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You Know It’s Been Too Hot for Too Long When…

Arizona, Crumbs — alisa on July 23, 2006 at 11:20 pm

You know it’s been too hot for too long when you start buying winter clothes because you miss them so much.

Curse you, Creative Inc.

Life — alisa on July 18, 2006 at 8:42 pm

The other day the sound from my speakers stopped working. After doing several tests and trying to fix it without help, I decided to run a Troubleshooter. It turns out that the driver for the speakers doesn’t work anymore. So just go to Creative’s (the maker of my speakers) website, and download a new driver, right?

Wrong.

I found the driver download page and it leads you through a series of clicks to find the driver that you need. Finally I found my speakers, and it told me, “Sorry, but we no longer make drivers for your speakers. Would you like to purchase the new GigaWorks S750?”

No! I would not like to the purchase the new GigaWorks S750, but I would like you to make my driver work. Thank you, Creative. How clever and creative of you to make a driver expire after a certain number of predetermined days.

In the mean time, I’ve hooked the speakers up to my iPod. It doesn’t cut it though. I want to use Odeo, Purevolume, and 15 Megs of Fame.

Ridiculous.

Update
After going to my Motherboard’s website and installing a general audio driver that did not work, I decided to try a System Restore. Doing a System Restore worked. But I still have to go back and re-update everything that happened since the date that I restored it to. Ridiculous.

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