What a lesson I have learned. Yesterday in patience with the Home Depot thing and last night into this afternoon with a client’s PC. This PC had two and only two drivers need to get it up and going. Sound and modem. Through my sniffing tools, I was able to identify the chipset of each but not the manufacture of the card (modem) or the on-board soundcard. Through hours of trail and much error, I gave up in full frustration last night — early this morning — and went to bed at 1:30 a.m.

I awoke frustrated and deflated. I didn’t even want to get up and try after losing with my previous six hour battle. I had to drop off my car, too, and figured might as well do that. Liz and the family followed me and we did that after which we ate breakfast. I wanted to enjoy my family before the dreaded day started.

When I got home and started working on it, it was the same as the previous night. With the modem, I kept getting prompted for the “Windows Modem Install Disk” which I had none and it didn’t like the modem driver package that I had. I figured my driver trick must have messed it up, so I formated the drive and re-installed Win98SE. After the install, same issues. Ugh.

I found something late last night called DriverMagic that seemed to be getting the hardware fingered but it’s drivers weren’t working either. Finally, I fudged on the modem and got it! The Plug-n-Pray wizard had the wrong COMM port! Ugh. After that, I tried another manufacture driver, SoundMAX which failed. I then tried yet another common driver, Realtek, and rebooted. I was greeted with the groovy sound the Windows98 demo. What a sweeeet sound that was! Thank you, Lord!

After all that hassle, sweat, and tears, I was relieved to be done with it. I dropped into Katelyn’s room with mommy and her to read a story. Nice little break and I just love cuddling Katelyn. It was a wonderful way to end the most stressful 24 hours I’ve had in a long time. Trust in the Lord, He’ll work it out.

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