Joys of Reinstalling
Had oodles of fun last night while working on reformatting my PC. A while ago, I'd made the mistake of installing the Visual Studio 2005 CP on my PC and it took over VS 2003. Then when I uninstalled it, it undid all of the file associations instead of resetting them to VS 2003. Plus, I'm somewhat of a purist, I like a clean install, and hate having old stuff linger around for a long time.
Either way, what I thought would be a relatively simple task became a pain. Ended up reformatting/reinstalling 3 times before finally getting everything right. I would install just fine, and it would boot up great. Then the first thing I do is go get everything from Windows Update. I'd get the updates, reboot, and then it wouldn't boot... it would take forever to load, and never actually make it. You know how the "Windows XP" logo with the scrolling bar kind of fades into view? I could see if fade in frame by frame with about a second in between each.
The first time, thought something got jacked (somehow), so I re-did it. The second time, I knew something was up. Then I noticed Windows Update had a new driver for my Silicon Image SATA chip for May 12th. Figure it probably just made it onto WU this month, and I knew I hadn't downloaded it before. Plus bad drive performance could be a reasonable cause. So reformatted again, went to Windows Update, and skipped the driver. Wa-la! Works just fine now.
So warning to others who have a Silicon Image 3112 chipset in their motherboard: download the new driver with caution.
Ohh, and BlogJet is pretty sweet.