1: My computer explodes; I get new computer along with big, new monitor to work on maps and compute whatever my heart desires.
2: The one main program I need to work, my National Geographic Mapping software, fails to open for some bizarre reason. I figure there must be a driver or registry conflict. In other words, its over my head so I have to wait all weekend to contact customer service.
3: Today I get the rare useful email from Nat. Geo. telling me what the problem is (an OpenGL conflict with older Nvidia drivers). I am advised to update my Nvidia drivers and then install a patch for the mapping program. Ok, good...
4: Install updates and patch, mapping software works great but uh-oh, for some reason the display drivers have completely deleted my ethernet drivers, IE what you need to get on the Internet.
5: After a "Kevin's Advice" flashback, I try to reinstall the old display drivers with the hope there would be a network/ethernet driver to reinstall (oddly, rolling back the driver didn't work-- it said no driver ever existed!)
6: FINALLY, reinstall the old network drivers and voila, all SEEMS to be working (and I assume I have the new display driver and the old ethernet driver).
Quite the pain, and mostly the problem with the Nat Geo software. Though it's a good thing I'm not using a Mac because the software is completely incompatibly with Apple's driver system once it gets updated (oops!)
So I'm back to square 1 with my maps after all that. Time to get rollin'
