>It’s OK! VISTA was not the culprit. I use a 3.5″ floppy 1 time in like 6 months, and I drop my brain. The NTLDR was there, but I forgot to eject the floppy! It wasn’t a normal disk error. It was far more cryptic then usual.

So all is well and VISTA is reinstalling. I may have an extra entry on the boot menu, but I’ll figure out how to edit this new one just like the old boot.ini that was so mysterious when it first came about.

I was going to indicate why I needed to reinstall VISTA, and again… it is me not reading directions. I blame the beer. I can use the computer just fine, but get me into a fixing mode and beer scrambles me all up. =)

I had attempted to update a driver to get super sound. nVidia does my Northbridge, the pipeline between the components of the motherboard – CPU, memory, video, and sound (built in), and they had a new driver for VISTA. There’s no blanket setup.exe yet, so you have to update each component manually. I didn’t read the directions and thus installed the wrong driver for the wrong device. I didn’t make a system restore point so wasn’t able to recover from it.

It threw VISTA for a loop, and often wouldn’t start due to the driver, regardless of safemode or otherwise. It started once, I got in… and discovered there was no auto restore point cause I never did anyhing with it. When this installation is complete guess what the first thing I’m doing is?

I still need some RAM for this thing. I’m currently running some older RAM that’s mixed. I’m running Dual Channel DDR 400 and 366, so it’s all running at 366mhz.
I have 2 gig… but it’s not a good 2 gig.
$200 for Corsair XMS on NewEgg.

Anyone want to buy a Kidney?