In which I bust out a Phillips and unscrew some things.

Several months ago I rebuilt my home computer because I’d let my administrator password expire and I couldn’t get into Windows.

(Don’t laugh! It’s rude.)

Anyway, at some point during that little project, my CD-RW stopped working. Which meant I couldn’t install any software from CD. But I got most of what I need installed from files I’d copied from my external USB drive, and I could surf and that’s about all I do with my home machine these days.

Yesterday I decided I wanted my sound card to work. Actually, it’s onboard – not even a seperate card. So I busted out my canned air and blew half a pound of dust out of the tower and R&R’d my CD-ROM with one my dad had left me.

And then I found the driver disc that came with the motherboard and ran the installer. And still got ‘your sound card is in use’ and ‘there are no drivers installed’ errors. Bah.

So I went to MSI’s site and downloaded a K7 mainboard sound driver at random, which is dangerous because you really ought to be sure you’re installing the right drivers but WTF. And now I’ve got sound! Yeah!

Too bad my iTunes library is still on my work machine.

I take better care of my household garbage than I do my home computer. It’s pitiful, really. I leave the sides off the case and it’s always full of dust and I’ve never installed that auxillary fan it needs and all the wires are hanging out and my hard drive isn’t screwed in and it’s a total mess.

In other news, I broke down and brushed my hair last night because it was starting to itch.