Re: A8N-SLI LAN1 not working.(solved)

Geez - talk about opening up a can of worms! :)

The reason I have always (and still do) advocate reinstalling windows
at least yearly (yes, with all apps and drivers) is for a couple
reasons. First, active users tend to install/uninstall a good amount
of software and with Windows' lack of a proper OS-based uninstall
system, plenty of "cruft" gets left behind. Sure, you can pay for
uninstaller and cleansweep types of programs, but they're hardly 100%
accurate either (and are way too complicated for newbies).

Secondly, a lot of driver packages these days bundle in all kinds of
applets and utilities (the NVidia drivers for example). Sometimes
there are versioning problems with these installs. Rare or not, I've
known people who have run across this more than once.

Finally, to address the other comments: Yes, you can do repair
installs, and yes it does work. Yes, it does save you from
reinstalling apps, but that's not necessarily a good thing. 9/10
times I find a significant number of applications that I no longer
need or that were needed only temporarily (see my uninstall comments
above). It's quite trivial to track and organize this stuff - just
keep a simple Excel *** listing your major apps and utilities, and
once you have downloaded them burn them off to CD/DVD if you are on
dial-up. Most times, I can get a development PC setup with Windows,
Office, Visual Studio, and quite a few other apps inside of a day.

Everyone has their own preferences, but I stand my comments on being
the "safest" way to do it. Fastest? No, but the best things in life
are never easy! Besides, can't we all just get along? :)

Take it easy guys!




On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:53:14 -0400, "Natéag" <gaetanfo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I think I am the one who started that thread.
>I also always « repair » my Windows XP installation
>when changing hardware.
>Never had a problem, except for the one that
>is now solved. I goofed. But it is easy to avoid.
>
>"GSV Three Minds in a Can" <GSV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
>news: 9$EkbVORoMADFACW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Bitstring <nTZLe.1898$ps5.46534@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person
>> edde <waver777@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said
>>>Personally, the worst advice I hear given to people is to just do a repair
>>>install when upgrading a motherboard. It's lazy, and just causes more
>>>problems down the line.
>>
>> Only if you're incompetent. And I'm not sure what 'more problems' means,
>> since I've never had any problems in the first place, nor any 'down the
>> line' (wherever that is).
>>
>>> It's worth the little bit of extra time to ensure a
>>>properly running system.
>>
>> You can have a properly running 'repair installed' system. Trust me, I
>> have several. And it isn't 'a little bit' of time - if you have to
>> reinstall all your drivers and applications it's a LOT of time. Hours,
>> going on days in some cases. Re-installing something like MSofficePro,
>> with all the right options and patches can take hours on its own - hours
>> online too if you don't have all the updates cached locally. Oh, you
>> thought everyone was on broadband? Wrong.
>>
>>> I'm fairly sure laziness like this is the reason
>>>many people have problems with their systems, and then blame Microsoft, or
>>>the hardware vendors.
>>
>> No, incompetence is the reason people have system problems.
>>
>> --
>> GSV Three Minds in a Can
>> Contact recommends the use of Firefox; SC recommends it at gunpoint.
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