Post by tenten on May 3, 2010 8:45:32 GMT -6
Yeah...
So now, I officially hate ATI video cards.
In attempting to transfer to a new drive to reinstall [as my 80gb drive was on the fritz constantly, and we could barely get it started up to transfer my old files to the new drive] it's been found out that my ATI video card isn't really, well, liking anything to do with the computer in general. Basically, the problem is that I can't do ANYTHING on the computer. I can't click, nothing, at least after I start it up. I tried starting up Firefox, but once I got into Firefox I couldn't do anything inside the window; I could only minimize it by clicking on the taskbar. Even transferring my files was a bitch because I had to do EVERYTHING by keyboard. ALMOST one-by-one. It was a pain in the ass.
So, yeah, I'm not going to be on for a while. I don't exactly know how long, but I'm supposed to be reinstalling on another drive [200gb rather than the 40gb I'm on now] so that I don't have to worry about space and having my 80gb crashing on me while I'm using it for storage. As well, my dad has to disable my ATI card and use the on-board nVidia card. I know it doesn't have anything to do with the OS, because I tried on 10.04 AND 9.10 and got the same result. : /
So... yeah. If anybody really needs to contact me, I might go on at the library depending, but Aya's got my cell number and can text me, and e-mail's usable as well. Hopefully sometime this week [since a reinstall doesn't take too long, and I don't think it'll take long to disable the ATI card, either] I'll be back and going, but if not hopefully by next Monday.
As for Reinja's app... Yeah, I don't think I'll be able to do much of anything for work on it. I may re-access it online and put it into a .txt file [at least the history] and rewrite that, since that's the biggest problem.
So now, I officially hate ATI video cards.
In attempting to transfer to a new drive to reinstall [as my 80gb drive was on the fritz constantly, and we could barely get it started up to transfer my old files to the new drive] it's been found out that my ATI video card isn't really, well, liking anything to do with the computer in general. Basically, the problem is that I can't do ANYTHING on the computer. I can't click, nothing, at least after I start it up. I tried starting up Firefox, but once I got into Firefox I couldn't do anything inside the window; I could only minimize it by clicking on the taskbar. Even transferring my files was a bitch because I had to do EVERYTHING by keyboard. ALMOST one-by-one. It was a pain in the ass.
So, yeah, I'm not going to be on for a while. I don't exactly know how long, but I'm supposed to be reinstalling on another drive [200gb rather than the 40gb I'm on now] so that I don't have to worry about space and having my 80gb crashing on me while I'm using it for storage. As well, my dad has to disable my ATI card and use the on-board nVidia card. I know it doesn't have anything to do with the OS, because I tried on 10.04 AND 9.10 and got the same result. : /
So... yeah. If anybody really needs to contact me, I might go on at the library depending, but Aya's got my cell number and can text me, and e-mail's usable as well. Hopefully sometime this week [since a reinstall doesn't take too long, and I don't think it'll take long to disable the ATI card, either] I'll be back and going, but if not hopefully by next Monday.
As for Reinja's app... Yeah, I don't think I'll be able to do much of anything for work on it. I may re-access it online and put it into a .txt file [at least the history] and rewrite that, since that's the biggest problem.