SOMETIMES THE SIMPLE THINGS INFURIATE ME So there I was, trying to work with an application that just kept on blowing up in my face. No error messages - nothing. I, being the technical weenie that I am, tear open the case and start wripping components out of my system hoping that something inside is misconfigured or causing a glitch in this buggy code. I logged into the support site for the manufacturer of the motherboard that I was using to find out that there was a new version of BIOS available for my system. To my utter amusement, I found no less than 5 different BIOS versions for 4 different motherboard revisions. I knew what BIOS I was currently using - already told 'ya I was a techie. The system didn't report what version of motherboard I was using though, and there didn't seem to be any utility available to find out.
Great. Now I have to check out the motherboard and hope that something is written on it confirming the version that I had. A close inspection didn't reveal anything important. I checked out the various stickers hoping that one of them would have something that resembled a version number. Nothing appeared to ring a bell, unfortunately. Then I was off to their web site to pull down full size colour images of the motherboard that I could blow up and check out at 1200x resolution. Still nothing.
As a final straw I decided to get a flashlight and thrust my head into the bowels of this machine hoping to find a version number somewhere - anywhere! I ran down four flights of stairs, stepped on a cat, and tripped over two dogs trying to find my purple and yellow flashlight (hey, purple and yellow are just soooo cool together.) Now I had to run up four flights of stairs, and grab a bottle of wine in the process (might as well get a bit of a buzz whilst going through all this fucking bullshit.)
So, now I've got my head inside this stupid box. Fans are blowing hot air on my face whilst it is 32C outside, and I didn't bother to turn on the damn air conditioning. Roughly 30 minutes later I see something that might resemble a version number.... its so small that I pretty much can touch it with my nose. Luckily I had laser surgery last fall, and my right eye was over-compensated and sits at 20/10. So, to view the lettering with my supersonic vision, I only need to close my left eye. V1.04 YIPPEEEEE! Thank god I had that damn operation, or I wouldn't know what board I was usin'.
I update things, and guess what... it still doesn't work. Turns out the latest version of the software has some major bug in it that won't run on my machine regardless of what I do. Oh well, proves that laser surgery comes in handy....
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