Spoke too soon...
Aug. 28th, 2004 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothIt looks like SP2 *did* fuck up my laptop -- the firewire port doesn't work anymore. The device manager says all the drivers are up to date (and are MS standard, and haven't changed since 2001), but when I plug in the I-Pod to try to synchronize it it doesn't recognize that anything's been plugged in, so the port's effectively useless -- there's no way to manually say 'detect if something is plugged in to the firewire port'. Not that that would necessarily work in any case.
So now I have to either give up on using my Ipod, or suffer through some product support scenario wasting hours of my time, assuming that they'd even be able to help, which I seriously doubt. I've never seen product support actually fix a problem.
Fuck.
EDIT: Or I could uninstall and reinstall the drivers ten times with no effect, then try wiggling the connector in the port and have it finally work. So it's faulty hardware, not software. Is that good or bad?
I suppose it's good if wiggling it keeps working. }:/ And bad if I have to get the thing fixed. Since it's not under warrantee anymore.
So now I have to either give up on using my Ipod, or suffer through some product support scenario wasting hours of my time, assuming that they'd even be able to help, which I seriously doubt. I've never seen product support actually fix a problem.
Fuck.
EDIT: Or I could uninstall and reinstall the drivers ten times with no effect, then try wiggling the connector in the port and have it finally work. So it's faulty hardware, not software. Is that good or bad?
I suppose it's good if wiggling it keeps working. }:/ And bad if I have to get the thing fixed. Since it's not under warrantee anymore.
