Fuckin Windows XP - GoFuckYourself.com

CrystaliZed · 03-14-2007, 03:50 PM

I've been gone for awhile... why?

Because the wonderful company of T-Mo
told me to do an upgrade to my Blackberry
and it's desktop software from their website.

And ya know what happened?!...
Both my PC and BB CRASHED!!!

I tried callin Sony and they evidentally
don't believe in HIRING ENGLISH SPEAKING
CS REPS!!! So giving up on support options,
I take on the project myself...

I've been spending the past few days
rebuilding my PC and my BB. T-Mo was willing
to send me a new BB, but didn't wanna
'fess up to the corrupt download on their site.
Needless to say... I only do downloads
from Blackberry's site now.

My PC was a royal pain in the ass. I've
had my Sony VAIO for about 4 & 1/2 yrs now,
with no problems what-so-ever, so this was a
1st. Thanks to Audit (John)... I was able to get a
copy of XP and other software, since a lot
of my shit's in storage. I had to do a complete
overhaul of my C: drive and to make matters
worse... the damn thing only gets 98% done
and then I get an "ERROR UNKNOWN - Recovery Failed!"
WTF?! So I'm sitting there with no OS... NOTHING.
Luckly in Safe mode, before all this bullshit, I was
able to back up 90% of my shit.
So sitting there, I decide to put the copy of XP
I had, back in to see if it would boot.
And what-the-fuck do ya know?!... it LOADS!!!
After 2 days of bullshit, it finally gives in and works! LOL!
So here I am getting all my shit updated with IE,
Windows, Virus and Spyware, etc... Goddamn,
what a fuckin project... haha...
Anyway, just thought I'd rant...

Moral of the story: PC's are shit... back up your files!

woj · 03-14-2007, 04:04 PM

too long to read, but either way...

congrats to all the winners

TigerDragon · 03-14-2007, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woj

too long to read, but either way...

congrats to all the winners

CrystaliZed · 03-14-2007, 04:16 PM

Alright... EDITED VERSION

Because of a shitty blackberry upgrade T-Mo told me to
download on their website both my PC and BB crashed.
Spent 2 days rebuilding and trying to restore my PC and
everything that could go wrong in the process, did.

There... that better?! haha!

stickyfingerz · 03-14-2007, 04:18 PM

I sent you an email the other day to your blackberry email need a quote on doing 842 paysites @ 3300.00 per site, did you get it?

CrystaliZed · 03-14-2007, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stickyfingerz

I sent you an email the other day to your blackberry email need a quote on doing 842 paysites @ 3300.00 per site, did you get it?

I don't think so... when I did that download to upgrade my bb,
my bb failed also... so things were sketchy for a few days.

Send the details to: [email protected]
I'll look for it at that email.

Thanks! -Crystal.

KustomKowgurl · 03-14-2007, 04:28 PM

damn, that sucks. I always get really pissed when the service people can't speak english too! It's ridiculous. I spent almost two hours on the phone with a guy one time just to upgrade my plan. I was thisclose to just cancelling the plan and calling someone else, but I figured I'd run into the same exact problem wherever I went

stickyfingerz · 03-14-2007, 04:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CrystaliZed

I don't think so... when I did that download to upgrade my bb,
my bb failed also... so things were sketchy for a few days.

Send the details to: [email protected]
I'll look for it at that email.

Thanks! -Crystal.

Dude I was joking.....

chaze · 03-14-2007, 04:50 PM

Glad your back Crystal

Hate HD crashes.

CrystaliZed · 03-14-2007, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stickyfingerz

Dude I was joking.....

I realize that now...
I actually had missed emails about work tho so I thought
this was one of 'em - that's all.
I missed out on things on both my PC and BB for a few days.

rowan · 03-14-2007, 06:20 PM

I feel for you. I recently had to reinstall XP to redo my RAID configuration and I realised that while I had backed up the Program Files folder, I hadn't backed up the system state...... so the apps were there, but 'doze didn't know about them. I reinstalled again and just restored my data, now I'm manually installing apps.

audit01 · 03-14-2007, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stickyfingerz

Dude I was joking.....

Uh she's not a dude. She's a GREAT graphics person that's just looking for someone to give her a start. Doesn't matter if it's small logo's, button's, etc.

So here's a bump to give someone who deserves better a start that will hopefully move to better things.

notabook · 03-14-2007, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by audit01

Uh she's not a dude. She's a GREAT graphics person that's just looking for someone to give her a start. Doesn't matter if it's small logo's, button's, etc.

So here's a bump to give someone who deserves better a start that will hopefully move to better things.

Uh, dude is no longer considered gender-specific and can be used to describe both males and females.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude

rowan · 03-14-2007, 06:25 PM

That reminds me... just to get from XP SP1 to the current state with all updates applied required about 6 reboots. You just have to keep reloading windowsupdate.com until it tells you there's nothing left.

According to my review history 100+ updates were applied.

Dvae · 03-14-2007, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rowan

That reminds me... just to get from XP SP1 to the current state with all updates applied required about 6 reboots. You just have to keep reloading windowsupdate.com until it tells you there's nothing left.

According to my review history 100+ updates were applied.

Why would you torture yourself like that?
Switch to OSX.
Problem solved!

notabook · 03-14-2007, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rowan

That reminds me... just to get from XP SP1 to the current state with all updates applied required about 6 reboots. You just have to keep reloading windowsupdate.com until it tells you there's nothing left.

According to my review history 100+ updates were applied.

