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Alright! I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again: Never, ever hope for the better with the product from Redmond!

We’re stuck my friends with… Windows – that has just eaten up a pretty well designed and equipped main workstation. I left behind Windows 7 for the old Vista Premium, which at least worked… but I did not vector in the WRATH of Win7 spurned!

Suddenly, my computer has lost all sound!

I mean, not even a whisper can be heard despite several hours of doing unimaginable acrobatics… tests… swaps… and so much ineffective more.

One thing that I observed though is that post-Win7 Vista lost me a bunch of motherboard Intel interrupts that required almost an hour of downloading so that the mobo would return to its (almost) previous state.

But, no sound, still.

This is effectively a crippled machine. No sound means no Skype, to begin with. And I, personally, live on Skype. I have fallen back to an old laptop for emergency sound purposes, while my i7-based “muscle box” is sitting mute.

Thanks, Redmond!

Reluctantly, I will go to the computer store tomorrow for another computer. I’ve already spent nearly two days on this fruitless search for a solution to the sound problem. If I’d translate this into cash, I’d say I’m in already for at least 200 euro.

Nice going, fellas! Thanks, Windows 7!

“Do everything faster!” … as in run to the store to buy another box – and another copy of Windows! Agghhhhh!

I’m now toying with the idea of Ubuntu Linux. A good friend, who’s deep into computers, has given me some discouraging signals, but I have nothing to lose… Once the new box is here, I will try a dual boot installation on the “muscle box.” I have nothing to lose.

But I will never even consider the bidden apple… That would be the ultimate disgrace!

MIRACLE UPDATE:  Big breakthrough! Serious tech friend arrived with complete set of tools. Tweaked. Thought things out. And solved the problem!!! Software problem!!! THANK YOU, GOD !!!  (Just saved 946 euros needed for a new computer…!)