On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 15:15, Tor Harald Thorland wrote: > > > > Instead, XP users hit this when they add hardware and the 'automatic > > detection' goes to work. Good examples are the 3Com cards that have > > you put a CD in *before* installing the hardware so that the hardware > > detection can be tweaked or disabled. This wreaks havoc on a reinstall > > because you end up physically pulling hardware out of the box and > > trying to put it back in the right order in order to avoid the plug > > and play from killing the install. On Linux, the cards just work. > > > A little funny issue from me too,,, > Did a webupdate from microsoft on a computer running XP Home yesterday, > and it did a "upgrade" on a mouse driver (from the microsoft site) > The update needed a restart, and when I pressed the OK button the PC > went to the "blue screen". When I rebooted it, it went fine until the XP > logo showed up, then the computer restarted by it self. And restarted > and restarted. > I tryed the "last working setup" from the "rescue screen".... And it > didn't work either > In the end I had to reinstall!! Another fun one is to try to install any flavor of windows on a box with no floppy and the latest Adaptec scsi controller (i.e. a typical rack-mount server). Windows will let you add drivers during the install, but the only place you can load them is from a floppy. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
