arrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh

21 Dec 2009 10:09

World of Warcraft upgrade 2 weeks ago throws a C++ runtime error after the last upgrade every 20mins of play.
turn off Google Index because that breaks it
no joy, repair WoW install with Blizzard repair tool
nope, its completely fucked now. won’t even start.
ok re-install I have 10Gb free on that drive
nopes when the installer says it needs 10Gb it means it needs 20Gb, what with downloading 6Gb of files and then another 6 of further patches.
4 days and many attempts to download and re-install later. Same issue.
look sod it I am just going to re-install the machine. Fresh XP / Fresh Ubuntu. Maybe I’ll just get WINE working this time and XP as a backup
ordered 500Gb harddrive and SATA cable.
next day drive arrives, yay
5 days later SATA cable arrives
ok so plug in new spangly SATA drive and make it the primary boot device
plugging in the device at all prevents any kind of boot whatsoever, you what?
ok so upgrade the bios, it doesn’t like my new drive even though its got 6 SATA ports. 2 standard and 4 RAID.
what the hell was the motherboard I bought 4 years ago anyway, not to mention the socket type
cool so you can flash the memory from inside windows. think again.
right so you can create a boot cd that does it, no.
download FreeDOS, boot from it and get a command prompt. Ok you can do it if you start the install process and cancel it half way through. But not if you actually just select boot into LiveCD.
get pre-burnt bios update tool and bios. Oh yeah its the K8N-E Deluxe bios you need not the K8N-E. sigh
re-burn bios update. repeat
AFUDOS /iK8NE1011.AMI
at bloody last
does it boot with the SATA drive attached. not a chance
I think perhaps this PC needs to live in the garden

OK so more googling

and you finally find some other poor souls who are also suffering
BIOS upgrade