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Hello friends....
This absence has been quite unplanned...
My soup cooker (aka pc) was having an OS meltdown before my very eyes (had to salvage what i could and reformat)... I tried to avoid a reformat for as long as possible.... just got my modem driver installed and my favorite email client installed again....
hope to have things for you soon... have to catch up on your postings... just thought i'd let you know I'm still alive...
Sorry for the absence... I hope you've heard the good word about the forums.... news is.... there is good word....
Lots to smile about, my friends... lots to smile about.
Be back with real stuff (no ETA --- estimated time of arrival but hopefully by Thanksgiving).
Athena
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Hello friends....
This absence has been quite unplanned...
My soup cooker (aka pc) was having an OS meltdown before my very eyes (had to salvage what i could and reformat)... I tried to avoid a reformat for as long as possible.... just got my modem driver installed and my favorite email client installed again....
hope to have things for you soon... have to catch up on your postings... just thought i'd let you know I'm still alive...
Sorry for the absence... I hope you've heard the good word about the forums.... news is.... there is good word....
Lots to smile about, my friends... lots to smile about.
Be back with real stuff (no ETA --- estimated time of arrival but hopefully by Thanksgiving).
Athena
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... quoting steve winwood [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
hey you're back, great! computer probs,eh. what were you running, w3.11 on a 286?;) geez, i have a friend that still uses one. hope all is better now.
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Hi Athena
Glad you are on the way back. I hope you can get it all running soon. The last Melt Down that I had took me three months to recover from.
Good Luck
Greg.
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For a Mac! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Geez is right, stecyk66. After making my announcement here. . .I toasted a virtual device driver . . vserver.vxd ...to be exact.(don't ask me how).. didn't know how to pull stuff out of .cab files (assuming vserver.vxd was there) so i decided to cut my losses and reformat once again. . . ..
got my i-net connects and fave email client back up.. . back to square 1.5. . . .
geez. ..
thank you all for your patience (and since i noticed that in my previous post I didn't apologize for the absence.. .I apologize). . but it's kind of a relief to know i'm not the only tortured pc owner. ...3 months? wow. hopefully I'll be somewhere noteworthy by the end of two weeks...
To those who celebrate something interesting like Thanksgiving. ..Happy Holiday! To all else, have a great week (or at least make it to the weekend eh?)
With great affection,
Athena
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Hi!
I'm getting good at this re-formatting thing. ...practice makes perfect. ....
(you know, reformatting your hard drive is the cheapest way to get a new computer... everything runs so fast when you have a freshly reformatted drive. ..)
BR,
if you read this post, ... Thanks for the warning about Netscape 6... especially after my 3rd reformat is as many weeks....I'm glad you kept me from doing something completely stupid. . . like trying what may be a final beta of the newest netscape....that's kinda been my rule of thumb since win 95 came out... the first version is still most beta like. ...wait 'til they stomp out more bugs. .. .
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Athena
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I think i got it working finally.
When we last left i had finished my 3rd reformat in as many weeks. I installed 98SE and Norton Utilities 2001 and hoped for the best after about a few weeks i noticed the same system decay that had plagued me earlier. (no longer able to use Norton Utilities Speed Disk -- the only reason i buy norton utilities these days)
So out of desperation I went to the store and bought Win ME. (a mere $50 upgrade for those of us who bought 98SE.
I tried installing ME over top of my 98SE but what was broken before was still not fixed so I had to reformat once more.
But since i had gotten so good at installing 98SE i did one more install of 98SE and got my modem and network card working within 98SE. Then upgraded from there.
I am happy to report that Painter 6.03 works beautifully in win ME! I can move a color bar or menu or tool bar and not have the video garbage left behind from moving it. So does Painter 5. And a number of other graphics programs.
My conclusion is that for MY system 98SE was unstable. My system is a clone that I built with a via MVP3 chipset, an AMD K6-2 350, an ATI all-in-wonder pro (8MB) (don't laugh it was top of the line in its day).
I also took some time out to open my computer's case and clean out the dust (heh . . . that's what the canned air is for. . . to clean out the fans in you case and on your processor and cards. Just remember, canned air is not hairspray. . . do not shake the canned air before using it.
Since i hadn't installed any new hardware components in my pc in many months I had a fair accumulation of dust inside my pc.
Think about it how often do you change your filters for your air conditioner? It's the same principle for your pc. The little fans inside your computer circulate air around to keep things cool and most air carries dust. So the inside getting dusty is a natural byproduct of computer use over time.
Things I like about windows ME
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<LI>The way it handles my vid card (things look very nice)
<LI>the pinball game is back! if you remember the days when win 95 came out there were people who bought the win 95 plus pack just to get the cool pinball game. The pinball game disappeared in my 98SE install but it's back and as fun as ever
<LI>the restore systemfeature thank goodness I haven't had to try this one yet but in theory, if i install one of those programs that you very quickly wish you hadn't installed because it breaks everything.... I should be able to turn back the clock and go to a previously working setup. My neighbor has tested this and for him, it has worked[/list]
Is Win ME the perfect OS? Nope On my second computer identical in every way to my work computer (except for the video card). It is having problems installing ME.
