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Well... on my gaming computer, Windows is installed, but I can't get it to see the network so I can't update anything at all. I've tried everything I can think of.

For that matter, it doesn't even see the secondary hard drive (my backup music drive). I have no idea why.

On my bedroom computer, CoH/CoV is installed and updated... but when I run it, the screen turns into a blur. I have no idea why, although I should probably update my drivers and maybe I need to use a different monitor (it's a very old one).

This kind of stuff always pisses me off. I didn't get to relax and game... now I'm going to go to bed after failing to make everything work. Grrr....

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I had a really good 24 hours with computers. A) My game computer hard drive crashed. B) I replaced the drive with a larger one that I had lying around and reinstalled Windows, but couldn't get the computer to see the network. C) I also couldn't see my other drive, which D) I accidentally erased while installing Windows (this was my backup music files -- I lost nothing important, but it takes a good 6-12 hours to copy all of those files over from the main drive. Doh!) E) While doing this I installed CoH/CoV on my bedroom computer and could not get it to display properly when it ran.

Then I gave up, slept, went to work... and my work computer was locking up when I booted up for nearly half an hour. Turned out the ISA server was not communicating with it for some reason, and it would just freeze while waiting for a response. Doh!

So after consulting with Computer Geek Extraordinaire (at work) Chris, who was my best choice because all of the people whose actual job involves computers were in meetings, I was able to get logged in and do my work for the day. And when I got home I consulted with Even More Computer Geek Extraordinaire Mike, aka miertam, and we got the right drivers loaded on my game computer, and the backup hard drive is formatting, and I have lots of fun updating and installing left to do before I'm back to where I want my computer to be. I'm not even counting backing up the music files... I'll probably set it to do that while I'm at work.

And after switching monitors in my bedroom setup, I can now run CoH/CoV on that computer. I was pretty sure it was the monitor, and Mike thought so too, and we were right.