Oh crap!
Posted on August 13, 2004 @ 12:26 in Software
I've spend a whole lot of time on this really gruesome bug. I foolishly tried to install an ISDN card after updating and patching Windows 2000 up the wazoo. Some drivers just will not install after installing ServicePack 3, 4 or one of Microsoft's critical updates. In this case the ISDN driver quit the installation with the complaint that "a file" could not be found. What file? But no... "a" file could not be found during installation.
Eventually I had managed to mess up a freshly installed Windows 2000 so badly that no networking was possible anymore at all (yes it's possible! ipconfig /renew said that that the adapter I was trying to renew had no sockets anymore... whatever that means). I don't know if the bugfix actually works, I just installed Windows anew, again, and installed the ISDN driver before installing any updates. Worked fine, no problem. Which leads me to conclude that the very original installation of that computer predated SP3 and that hotfix that Microsoft mentions. Which explains why I had no recollection of there being any problem with installing that ISDN card in the first place. I think it's only cost me, oh what... 12 hours in total.
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