Ok, so here’s my story … I’ll try to be brief (but I’ll fail).
I got my computer about four years ago and it ran pretty well for about a year. Then it began to have performance issues that I could never quite pin down. What would happen, essentially, is that the computer would freeze … as in any video, or scrolling, or mouse-over stuff, would stop, though I could move my mouse cursor around as much as I wanted to. When it first started happening, it would freeze for a few seconds. But it gradually got worse to the point where the entire system was useless.
I reset to factory settings and everything seemed back to normal, but then the performance shit would start happening again. I was thinking hardware issues so I was bummed.
Now, to try to keep to my short story promise, I ended up resetting to factory settings several times until one time when it froze during reset and the entire PC was effed – I couldn’t even find any Windows files whatsoever on the disc. So it sat fallow for almost half a year when I managed to score a copy of Windows 8 from my niece’s boyfriend.
I’ve loaded that several times yada yada yada.
Now, here I’ve been about three months since my last reload – everything is running awesome. I came to a theory that there was a specific video game I had been loading (Sims 3) which was loading some drivers or something that was fucking things up. I don’t know, but I’ve left it off my system for lo these last few months and my PC had been running like a champ.
NOW …
Last night as I’m heading to bed I get one of the endless “Update to Windows 10 Now!” prompts. Nooooo, I shout as I click the X to kill the window. The next screen I see is this:
“Updating to Windows 10, please do not turn off your system” Fucking great.
I just went to bed to deal with it in the morning. Which I did only to find out that now the computer does not recognize my sound card. A RealTek that is no longer listed in my devices. If I try to update the driver to “IDT High Definition Audio CODEC” it downloads and starts to install before it stops and tells me, “a device attached to your system is not functioning.”
Goddamn it. I didn’t want this fucking Windows 10 and now it has gone and rogered my fucking sound card. I’m pissed.
What is my recourse beyond reloading Windows 8 and losing all my bookmarks and apps and shit all over again?
And what is Bill Gate’s address? I want to throw eggs at his house, that prick.