Today I did absolutely nothing than just getting my XPS M1210 back to life. The engineer from Dell changed the motherboard, the fourth motherboard within 2 weeks, thanks to complete cover. Things were acting weird due to some problem with the graphics card onboard the motherboard and a display was coming on the VGA out which was also not perfect and after a while it starts coming on LCD too. By the way I got the LCD changed finally after 3 years. It looks bright as sun now. I tried so hard, got the notebook dropped 4-5 times in the last 3 years, everything except the LCD was replaced at least once.
Getting back to today’s work. The day started by waiting for the engineer, he replaced the board, things worked fine and I packed up things for office. After reaching, found almost nobody there, so decided to replace the hard drive since the older one was having DST failures. Thanks to seagate, the drive got sick within a year. I’m good :D. Installed Windows 7 and tried to restore the 35 GB C Drive image I had created, didn’t work out though. So, started installing everything fresh. While things were in progress, I noticed that I couldn’t get the QuickCam to work although I was using the same drivers as used previously. Tried lot of installs and uninstalls, but could get it to work. Even removed the LCD cable which had the camera wire too, booted into windows using external screen and then connected it back and waited for it to detect as new hardware and find drivers itself. That too didn’t work out. This led me to doubt that the camera or the cable connecting it may be damaged. Frustrated and tired, I removed the new hard drive, plugged in the old one and tried getting the camera to power up. It was working perfectly. Aaahh .. its a driver problem for sure or may be windows 7 is acting mad, which is very much probable and may demand a reinstallation of itself. I placed back the new hard drive, removed all the drivers, connected the LCD and camera and asked windows to search for the problem automatically. I really couldn’t believe but it gave me the link to the correct drivers. Love you windows 7 for that, something which windows XP always lacked. Installed them and the camera is up and running. Although it ate up a lot of my time, I fixed it and got back with the installation of other softwares. Then I’m back home, still with the installations, had dinner and back to same boring work, installed windows live, saw this windows live writer, never thought I’ll ever use it, but then thought I should give it a try. When I executed it, I saw it can link to blogger, and other blogging sites. It also fetched the theme and had other cute plugins. So, that made me writing all this. Thats it for today, I am getting back to work.
