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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Sometimes it's the most simple stuff that throws a monkey wrench into computing. Last week, I reformatted the hard drive on my little laptop. I was having major problems with defragmenter and scandisk working, so I just scrapped it all. I used the system restoration disk that came with my computer. Well, after installing everything to factory specs and restoring all the drivers for the sound card, video card, gameport, etc., my laptop refused to restart. It would hit the "Windows is Shutting Down" screen and freeze. It shutdown just fine, and it restarted in MS-DOS mode just peachy. But it would not do a restart in Windows. I contacted my laptop's technical support people. They couldn't figure it out. So then I turned to the Microsoft home page and (low and behold) found a help article on the problem and seven different trouble-shooting strategies. After three days of trying to figure out the problem, it took me two hours to nail down the problem to a corrupted sound card driver. Since getting a newer version of the driver, I've no problems since then. And that big headache was caused by something so simple as a corrupted driver. Who's side is technology on, anyway? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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