October 6th: weird interim laptop issue.

It doesn't take long for over the top music to pop out of nowhere and try and give you the first jump scare, about 30 seconds.  Within another few, we're greeted with a character we know when from the old film.  woah.... woops.... I had a driver problem on my laptop that I watch DVDs on.

While I'm trying to fix this let me tell you a little bit about my media situation.  I am currently in a room that boasts an Xbox One hooked up to an HP 24" monitor, a Lenovo T60 (Core Duo 2400, 2.5gb DDR2, Radeon XT1300), a custom build desktop (Q6600 OC'd to 3ghz, 6GB DDR2, GTX550) tied to a 24" HP monitor and a 20" AOC Monitor, an HP Envy Laptop (A10 5750 with an HD 8650G) and a Nexus 7 2013 tablet.  All of them are viable means to watch a film, depending on the source.  And that's the thing... depending on the source.  I'm currently writing this on my HP, which lacks a disc drive and for some reason fails HDCP testing (all stock!).  So, My HP laptop is only capable of playing pirated HD films and SD films.  Which would be fine if it had a fucking disc drive.  But it doesn't.  It's my "fun" laptop.

So, I tend to watch DVDs on the laptop that I much prefer to do work on.  The HP keyboard is loosely set up and sloppy as all hell, unlike a Lenovo/IBM keyboard, which is perfectly  shaped, set up and laid out.  The Desktop is almost out of the question to do this type of stuff on because it a BUILT beast from its time.  Original build was in 2006.  An Intel Q6600 with 2 GB ram, 1TB HDD and the formidable 8800GT graphics, which regularly reached temperatures of 220 degrees Fahrenheit.  I used a series of customer air intake fans in my case to lower that by about 20 degrees into safe temperatures under load.  I loved that thing.  Since then I've taken up to a 600 watt PSU, more ram and a GTX550.  Which is now an old card again!

I recently upgraded the Lenovo (a 2008 build that originally came with Windows XP SP1) to Windows 10 against many people's suggestion.  I found it runs it great except for one thing: video play back is fucked by the fact it doesn't have the best drivers available on it.  And now I'm trying to five a laptop that's ancient instead of watching a horror movie.  Maybe this is the horror?  I'm just trying to Windows 10 to load the Windows 7 drivers properly.  Also, if you ever get an HP laptop, their multi gesture touch pads have a mind of their own.

And, I got the Windows 7 drivers to take.  Let's get back to watching Insidious 3 in a live post.