Wednesday, June 01, 2005

System Restore Saved My Machine (again)

My sound dissappeared from my PC last night. There seemed to be a dodgy driver set on the Biostar site cos when I installed it, or rather tried to install it, it just wouldn't. At all.

I was left with no sound. Which is a pain cos my main use for the computer is my music!

As a last resort I used System Restore. To Microsoft's credit, it worked. I've had to use it a dozen or so times before now and every once in a while it won't work. This time it did, so I was happy :)

The only problem it caused was that I had to reinstall Zone Alarm as I'd put a new version of that on at the same time as installing the new drivers. It wasn't a big deal cos I could listen to The Ramones while I was doing it!

MaFt

1 comment:

MaFt said...

yeah, i had problems with service pack 2... completely got rid of my wireless internet settings! actually phoned microsoft in the end and got a helpful person too. i was well surprised! you know what it was? i had to "open port 80 for http in the windows firewall" - you'd think they'd have THAT one open by default...