Pissed

Ok fine, its not entirely Microsoft's fault. For those who erm... understands, here's the situation I'm facing now.

My desktop is a DIY box, meaning it didn't come from some rich guy's factory. Therefore, the BIOS is tweaked to allow all the components to work with Vista. Now Vista requires something called ACPI compability within the BIOS, and I'm extremely sure it is compatible, if not how did it work for over a year? Now here comes the problem. The CMOS battery apparently ran low on juice and lost all the BIOS settings one by one. First it lost the disable Floppy drive setting, next something else. Finally, the whole BIOS was defaulted and now Vista can't boot. Normal mode doesn't boot, Safe mode doesn't boot, even Vista DVD doesn't boot. Somehow, Linux also cannot boot, kernel panic. If Linux didn't fail, it can still be said that its only the BIOS settings at fault. Now even Linux failed... does it mean that the hard disk is somehow corrupted? ACPI table corrupted? Master Boot Record corrupted? I'm not at that level yet sadly... And apparently my Windows XP disk is lost somewhere in the mess too. If only I can boot XP... Dammit... Getting more and more pissed at Microsoft after reading what the ACPI was for. In short, it allows Vista to control power management with the BIOS. (aka help save electricity). Now which bloody idiot made this a compulsory feature!? This is getting nowhere...

[edit] Was watching TV, a show on WWI. Suddenly remembered WWI ended on 11/11 at 11AM. On 1918 too, so yesterday was exactly its 90 year anniversary[/edit]