Alright so here's my story. I decided i wanted a new mouse, and a nice one at that, So naturally i bought a Logitech MX500. Now don't get me wrong this is an amazing mouse, but i had some problems getting the scroll button (where you push down on the scroll wheel) to work in games. So i figured i'd install the older drivers off of the cd that came with it manually (through the update driver wizard, manually specifing the driver). Now i recentlly got my A+ certification so while i'm not god (YET) i defiently do know my way around a computer.
Here's where s**t hits the fan, after the new driver's installed the computer just shuts down. No biggie, just a little error, so i restart. Again shuts right down, so i try to restart again and i get a dreaded error message "Error loading OS". being the good tech i am i had recentally bought a 30GB hard drive and backed up all my music and movies and stuff, but i had a huge essay i was working on that had yet to get backed up. I tried for about an hour to manually get the damn thing working again but to no avail. So i used the XP cd to do the "repair current installation". I then had to call microsoft and go throught all their s**t to reactivate windows (which was alot easier then i thought it would be to tell the truth) and finally it was all up and running, or so i thought. Now every time i would click the mouse i'd get a funky blue screen (not the usuall one you would see) and be forced to shut down. So i jumped into safe mode, changed drivers, and still no luck, different mice didn't work either. So i went throught the whole repairing process one more time out of pure desperation, called microsoft, and now i'm typing this with no problems what so ever!!! Only problem, i'm afraid to update the driver since it's running of a driver for a different mouse right now (all but one button's working flawlessly though).
Anyway any insight would be helpfull but i wanted all of you to know my horror story. Oh yea and the entire process took about...8 hours, although most of the time i was with my family for fathers day or punching walls and yelling horribly horribly foul words.
Here's where s**t hits the fan, after the new driver's installed the computer just shuts down. No biggie, just a little error, so i restart. Again shuts right down, so i try to restart again and i get a dreaded error message "Error loading OS". being the good tech i am i had recentally bought a 30GB hard drive and backed up all my music and movies and stuff, but i had a huge essay i was working on that had yet to get backed up. I tried for about an hour to manually get the damn thing working again but to no avail. So i used the XP cd to do the "repair current installation". I then had to call microsoft and go throught all their s**t to reactivate windows (which was alot easier then i thought it would be to tell the truth) and finally it was all up and running, or so i thought. Now every time i would click the mouse i'd get a funky blue screen (not the usuall one you would see) and be forced to shut down. So i jumped into safe mode, changed drivers, and still no luck, different mice didn't work either. So i went throught the whole repairing process one more time out of pure desperation, called microsoft, and now i'm typing this with no problems what so ever!!! Only problem, i'm afraid to update the driver since it's running of a driver for a different mouse right now (all but one button's working flawlessly though).
Anyway any insight would be helpfull but i wanted all of you to know my horror story. Oh yea and the entire process took about...8 hours, although most of the time i was with my family for fathers day or punching walls and yelling horribly horribly foul words.
