ok well here's the entire story. we were gonna have poker night with about 7 people at my house, but 3 decided they couldn't come at the last minute so i was just like fck it we'll do it next week (and god damn i needed those winnings from poker, i'm broke as nothing else). 2 of my friends still wanted to come over so they brought their computers so we could lan it up with some ut2k4. my friend needed to reformat, but we didn't have a floppy drive to load his sata drivers for windows xp on, so we installed the sata drivers on my hard drive and cloned it and it worked on his computer. funny thing is his computer is completely different from mine (he has a 64 bit amd), and i have a 32 bit (amd athlon xp 2500+ OCed to 3200+). so all of our computers were working and we were ready to ut2k4, but either as i am installing or restarting (i don't remember which), andrew trips over the power strip. their computers are fine, but mine doesn't boot up. wah. oh, and get this, i somehow transfer his system file to my computer again (this is after he installed the rest of his drivers and all his stuff), and it works on his computer. this is when i post onto this forum and say i fixed it. uh no. although it worked in his computer, it didn't work in mine. so at this point i was really pissed that i couldn't ut2k4, and that someone tripping over the power strip could screw my computer up this badly. so i copy the repair system file from the xp cd, and then reinstall xpsp2 (took like 1 hour because it kept on giving me this windows installer bs). but finally everything worked, not as well as before, but enough to ut2k4 for a couple of hours. anyway, my abit motherboard is coming in today (the 2nd replacement), so i might want to reformat anyway. right now my computer is in a cardboard pizza box because i was too lazy to rebuild it and then rebuild it again when the new motherboard comes in today, i'll send a picture sometime later.
