I’m pissed.
I got home from work today, thinking I would simply install a new CD-RW device and things would be hunky-dory on my new machine. I have Windows XP Home. I saw the icon for a Windows Update. Installed that; it was something about a malicious software detector from Microsoft. Shut down the system completely. Installed the CD-RW. Rebooted. The system came up, and the CD-RW appeared to work, but couldn’t close the CD. Tried to go to the internet. It couldn’t find any hosts. There was also something new showing up in the icon tray called “Network Bridge”. Tried all sorts of stuff: checking the network settings, enabling and disabling the network bridge. Nothing worked. Tried to restore to a restore point. Wouldn’t work. Removed the new CD-RW and put back in the old CD-ROM. Rebooted. Network still didn’t work. Tried the system restore. Still didn’t work. Grrrrrrr…..
We’ve called our service technician from Compunerds. I hope he can fix it; if not, it will be a system restore and reinstalling *everything* (except for data files).
Update: I did try deleting the network bridge. It still can’t get an IP address, and I did verify that the DSN settings are correct. Double grrrr.
I’m pissed. This is just what I needed.
