<help!> Need help with HP Vectra - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Sep 2000

From: Mike Ford &lt;mikeford(a)socal.rr.com&gt;
...
 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, 

Yes!  Also check out 98lite on the net.  Take a few files from w95, a w98
cdrom(SR2!) and use that to script an install for a really nice fast W98
system.

...
 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. 

That can be turned of and it helps to remove the offending files.  Msot
of the
however they are better from a robustness stand point even if they are
slower and less feature laden.

...
 Its actually really stinking just how well this system
is running right
now. Everything I toss at it, and its been a loading testing frenzy of
boxes of old games, has worked just fine EXCEPT some of the really old DOS

Getting some dos stuff to run is a matter of setting up the properties
some
to make them happy.  I've run Gcadd6.1 (DOS!) under w3.1, W95, W98
and it runs killer under WinNT4 and I was told impossible.

Allison