Wednesday, July 29, 2009
7
After realising that after about 12 months of not really maintaining my XP system, pieces started falling apart, crumbling away at the edges like a mouldy sponge-cake made of, I dunno, computers or something.
First, it was that my system started crashing occasionally when I ran Ableton Live - not good when I'm actually jamming with someone - then it was having trouble remembering that I had a 2-octave keyboard plugged into it (although it likes my 61-key midi controller - weird, no?) - and recently, after having taken Forged Alliance back up, the entire system will arbitrarily die on me either the instant a game starts up, or when they've been running for a few minutes, after which point, I'll try restarting, only to have it switch off by itself when I manage to get back into Windows. It's like I push the power switch, then compy pushes the power switch. Then I push it again, only to have the compy push it again. The machine literally thinks it's the boss of me.
The bootup times have been horrendous lately as well - I have generally been putting my system on standby instead of turning it off since I've been living here in order to preserve settings that I can't be bothered saving. Lazy, amirite? Guess I had to expect my PC to rebel against me at some point.
Hey, since I have a Windows 7 CD that I borrowed from Dan, I might as well wipe my disk and start again, having successfully avoided the catastrophe that was Windows Vista - never had it on my own computer.
So far, so good. I have yet to start installing drivers - Firefox is the first and only thing I've installed as I write this, but we'll see how it goes.
Oh, I have a suspicion that 7 handles IRQs differently, which may resolve my firewire interface's inability to process mic-level signals for recording purposes. Here's hoping - a firewire card I bought sure as hell didn't work.
In conclusion: Unless you skimmed the entire post until this point, I'm sorry I made you read this.
First, it was that my system started crashing occasionally when I ran Ableton Live - not good when I'm actually jamming with someone - then it was having trouble remembering that I had a 2-octave keyboard plugged into it (although it likes my 61-key midi controller - weird, no?) - and recently, after having taken Forged Alliance back up, the entire system will arbitrarily die on me either the instant a game starts up, or when they've been running for a few minutes, after which point, I'll try restarting, only to have it switch off by itself when I manage to get back into Windows. It's like I push the power switch, then compy pushes the power switch. Then I push it again, only to have the compy push it again. The machine literally thinks it's the boss of me.
The bootup times have been horrendous lately as well - I have generally been putting my system on standby instead of turning it off since I've been living here in order to preserve settings that I can't be bothered saving. Lazy, amirite? Guess I had to expect my PC to rebel against me at some point.
Hey, since I have a Windows 7 CD that I borrowed from Dan, I might as well wipe my disk and start again, having successfully avoided the catastrophe that was Windows Vista - never had it on my own computer.
So far, so good. I have yet to start installing drivers - Firefox is the first and only thing I've installed as I write this, but we'll see how it goes.
Oh, I have a suspicion that 7 handles IRQs differently, which may resolve my firewire interface's inability to process mic-level signals for recording purposes. Here's hoping - a firewire card I bought sure as hell didn't work.
In conclusion: Unless you skimmed the entire post until this point, I'm sorry I made you read this.
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