- Feb 8, 2000
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More of an FYI than a question.
I just wasted 3 hours getting iTunes to work properly after "impulsively" and "stupidly" allowing Apple Software Upgrade to update my iTunes installation. Big mistake. It updated iTunes to version 10.7 and every time I accessed the store, it'd try to load the home page sluggishly, then crash my video card driver (AMD 6850).
The crashing started as just corrupted desktop graphics (si hueg cursor, blippy screen transitions), but the driver recovered (AMDK... something error). Then it went to full on black screens with an unresponsive desktop and finally BSOD. So, I reinstalled, updated my video card driver, downgraded iTunes to 10.3 and some other version. Still no luck.
I finally decided to check my laptop to see which version I had before I upgraded since it was working flawlessly up until yesterday morning on my main system; I updated both machines when I got my iPod Shuffle in April 2012. Turns out I had version 10.1.2 from February 2011... Got the installer from oldapps.com since an obscure page on Apple's official site only has back to version 10.3. Version 9 was also available, but it doesn't work with my iPod. Got the store for 10.1.2 open right now, running fine for the past 10 minutes.
I'd blame Apple, but I had an AMD 5770 that couldn't run Windows 7 Aero desktop, and kept crapping out. Turned out to be a defective card, but there were lots of complaints about how AMD kept the idle clocks too low for the CPU and memory for the 57xx and 58xx series. My 6850 is a lot better, but it's happened once or twice in the past year. Time to get an Nvidia card and a new music store.
I just wasted 3 hours getting iTunes to work properly after "impulsively" and "stupidly" allowing Apple Software Upgrade to update my iTunes installation. Big mistake. It updated iTunes to version 10.7 and every time I accessed the store, it'd try to load the home page sluggishly, then crash my video card driver (AMD 6850).
The crashing started as just corrupted desktop graphics (si hueg cursor, blippy screen transitions), but the driver recovered (AMDK... something error). Then it went to full on black screens with an unresponsive desktop and finally BSOD. So, I reinstalled, updated my video card driver, downgraded iTunes to 10.3 and some other version. Still no luck.
I finally decided to check my laptop to see which version I had before I upgraded since it was working flawlessly up until yesterday morning on my main system; I updated both machines when I got my iPod Shuffle in April 2012. Turns out I had version 10.1.2 from February 2011... Got the installer from oldapps.com since an obscure page on Apple's official site only has back to version 10.3. Version 9 was also available, but it doesn't work with my iPod. Got the store for 10.1.2 open right now, running fine for the past 10 minutes.
I'd blame Apple, but I had an AMD 5770 that couldn't run Windows 7 Aero desktop, and kept crapping out. Turned out to be a defective card, but there were lots of complaints about how AMD kept the idle clocks too low for the CPU and memory for the 57xx and 58xx series. My 6850 is a lot better, but it's happened once or twice in the past year. Time to get an Nvidia card and a new music store.
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