Okay folks, I'm about to do a major overhaul on my computer. I appear to have mucked up my operating system and caused some serious problems, so after burning about 30 gigabytes worth of stuff (songs and research) to CD last night I'm going to reformat and start over. Problem #1 is that I don't have the install disk for my mother board, but I've downloaded what I believe are all the right drivers to get the job done anyway. So if I'm gone for a couple days, it's because I screwed up that project royally and my frustration has probably sent me to the top of a tower with a high powered rifle. If all goes well, I'll be back in a few hours. Wish me luck.
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And of course, a DVD burner so you can archive your data in 6gb chunks.
Good luck!
Is that the water tower as in the film Targets, or the Texas University admin tower as in the Whitman nightmare?? Both of those are nearly 40 years ago, mmmmm
Best of luck on the reboots and overhaul!!!