skavenhorde
Little BRO Rat
I just got back from America and set up my mom's new computer. It came with Vista. I set it up did all the driver stuff and loaded The Witcher for her to play. Everything was going great till about halfway through the first tutorial. The I heard my mom scream "HELP" I went over and it seems that Vista doesn't like Witcher at all. It would crash or freeze up every now and then while playing. So I tried loading KOTOR 2 and that game wouldn't even start. So I gave her the option of rolling back to WINXP or keep trying the games. Of course she opted to roll back.
Now here is where the Microsoft Corp and HP corp really pissed me off. There were certain drivers I needed when I installed WINXP. So I looked up on HP's webpage and they had a nice little page warning about the evils of going back to WINXP. You may have seen something like this in other products "If you go back to a different operating system HP is not responsible for any damage done to your computer" ok well that should scare off the newbies from trying to do it but not me I know enough about computers to be dangeroues Anyways I figured out her video card driver (wan't too hard to find a driver for NVIDIA ) and nothing blew up. Then after a bit of searching I found her sound card driver. Then the motherboard and packets came next. This I couldn't figure out on my own so I call up tech support to ask them to give me the BRAND NAMES and versions of the components in the computer. First I got a really rude guy (he must love Vista a lot or gets these kinds of calls about 100 times a day) anyways he flat out refused to help me saying that it would void the warrenty. Bullshit I have the recover disks that sends the whole computer right back to Vista. So I talked to a Costco REP next (She bought it at Costco) and she was really nice, hooked me up with another guy at HP which then told me that if the computer was sent back the techs would put Vista back on it and all your data would be erased. DUDE THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE COMPUTER I JUST WANT THE NAMES OF THE HARDWARE INSIDE MY COMPUTER. Sorry about the all caps but even thinking about it now I'm a bit peeved. He wouldn't do it so the Costco girl gave me a 1 800 line that might help. The HP guy was still on the line and told her she couldn't give out that information because that is for inhouse only. She said but it's a 1 800 tech support line, then the douche bag finally shut up. After I called that number I got a really nice guy who sent me an email right away with all the info I needed on my computer.
After that it was a breeze I setup WinXp with no problems found the drivers I needed. Loaded them with no problems (the world didn't come crashing to an end and the computer didn't blow up) now my mom is kicking some monster butt with Witcher and KOTOR 2.
The moral of this story my wee ratties is DON'T UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE buy Vista. It is the devil's program and hates anything to do with having fun on the PC. Vista reminds me of my sixth grade teacher. He was always taking away my D&D books because he thought they were evil. Vista does something similiar. Takes away the gaming portion of the computer and just works well with business crap.
Anyways just thought I would share that little fun adventure with you guys.
Now here is where the Microsoft Corp and HP corp really pissed me off. There were certain drivers I needed when I installed WINXP. So I looked up on HP's webpage and they had a nice little page warning about the evils of going back to WINXP. You may have seen something like this in other products "If you go back to a different operating system HP is not responsible for any damage done to your computer" ok well that should scare off the newbies from trying to do it but not me I know enough about computers to be dangeroues Anyways I figured out her video card driver (wan't too hard to find a driver for NVIDIA ) and nothing blew up. Then after a bit of searching I found her sound card driver. Then the motherboard and packets came next. This I couldn't figure out on my own so I call up tech support to ask them to give me the BRAND NAMES and versions of the components in the computer. First I got a really rude guy (he must love Vista a lot or gets these kinds of calls about 100 times a day) anyways he flat out refused to help me saying that it would void the warrenty. Bullshit I have the recover disks that sends the whole computer right back to Vista. So I talked to a Costco REP next (She bought it at Costco) and she was really nice, hooked me up with another guy at HP which then told me that if the computer was sent back the techs would put Vista back on it and all your data would be erased. DUDE THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE COMPUTER I JUST WANT THE NAMES OF THE HARDWARE INSIDE MY COMPUTER. Sorry about the all caps but even thinking about it now I'm a bit peeved. He wouldn't do it so the Costco girl gave me a 1 800 line that might help. The HP guy was still on the line and told her she couldn't give out that information because that is for inhouse only. She said but it's a 1 800 tech support line, then the douche bag finally shut up. After I called that number I got a really nice guy who sent me an email right away with all the info I needed on my computer.
After that it was a breeze I setup WinXp with no problems found the drivers I needed. Loaded them with no problems (the world didn't come crashing to an end and the computer didn't blow up) now my mom is kicking some monster butt with Witcher and KOTOR 2.
The moral of this story my wee ratties is DON'T UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE buy Vista. It is the devil's program and hates anything to do with having fun on the PC. Vista reminds me of my sixth grade teacher. He was always taking away my D&D books because he thought they were evil. Vista does something similiar. Takes away the gaming portion of the computer and just works well with business crap.
Anyways just thought I would share that little fun adventure with you guys.