox, I install it, and it seems to work fine, installed in 15 minutes (wow) and it's up. Coool. So I pop in my first updated driver (Never use the Microsoft native drivers) and BOOM - BSoD, 0x0000000A IRQL_LESS_NOT_EQUAL error...the most horrifying error know to techs because we have no idea what it means.
Basically, this boils down to: Well, it could be your driver...or it could be your hardware...or maybe the program you were trying to run. Could be anything. We hate this error. Usually we get it when you're trying to install a Windows 98 program on XP, and XP just won't have it. So I ended up going into safemode, running the installation program there, and hoping it would work when I got back. Thankfully, it did.
So I slowly put up drivers and utilities for my hardware, and it's slow going, and in somecases scary going (You're telling me I have to use the Windows 3.11 program to use my scanner is XP?). I finally got everything up and running like gangbusters, except for two things:
My DVD player needs specific XP installation files to run. No biggie. 2MB download. My TV card lost it's horizontal hold. No problem...go to the site...3 files...1 is 25 MB, 2 is 2MB and 3 is 17MB. On a 56k. Woah. So I decide to get Service Pack 1, first. 1.5 MB download, which baloons in to a 30MB download. 74MB over all. So I set it up to run overnight.
I wake up 3 hours later (these stupid pills make me wake up every two or so hours for a restroom trip) only to find out that XP disconnected my computer because it was idle for too long (5 minutes)...so three hours wasted. I reset the download and go back to bed, turning off the shutoff.
I wake up a few hours later to find out both the downloads have crashed, and Getright is saying the files no longer exist OR the site. I can only download in what seems to be 2 minute increments.
With 74MB to go, it's just too much to handle, not to mention I screwed up my start menu. So, Test Run #1 failed due to Outside Error. Test Run #2 failed due to USer Error. Test Run #3 should be just fine, unless it decides to ram into a mine or something.
Anyways, I had some tech troubles of my own. I finally got XP yesterday, based on how smooth and flawless it seems to be at work. And I forgot the cardinal rule of Windows: Your first installation is a test run - it will NOT WORK RIGHT. And so is your second, and possibly third installtion. It's called Windows XP because that's the face you make when you install it the third time.
So, out of th ebox, I install it, and it seems to work fine, installed in 15 minutes (wow) and it's up. Coool. So I pop in my first updated driver (Never use the Microsoft native drivers) and BOOM - BSoD, 0x0000000A IRQL_LESS_NOT_EQUAL error...the most horrifying error know to techs because we have no idea what it means.
0x0000000A: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
(Click to consult the online Win XP Resource Kit article, or see Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit, p. 1539.)
Typically due to a bad driver, or faulty or incompatible hardware or software. Use the General Troubleshooting of STOP Messages checklist above. Technically, this error condition means that a kernel-mode process or driver tried to access a memory location to which it did not have permission, or at a kernel Interrupt ReQuest Level (IRQL) that was too high. (A kernel-mode process can access only other processes that have an IRQL lower than, or equal to, its own.)
Basically, this boils down to: Well, it could be your driver...or it could be your hardware...or maybe the program you were trying to run. Could be anything. We hate this error. Usually we get it when you're trying to install a Windows 98 program on XP, and XP just won't have it. So I ended up going into safemode, running the installation program there, and hoping it would work when I got back. Thankfully, it did.
So I slowly put up drivers and utilities for my hardware, and it's slow going, and in somecases scary going (You're telling me I have to use the Windows 3.11 program to use my scanner is XP?). I finally got everything up and running like gangbusters, except for two things:
My DVD player needs specific XP installation files to run. No biggie. 2MB download. My TV card lost it's horizontal hold. No problem...go to the site...3 files...1 is 25 MB, 2 is 2MB and 3 is 17MB. On a 56k. Woah. So I decide to get Service Pack 1, first. 1.5 MB download, which baloons in to a 30MB download. 74MB over all. So I set it up to run overnight.
I wake up 3 hours later (these stupid pills make me wake up every two or so hours for a restroom trip) only to find out that XP disconnected my computer because it was idle for too long (5 minutes)...so three hours wasted. I reset the download and go back to bed, turning off the shutoff.
I wake up a few hours later to find out both the downloads have crashed, and Getright is saying the files no longer exist OR the site. I can only download in what seems to be 2 minute increments.
With 74MB to go, it's just too much to handle, not to mention I screwed up my start menu. So, Test Run #1 failed due to Outside Error. Test Run #2 failed due to USer Error. Test Run #3 should be just fine, unless it decides to ram into a mine or something.
