What a great update that bastard was.
I decided to check and get some critical updates for an HP PC running Win98
on a friend's computer while MS was still supporting Win98 (for now). All
Went well with the critical updates, along with a few not so critical
updates just for good measure. Then under Drivers updates was just the one
update for the modem. Not much info provided about it - as usual. Download
the update which then started to auto install itself as well. Part way
through the bastard asked for the driver DISK LOL. No obvious sign of it
amongst the HP rubbish. Hit cancel thinking all would be well, after all it
wasn't like the modem hadn't been working okay up till then. Restarted the
PC for all the updates to take affect - only to find that the modem no
longer worked - great stuff - thanks very much MS. All I had to go by was
the modem's model/code number MSP 3880 W. Searched the Net with my PCs last
night, finding some drivers associated to Aztech, also found that the HP
recovery CD might have the modem driver as well going by info from the net.
Anyway I shoved a floppy disk in the bugger today with a 1.2MB driver on it.
On restarting Windows the modem was found - surprise surpise, and better
still the bastard even worked just as well as it had before the great update
had tripped the bastard up. Some damn info that the driver would be needed
to complete the installed update would've been helpful, and saved a few
hassles.
No wonder people are very careful at times when they decide to update
software or not from MS.
E. Scrooge
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