Drivers

I will never fucking install device drivers from Windows Update again.

It has been nagging me for a while about having a new driver for my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Turns out the driver it had been trying to get me to update to wasn't for Windows XP. Oh yes, it was for my video card, but not for my version of windows.

So I had a cramped arse little screen area with a whacked out color palette that reminded me more of my old CGA video games like Neuromancer then anything else. Had to waste time poking at it for a while before I finally rolled back to the previous driver I'd had installed.

Stupid on my part to even attempt. I tend to check manufacturers a few times a year for their driver updates so I specifically don't have to rely on third-parties like Dell or Microsoft for drivers ( my current computer is a Dell Dimension ). Gyah. What in the hell possessed me to do this.

Never. Ever. Again.