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caLLous
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I'm having something of a shit week.
Thursday night, I reboot my box and it refuses to go back into XP (it sat at a black screen after the XP logo appears for the first time). I start fretting and boot into 2k for the first time in months. The PCI RAID controller wasn't installed in 2k and I couldn't find the floppy with drivers on it (and it wasn't on the 2K cd, either) so I had to make do without 2 of my hd's in 2k. By this time, I had resigned to the fact that I would have to reinstall XP, so this didn't bother me too much.
So, I reinstalled XP (I turned my room upside down and found the RAID controller's drivers during the install - you know when you know you've seen something recently and can't for the life of you remember where? :/) and installed all devices (the onboard RAID controller on my mobo was installed during the XP install) etc... I installed the PCI RAID controller, and neither of the hd's connected to it showed up in explorer. Strange. I thought, as I remembered them popping right up after installing the drivers previously without the need for a reboot. So i reboot, thinking not much of it, and I'm presented with the same fucking black screen that I saw before all this started. I powered down, ripped open the box, disconnected all 4 60gb hd's, plugged the top one in and went though until I found it was the last one that had died. I booted with it plugged in and realised that it was infact whirring it's little guts out when that black screen appeared (damn things are so quiet). I turned it all off and went to bed at this point.
Wake up on Friday morning and realise that my DSL modem had disconnected itself about 2 hours previously. Try and reconnect, I get "Error opening port". I phoned ZenADSL, and they said that something needed resetting at the local exchange and they'd get in touch with a BT engineer ASAP and it should be fixed by early afternoon. The BT engineer contacted me mid-afternoon to say that he was going to reset something then and there and wanted to know if the flashing red light on my modem changed at all as he was doing it. It didn't. He said he was going to reset something else and would call back.
That was on Friday. Today is Monday. Zen is closed at the weekends so there was approximately fuck all I could do about it. I tried ringing every BT number I could get my hands on, but was told by every one that it was Zen's problem and not BT's. I argued that it was equally a BT problem as it was one of their engineers that didn't call back and/or fix the problem after it had been passed onto them by Zen. Didn't help.
0930 - Anyway, the issue still hasn't been resolved (this is being written in a weird, pseudo pre-emptive stylee). I'm waiting for Zen tech support to call me back... Ho hum.
1000 - "We're having problems with our office network, please call back in 30 minutes..." Grrrrr
1100 - "Should be fixed by early afternoon..."
1600 - "A BT Engineer will be out tomorrow morning between 8 and 10am..."
TUESDAY. FS.
1200 - Grrr, it's fixed! I'm back! Turns out the modem was borked, wasn't taking any power from the USB port of something.
Huge routing problems though.
Oh, and the HD was fine too, I ran the IBM Drive Fitness Test on it and it had some problems that it sorted.
Thursday night, I reboot my box and it refuses to go back into XP (it sat at a black screen after the XP logo appears for the first time). I start fretting and boot into 2k for the first time in months. The PCI RAID controller wasn't installed in 2k and I couldn't find the floppy with drivers on it (and it wasn't on the 2K cd, either) so I had to make do without 2 of my hd's in 2k. By this time, I had resigned to the fact that I would have to reinstall XP, so this didn't bother me too much.
So, I reinstalled XP (I turned my room upside down and found the RAID controller's drivers during the install - you know when you know you've seen something recently and can't for the life of you remember where? :/) and installed all devices (the onboard RAID controller on my mobo was installed during the XP install) etc... I installed the PCI RAID controller, and neither of the hd's connected to it showed up in explorer. Strange. I thought, as I remembered them popping right up after installing the drivers previously without the need for a reboot. So i reboot, thinking not much of it, and I'm presented with the same fucking black screen that I saw before all this started. I powered down, ripped open the box, disconnected all 4 60gb hd's, plugged the top one in and went though until I found it was the last one that had died. I booted with it plugged in and realised that it was infact whirring it's little guts out when that black screen appeared (damn things are so quiet). I turned it all off and went to bed at this point.
Wake up on Friday morning and realise that my DSL modem had disconnected itself about 2 hours previously. Try and reconnect, I get "Error opening port". I phoned ZenADSL, and they said that something needed resetting at the local exchange and they'd get in touch with a BT engineer ASAP and it should be fixed by early afternoon. The BT engineer contacted me mid-afternoon to say that he was going to reset something then and there and wanted to know if the flashing red light on my modem changed at all as he was doing it. It didn't. He said he was going to reset something else and would call back.
That was on Friday. Today is Monday. Zen is closed at the weekends so there was approximately fuck all I could do about it. I tried ringing every BT number I could get my hands on, but was told by every one that it was Zen's problem and not BT's. I argued that it was equally a BT problem as it was one of their engineers that didn't call back and/or fix the problem after it had been passed onto them by Zen. Didn't help.
0930 - Anyway, the issue still hasn't been resolved (this is being written in a weird, pseudo pre-emptive stylee). I'm waiting for Zen tech support to call me back... Ho hum.
1000 - "We're having problems with our office network, please call back in 30 minutes..." Grrrrr
1100 - "Should be fixed by early afternoon..."
1600 - "A BT Engineer will be out tomorrow morning between 8 and 10am..."
TUESDAY. FS.
1200 - Grrr, it's fixed! I'm back! Turns out the modem was borked, wasn't taking any power from the USB port of something.
Huge routing problems though.
Oh, and the HD was fine too, I ran the IBM Drive Fitness Test on it and it had some problems that it sorted.
