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Savant

Pancake

posted 08-06-2001 11:52:00 PM

Last night we had a power outtage for about 15 minutes -- When I turned my computer back on after the outtage, it found an "Unknown Device." Odd, but ok -- Click Cancel and move on. Nope. Apparently, that Unknown Device was my DSL modem - cause it no longer worked. Little orange light? Never turned green. Ever. Again.

I try to go back to an older registry setting, no help. Scandisk. No good. Defrag. Nada.

Tonight I spend 3 hours downloading the stupid drivers for the model on the 56k dialup (which my Outlook and IE won't even recognize at a net connection anymore) for it to not work. Keeps telling me there's no device installed for it. Lovely, looks like I'm stuck on molasses slow 56k.

I hate my PC. I will murder it.

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Inferno-Spirit

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posted 08-06-2001 11:54:00 PM

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Originally posted by Savant:
it found an "Unknown Device." Odd, but ok -- Click Cancel and move on.

Wonderful plan.

"He lets the last Hungarian go, and he goes running. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they grew up in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone. Underground. No one has ever seen him again. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. 'If you rat on your pop, Keyser Soze will get you.' And nobody really ever believes." - Roger 'Verbal' Kint, The Usual Suspects

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Savant

Pancake

posted 08-06-2001 11:57:00 PM

Would you rather I installed a device which had no drivers so that my device manager ended up with a lovely yellow circle with an exclamation point through it?

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Wonderful plan.

And your sig pic is from The Usual Suspects. So change it.

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Peach

Good intentions? Or *bad* intentions?

posted 08-07-2001 12:21:00 PM

points and laughs at Savant

HA HA!

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Lalamile

My title doesn't even make sense any more

posted 08-07-2001 12:23:00 PM

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And your sig pic is from The Usual Suspects. So change it.

We know that. There is another thread on that. He should already be doing it, but... I don't know if he wanted the guys real name, or alis.

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Callalron

Hires people with hooks

posted 08-07-2001 09:30:00 AM

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Originally posted by Lalamile:
We know that. There is another thread on that. He should already be doing it, but... I don't know if he wanted the guys real name, or alis.

Well, to clear up both points. For most of the movie he uses the name "Verbal" Kint. Only after the he walks out of the police station and the fax with the composite drawing comes in from the hospital do you find out that he's actually Keyser Söze. There.

Thank you, drive through.

Callalron
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Azizza

VANDERSHANKED

posted 08-07-2001 09:58:00 AM

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Originally posted by Savant:
Would you rather I installed a device which had no drivers so that my device manager ended up with a lovely yellow circle with an exclamation point through it?

Actually yes this is normally the best path to follow.

"Pacifism is a privilege of the protected"

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Dave

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posted 08-07-2001 10:15:00 AM

Try these things, goto your device drivers and remove anything that would be your dsl modem. Shut down, power on the dsl modem.

If that doesn't work call your dsl provider if its their modem they'll come and fix it.

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Peter

Pancake

posted 08-07-2001 10:41:00 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Savant:
Last night we had a power outtage for about 15 minutes -- When I turned my computer back on after the outtage, it found an "Unknown Device." Odd, but ok -- Click Cancel and move on. Nope. Apparently, that Unknown Device was my DSL modem - cause it no longer worked. Little orange light? Never turned green. Ever. Again.
I try to go back to an older registry setting, no help. Scandisk. No good. Defrag. Nada.
Tonight I spend 3 hours downloading the stupid drivers for the model on the 56k dialup (which my Outlook and IE won't even recognize at a net connection anymore) for it to not work. Keeps telling me there's no device installed for it. Lovely, looks like I'm stuck on molasses slow 56k.
I hate my PC. I will murder it.

Maybe it's the actull hardware and not a software problem? or if your provider has somethiig wrong with there eqipment?

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Pesco

Is a copyright of Peachis. Don't underestimate his pants, either.