Why not take 10 minutes and read up on slipstreaming? You can get all current patches + SP2 in one neat package so when you install the OS CD it installs it all, leaving you little to download later in the form of updates...

CrystaliZed · 03-14-2007, 06:33 PM

wow... windows is such a mess.
Anyway, it should be ok now.
Now... back on with freelance work.

rowan · 03-14-2007, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by notabook

Why not take 10 minutes and read up on slipstreaming? You can get all current patches + SP2 in one neat package so when you install the OS CD it installs it all, leaving you little to download later in the form of updates...

I don't reinstall often enough to really think about that - I'd probably lose the CD and have to do the whole lot anyway.

I am a little puzzled why WU presented me with a bunch of older updates prior to offering SP2, though - shouldn't that have included all past updates?

Anyway, compared to manually reinstalling applications, doing the WU thing for 15 mins is nothing. The only gotcha is that I need to remember to firewall all inbound connections at my router when I first install XP.

notabook · 03-14-2007, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rowan

I don't reinstall often enough to really think about that - I'd probably lose the CD and have to do the whole lot anyway.

I am a little puzzled why WU presented me with a bunch of older updates prior to offering SP2, though - shouldn't that have included all past updates?

Anyway, compared to manually reinstalling applications, doing the WU thing for 15 mins is nothing. The only gotcha is that I need to remember to firewall all inbound connections at my router when I first install XP.

lol.. I actually lost my first slipstreamed CD

Glad I made a backup of it and stored it on DVD

I dunno why it offers you those updates first, I think those are the 'critical' ones that they think you need to get even before SP2, for at least some protection? Not sure

inwe · 03-14-2007, 07:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woj

too long to read, but either way...

congrats to all the winners

hahaha!

inwe · 03-14-2007, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woj

too long to read, but either way...

congrats to all the winners

hahaha!

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seriously, im glad that you were able to get your files back..i hope they were the updated ones too

Spunky · 03-14-2007, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woj

too long to read, but either way...

congrats to all the winners

Good job

stickyfingerz · 03-14-2007, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by audit01

Uh she's not a dude. She's a GREAT graphics person that's just looking for someone to give her a start. Doesn't matter if it's small logo's, button's, etc.

So here's a bump to give someone who deserves better a start that will hopefully move to better things.

I have not seen her tits therefore I must refer to "her" as dude from this point out...

03-14-2007, 03:50 PM	#1
CrystaliZed Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Somewhere I'd Rather Not Fuckin' Be! Posts: 282	Fuckin Windows XP I've been gone for awhile... why? Because the wonderful company of T-Mo told me to do an upgrade to my Blackberry and it's desktop software from their website. And ya know what happened?!... Both my PC and BB CRASHED!!! I tried callin Sony and they evidentally don't believe in HIRING ENGLISH SPEAKING CS REPS!!! So giving up on support options, I take on the project myself... I've been spending the past few days rebuilding my PC and my BB. T-Mo was willing to send me a new BB, but didn't wanna 'fess up to the corrupt download on their site. Needless to say... I only do downloads from Blackberry's site now. My PC was a royal pain in the ass. I've had my Sony VAIO for about 4 & 1/2 yrs now, with no problems what-so-ever, so this was a 1st. Thanks to Audit (John)... I was able to get a copy of XP and other software, since a lot of my shit's in storage. I had to do a complete overhaul of my C: drive and to make matters worse... the damn thing only gets 98% done and then I get an "ERROR UNKNOWN - Recovery Failed!" WTF?! So I'm sitting there with no OS... NOTHING. Luckly in Safe mode, before all this bullshit, I was able to back up 90% of my shit. So sitting there, I decide to put the copy of XP I had, back in to see if it would boot. And what-the-fuck do ya know?!... it LOADS!!! After 2 days of bullshit, it finally gives in and works! LOL! So here I am getting all my shit updated with IE, Windows, Virus and Spyware, etc... Goddamn, what a fuckin project... haha... Anyway, just thought I'd rant... Moral of the story: PC's are shit... back up your files!

03-14-2007, 04:04 PM	#2
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03-14-2007, 04:16 PM	#4
CrystaliZed Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Somewhere I'd Rather Not Fuckin' Be! Posts: 282	Alright... EDITED VERSION Because of a shitty blackberry upgrade T-Mo told me to download on their website both my PC and BB crashed. Spent 2 days rebuilding and trying to restore my PC and everything that could go wrong in the process, did. There... that better?! haha!

03-14-2007, 04:18 PM	#5
stickyfingerz Doin fine Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 24,983	I sent you an email the other day to your blackberry email need a quote on doing 842 paysites @ 3300.00 per site, did you get it?

03-14-2007, 04:50 PM	#9
chaze Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 9,752	Glad your back Crystal Hate HD crashes.

03-14-2007, 06:20 PM	#11
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	I feel for you. I recently had to reinstall XP to redo my RAID configuration and I realised that while I had backed up the Program Files folder, I hadn't backed up the system state...... so the apps were there, but 'doze didn't know about them. I reinstalled again and just restored my data, now I'm manually installing apps.

03-14-2007, 06:25 PM	#14
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	That reminds me... just to get from XP SP1 to the current state with all updates applied required about 6 reboots. You just have to keep reloading windowsupdate.com until it tells you there's nothing left. According to my review history 100+ updates were applied.

03-14-2007, 06:33 PM	#17
CrystaliZed Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Somewhere I'd Rather Not Fuckin' Be! Posts: 282	wow... windows is such a mess. Anyway, it should be ok now. Now... back on with freelance work.