When Technology Bites you Back

I had to reinstall Windows XP Pro over the weekend when a bad driver which worked fine up till Friday decided to nuke my system. The only way to boot was to do it in Safe Mode which bites. It was my onboard Ethernet a SiS 900 on a ECS M810S board or what they call a KVSEM. The driver was trying to go past its allocated memory space. What had started it was a power outage, one second, and that's when it died. I've had the driver corrupted twice already and thought that was the issue. Spent most of Friday and Saturday trying to fix it. We eventually bought a replacement NIC which works great so I have my cable internet back. Cheap system builder. Anyways I've been wading through Casssandra Claire's trilogy Draco Dormiens, Draco Sinister and Draco Veritas. Beautiful stuff. Draco Veritas in Word set in Garamond 12 is 800 pages long and 300k words. I would hate to print that mess out. And she's not finished! I was very relieved that I had put almost all my settings and documents on a separate partition which meant I didn't lose my stuff. I do have to reinstall everything and get my settings back which sucks but much better than losing stuff from my last back up till now.