steve kwan user experience designer

format c:

(October 28th, 2005 - 6:40PM)

I wiped my C: drive clean and reinstalled Windows.

My Line In stopped responding, which meant that I couldn't watch TV on my tuner. Line In was mysteriously replaced by something called Phone, which emitted static hissing. Because I couldn't tolerate not listening to Jon Stewart, I decided to buy a new sound card. My old one was onboard, so I really didn't have a hard time convincing myself I needed a new one.

My new sound card didn't seem to work at all. I couldn't get any sound after I installed it. I couldn't even get media players to play songs; they would start and stop as soon as I pressed play. I decided it must be a software problem, so I formatted my C: drive. Afterward, I still couldn't get it to work - it turned out I'd plugged the new sound card into a dead PCI slot. So I formatted unnecessarily.

I also attempted to use the Windows recovery feature that appears when you boot off a Windows XP installation CD. I highly recommend you never use this. It actually made problems worse. Everything on my computer ran a lot slower after the repair process "fixed" things.

My updates might be sparse for a while, because I have to get my computer set up again. And I'm lazy.