Stupid Computer!

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Friday.

I get my brand new ASUS A7M266 DDR board in the mail. 512MB of PC2100 DDR (micron), and an Athlon 1.4 GHz processor. I also bought a Thermaltake Chrome Orb cpu fan, and a new power supply.

Well, my harddrive got messed up, so I went and got another. (Was going to do this anyways.)

So I have a bunch of new stuff, and I go to install everything.

Clean install of Win98. I had all the updates for the 761 chipset, and the AMD drivers. I get those in there. It took about 6 hours of straight work to get the thing to boot, and install everythign properly. (Format on a 60 GB harddisk is not fun.)

I get all that working. I install my GeForce 3 (the reason that I bought a new MB and processor.) It craps out...several times. Finally I get it going.

I go to install T2.

You think the things before were rough (BTW, this is at around 2 or 3 in the morning Saturday), well T2 installs just fine. I go to run the DirectX update, and it craps out. So my DirectX install is messed up.

I finally get the thing to work right and update correctly.

I update T2. The updater updates itself just fine. I update the game...and WHAM!

It halts to a screeching stop at the part where it checks the textures.vl2 file. (First patch mind you.)

So I do a series of uninstall/deletions and reinstallations. To no success. It's still messed up.

I can install and play other games. (Sacrafice, Age of Empires II), but I can only play them for awhile...before guess what?

The processor and motherboard overheat! ARGH!!!

So...

I did several things. I got a friend that works at MS to get me a copy of Win2k at the employee discount.

I bought the beginnings of a new cooling system. More on that, after I install it.


After all this, I don't know how people put up with AMD systems.



Oh and the harddrive getting messed up was caused by what appeared to be a momentary brownout.
I hope that there are no more of those.