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Saturday August 30, 2003
06:17 AM
new computer, interrupted
Well, that POS that I bought is going back to the store this morning. The problems began almost immediately when certain applications would run in a very jerky fashion (especially games). Between the kruft in XP, the kruft provided by HP and Norton AV kruft, there was just too much kruft. I tried removing Norton (a cure worse than the disease IMO), but to no avail.
So I said, "fuck it" and thought I would be smart and install Win2k on it instead. There was something I hadn't considered though - integrated ethernet. Win2k wouldn't even see the ethernet port. Checking the HP site (with my laptop) I could see that there was NO driver for anything other than Windows XP. I also tried Suse Linux 8.0 as well - no luck.
To top it all off they didn't even bother to include a Windows XP restore CD. So, they're getting back their hardware with Suse Linux 8.0 installed.
That'll teach me to ever buy a prefabbed system again.
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confused... (Score:2, Funny)
Then I realized it meant "Piece of
POS indeed (Score:1)