Will check that out, too, then. It was last used around November.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Check your device manager for yellow triangles. Then check your drivers. You can get programs to check all the drivers for currency.FBM wrote:Will try it again a bit earlier in the process tomorrow, then. Gracias.I've got Windows 7 disks, but the fracking CD/DVD player doesn't work.
Genuine POS. I'm thinking about taking a handful of neodymium magnets to the hard drive and pleading ignorance so they'll just replace the whole thing.
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Did you make the USB bootable or did you just dump the ISO on there?
Use this:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Use this:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
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Azathoth wrote:Did you make the USB bootable or did you just dump the ISO on there?
Use this:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Fuck. The latter. 
I knew I forgot to do something. I was trying to hustle it through before class at that point. Nevertheless, I did get a lot of shit straightened out today, so will be able to make a better go of it tomorrow. Thanks for your help, man."A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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SHUSH! Not so loud, man!FBM wrote: Thanks for your help, man.
He'll lose his IT job if somebody finds out he's been helpful anywhere. 
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YWFBM wrote:Azathoth wrote:Did you make the USB bootable or did you just dump the ISO on there?
Use this:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Common mistake that just popped into my head because I have done it too.Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
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I'm not alone!! 
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Man, just when you think you've got it all figured out, they go and change everything on you.
It's been 3-4 years since I built a computer, back in the core 2 duo days. I figure, simple, pick a motherboard, pick a cpu, mix and stir gently.
So I slap the cpu on the motherboard, check for POST, slap both inside a case and move on to other things.
I start to nail down some finer grained details, and there's all this new shit and changed crap that I didn't even realize.
New USB stuff, new motherboard headers — and no IDE controller! I'm looking inside the case and going, "Shit. There's no IDE controller. Glad I ordered that new sata DVD burner now! Zoot alors!"
Man, can't an old girl rest on her laurels just a little while?
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I was into cryptography and wireless networking for a while. It just changes too quick. I gave up.
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I just remembered the tech updated my bios when the old harddrive killed my system.
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