"What part of 'Didi-mow' did you not understand?" I angrily asked my monitor when it displayed an error message every time I tried to reinstall Earth & Beyond. It's been almost two weeks of trying to install the game, but nothing has helped. I tried everything I could think of, downloaded new drivers, check the inside of my case, repeatedly talked to EA tech support, but still nothing. The latest reply I got from EA seemed to be getting closer to solving my problem. I forgot to inform them that I was trying to REinstall the game. So when the e-mail asked if I was, I knew I was getting some where. Now the only thing I'm worried about is if they will reply again. They have a syestem of if you don't reply in two days, they asume that your problem has been resolved. Well, for christmas, I got a lot of computer stuff, new mother board, new 2.4 gigabertz processer, 256Mb of DDR 333 memory (new), a new cooling fan for my CPU, and thermal gel (which I couldn't use becuase you can't adhier to aluminum, which is what my fan is made of.) So most of my break I was trying to get it to work. After I installed every thing, it worked fairly ok, there were some problems, nothing I couldn't really handle. Then one day when a couple of friends were over, I couldn't get online for some odd reason. So I checked the connection from my cable modem to my eithernet card. I wiggled the end connected to the card to make sure, and forgot that my compaq case didn't have screws to hold the cards in. So, obviosly, the card poped out. I quickly looked up at the screen to see that it was frozen. I knew that wasn't good at all, but it was ok becuase, I was already in the fetal position.
When I turned on the pc again, nothing showed up on the screen. I could hear the fans, hard drives, every thing work for a while, then the hard drive would just stop doing things, not turn off, just not do to much, like it felt it had no purpose. So for five days I tried every thing I could do. I took out my new mother board and put in the old one, I diconected my second hard drive, switched around the pci cards, took out my video card and used my old mother board, I even took out my C:\ drive and took to my dads house and put it in his computer. Actually after I talk to this one home pc repair guy for about an hour, I started to think that it might be the hard drive. I've had my D:\ drive crash twice, but i just reformated it. But if the C:\ drive was corrupted, then my whole pc wouldn't work (My C:\ drive has never crashed). He thought it was the mother board, but I told him I switched it out. He asked me how old I was...
So I took the C:\ drive over to my dad's house and tried it in his pc. I was surprized to find that it worked fine, nothing corrupted, nothing infected( not that it would be). |