But when it does install properly, it is a very nice operating system.
(how's that for a mixed review?)
Ok back to work. I need to put some stuff together for this forum. . . .there have been some topics i wanted to participate in and the pc was not agreeing with me so this time for real.
Athena
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athena
boy, maybe i'll be a nice guy and buy you a mac! but since you're such a nice computer geek i'm not sure you'll be able to pull off the necessary 'condescending mac user' attitude... heck! what am i saying, neither can i !?
well it's great to see you back again. you seem to be having way to many problems on the computer for the average person to deal with, but what do you expect from windoze.... oops, sorry. a wee bit of attitude just slipped out [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] won't happen again......
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Hi Stecyk66!
You better re-think your Mac keyboard, it really mangled your name [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
You don't know how many times I've thought. . . "I wish i had a Mac" but odds are it would be different problems that I would be completely clueless about. At least with Win-Doze I have a few clues (like they helped me so much these past few weeks.. . .but with the help of ME I think I can finally call victory mine).
I mean I was stunned at how easy you said it was to uninstall a program on a Mac. . .That is just too easy . . . still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Athena
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In my experience, Mac crashes at least as easily as PC. Do beware of the jabberwock WinME as it eats up hundreds of megabytes, and you only notice when it's too late. A solution is to be found on www.98lite.net. It is also a good idea to make a separate partition on your hard disk with your files, so, if Windows crashes, you never lose your treasure...
An interesting browser is Opera (www.opera.com). The new version 5 is free (if you can tolerate the modest publicity). As far as CSS is concerned, it is the best. It's got an e-mail client and all and is, in my experience faster as well with 56K as with cable ISDN.
[This message was edited by Erik Heyninck on January 30, 2001 at 04:51 PM.]
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Hi Athena,
Glad you are getting back. I guess my three months was a picnic compared to what you have been through with your Soup Cooker.
Greg
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"My conclusion is that for MY system 98SE was unstable. My system is a clone
that I built with a via MVP3 chipset, an AMD K6-2 350, an ATI all-in-wonder pro
(8MB) (don't laugh it was top of the line in its day)."
The K6-2 CPU can be unstable on Win98SE at speeds above 300Mhz. There's a patch at the Microsoft website that corrects this. If you didn't install it, that's why your computer was trashy. Not important now, but I thought you might want to know about it. (I have a K6-2 500, which is how I found out about it.)
KB article #Q192841: Problems Using High Speed AMD K6-2/350 Central Processing Unit
The VIA chipset can be flaky with USB, and you might want to do some research. I have an MVP3 mainboard myself, which is how I found out about that as well.
http://www.usbman.com/Guides/VIA%20T...d%20Tricks.htm
Doug Frost
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Having a friend who runs Win 98 2nd on a AMD K6 500MHz machine, and who has nothing but trouble, I visited the question you write about on Microsoft's site (I felt like inside the Death Star), but the problem is about Win 95 and AMD K6, they state that the problem has been fixed for Win 98...
Still, it confirms what I try to explain to him: Celeron, Duron and K6 are like handy vans, but Athlon, Thunderbird and Pentium are like big trucks. Both can have the same speed when all goes well, but in the mountains,when things become difficult, the trucks carry on with their heavy load, while the vans tend to crash...it's never the speed that's of prime importance, but what you can load AND as much RAM as you can afford.
I bought my first computer ever a little more than a year ago, a Compaq (nothing but trouble with those backweb things they implant), but when it was electrocuted by an overdose of volts, I gladly chose to assemble a PC with only the same processor speed but a real Pentium and lots of RAM with it, instead of a Gigabyte sportscar that has no place for luggage. (my car is a small van...)
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Erik!
98 lite? I recall hearing about that back in the US vs MS trial. Might be worth looking into. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
RE: AMD K62 and win95b (aka OSR2) . . . yes I had that problem too. I had to d-load a patch and install it shortly after tricking my motherboard (Through forcing ESCD update) to run Win 95 OSR2. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] I was so proud of my computer though, I thought that my processor was too fast for win 95 [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] who knows. . . It was fixed in 98 SE.
RE: Opera
another worthy experiment. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Monastic Bat!
[img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] two computers, twice the fun. . . .
[img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] actually 3 if you count the notebook
Doug!
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wow! you don't know how timely that info was for me. I have recently discovered that PC number 2 which has a USB modem (for those random emergencies when you need to dial in [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] )and the USB modem has, in fact interfered with normal work on that computer.
I never would have suspected my chipset was betraying me all this time. . .but it makes sense. I will have to follow up on that information soon. but Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Your information was invaluable!
Athena
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