26 Sep
2000
26 Sep
'00
8:15 a.m.
In a message dated 9/26/00 2:29:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
mikeford(a)socal.rr.com writes:
I'm using W98, but I have the patch (or a speed
related patch anyway).
Lesson one for me was "carefully" make note of ALL the stinkin patches,
then logically work through them all. I flashed the bios, applied all the
W98 stuff, then applications. What is really annoying are the number of CDs
that fairly insist on installing directx of some ancient version, for "best
results".
The KILLER though for a Pavillion at least, is that W98 always thinks its
stuff is the best, so if you redetect some hardware it will "SAY" whatever
it has is the "BEST". So many microseconds after the HP specific driver
gets replaced you lockup and get to pursue manually restoring stuff in safe
mode.
I have a 5 year old machine that I have similar problems. It has the
(in)famous IBM mwave DSP modem which is fragile. Reinstalling all the updates
and setting up network settings is time consuming. You should do what I do
and that is to GHOST the c: drive after you perfect the installation so if it
gets hosed, just reimage it. Big time saver.
DB Young ICQ: 29427634
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