Windoze crash (was Re: Well, I was at Fry's in CA...)

In message <Pine.BSO.4.44.0307061801500.20123-100000(a)vaxlab.pdp11.nl> "Fred N. van Kempen" <waltje(a)pdp11.nl> wrote: I find the "big guys" like Creative are utterly crap when it comes to drivers and tech support. "There's nothing wrong with the driver, it must be your PC." Oh, is that why I saw a good hundred people badmouthing a certain Soundblaster on the newsgroups? Well, speaking of SBs, I had an AWE64. The PnP E2PROM got trashed by a bug in their driver. Their "techie" said, and I quote: "Well, your guarantee's void. You used unapproved drivers and it broke, so you're on your own". I asked how they could tell that I had used unapproved drivers. The techie said "Well, you obviously used the beta drivers on our website, 'cos that's a known bug". Despite the fact that at this point I had no internet access and had heard many a horror story about beta drivers... Then there was the fun I had with a D-Link network card (based on a Realtek chipset). Here's a tip - grab Realtek's latest driver kit and install it. I had lost packets, Windows networking errors, you name it. Upgraded the drivers and the network card suddenly started working properly... Later. -- Phil. philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ Error 8472. Borg dumped.