I hope a Thank You is OK

Kenjesse · Jun 2, 2006, 12:05 PM

Where else should a lowly sorta wannabe computer type person find the gods of drivers and info but here in this bit of heaven in cyber land? Sometimes the obvious place is the right place.

Well anyway some years ago I put together this here computer that I’m still using today. It’s a 3rd generation build for me that started with MS Dos and was upgrade across platforms all the way to XP Home SP2 and I might add except for that dreadful ME experiment…ahhhhhhgggg… with little or no trouble. The current info:

1st Main AZ11E Motherboard with VIA KT133 chipset

AMD K6 “Thunder Bird” 950 processor

Sound Blaster PCI512 Sound Card (with 4.1 Speaker System)

GeForce3 Ti 200 APG Video Card

500+ Meg of Ram

I’m a simple kinda guy and I mostly deal with Burglary and Fire Alarm System, Access Control, CCTV…etc. My computer was just fine for me until I bought that ATI TV Wonder Pro tuner. That was 7 days ago. The 1st attempt at installing it went fairly well and it even worked, a little. Tried making what adjustments that were available in the software that came with it and things went from “Well it works…” to “What happened to my sound?” and quickly onto “Well just how in the FU**(%# HE?@ am I suppose to reinstall anything without a DA%*! WORKING CD OR DVD DRIVE!”

I managed to step back and gather myself, I had after all created Restore Points… except during the several system lockups and crashes while trying to reinstall XP drivers for my “The driver is loaded but has not started” non FUC&@@! WORKING sound card… Turns out some files needed for the restore got sorta “mangled”…lol This after a few days of searching out the fix for the CD and DVD drives.

Then at my lowest point having resigned myself to a cruel and unjust fate… A complete reformat and reinstall of XP I prayed that those gods that I just knew are striding the ethereal plans of the internet should watch over me and guide me through that valley of wrecked systems that I know have gone before me that are the older computer and XP install. Then of all things my “It really is authentic and I did buy it, true Microsoft Windows XP Home Upgrade installation CD” said it could not detect a qualifying product on my computer…DUH?? I set it up as a dual boot 98SE and XP system? Please insert your qualifying product “CD” in the CD drive to continue. Of course all I can find are my Win 95 3.5” discs and you can’t get XP to look at the A drive.

Back to the Internet…Google…word the question just a little different (surely the gods have an answer for me, else why prevent my reinstall of XP) and there it was Driver Heaven. Well KX project CL drivers, Driver Cleaner Pro, and a lone comment about a TV add-in for Winamp later and just like that…EVERYTHING NOW WORKS!!!!

THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! I am truly not worthy. Donations shall be forthcoming and I’m thinking I can use that free space I have for a personal web site for a Temple with a nice but simple alter for you folks, the gods that dwell and perform miracles at Driver Heaven.

A true believer, Kenjesse in FL.

Judas · Jun 2, 2006, 12:33 PM

Now don't touch anything

Chaos · Jun 2, 2006, 12:42 PM

Thank You for the kind words, the community here @ DH tries hard to help whenever possible

pr0digal jenius · Jun 2, 2006, 07:07 PM

indeed....it's good to see we're doing the right things and helping people

***Zardon*** · Jun 3, 2006, 02:55 PM

your thanks is appreciated, enjoy the site !

**Asmoday** · Jun 5, 2006, 09:15 AM

Welcome to Driver Heaven!

Kombatant · Jun 6, 2006, 02:36 AM

Threads like that always put a smile on my face and help reminding me of what I'm here for... to help people, like other people helped me in the past. Enjoy DH

swimtech · Jun 17, 2006, 06:57 PM

We're here for you - even with your system specs! Hehe, take a look at mine...

reineken · Jun 25, 2006, 03:46 AM

i need to say thanks to all the people involve for giving solutions and informations on technical issues that is encountered by all the members here in this community.

people here are great and keep up the good work and thanks to webmaster too for putting up this community. again THANK YOU GUYS!!!

kn00tcn · Jun 25, 2006, 04:21 AM

& i've had very few issues, but learned a lot from reading the past half year, so now i start helping out since i joined a week or 2 ago

***Zardon*** · Jun 25, 2006, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by kn00tcn

& i've had very few issues, but learned a lot from reading the past half year, so now i start helping out since i joined a week or 2 ago

Its people like you that help the place grow, and the fact you are helping when you can is great!

**Asmoday** · Jun 25, 2006, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

Its people like you that help the place grow, and the fact you are helping when you can is great!

Indeed!