Fun with Pooters....
Tuesday, September 2, 2003 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I have seven of the mongrels...
This one [I'm using] is the 'prime' one...P111/500 - 1 gig ram....needs upgrading so GrandPrix 4 can run properly....but otherwise only loses my email to remind me it's a Pooter and don't forget it.
My wife's one...P11/333 - 256 meg ram....likes to BSOD in XP [and 98]....issues with the NT4 driver for the GeForce 2 card....no-go for games.
Fiddling one...P200 - 256 meg ram ....locks up in 2K....even the 3D screensavers...eg 3D text....again I'm betting issues with the Vid Driver....Diamond Viper 770 card...again no luck with 3D.
OK one...P233 64 meg ram....seems fine...happy with 98 s/e but then it's an 4 meg PCI card, not an AGP pain in the bum.
Junk ones...
486DX4/100 Win 98s/e
486DX2/50...laptop - OK for Win 95 [no CD-rom]
486SX2/33 - makes a good bookend.
Ultimately the hand-me-down process will happen when I upgrade to a P4 board, CPU and appropriate ram. Essentially I'll be shuffling components down the food-chain...and the bottom-dwellers will shuffle off this mortal coil.
Latest frustration is downloading DirectX 9 and burning that [and other bits] to install by CD to the P200 and its drive refuses to see the disk...[the other Pooters aren't so fussy...they can see it].
Don't ya just love 'em?....
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Reply #42 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 3:09 PM
| As too the 'puter s...I am sooooo lost. Anybody got anygood ideas for a Gateway EV500 with a PIII and 126 mb of ram? |
email me at [email protected] I know someone who would love to have that ol thing.
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Reply #52 Friday, September 5, 2003 1:43 AM
Plug and Pray was in full swing back with those setups
I always loved it when you would pop in a card and it would not take the
static resources the card comes with and would apply it's own odd ball
settings to it..
You plug in say a USR modem and instead of Com3 irq4 it changes it to Com4 Irq9
and then won't let you change the settings inside control/system so you had to
go back into the bios and change the auto irq for the slot to disable and or
change the jumpers on the modem or run the config software
NT4 and 2000 were really crappy about that too, oh and SCSI cards also...
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Reply #54 Friday, September 5, 2003 7:17 AM
Bells finally rang when I noticed on boot that the IRQ allocation for 'Graphic card' was 'N/A'.....thunk to myself....."that's not kewl.....gotta be iffy"....sure enough it was.....rebooted and lo and behold the yellow exclamation mark was missing from the Device Manager.
So what if it took me two complete Win98 installs to discover it?
May be slow...but not 'entirely' stoopid...
Reply #55 Friday, September 5, 2003 8:03 AM
You beat it and won and that is what counts in the end
Reply #56 Friday, September 5, 2003 5:47 PM
Well, all I hope is that while 'Jafo' is playing with pooters is that he is wearing protection.
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Reply #59 Friday, September 5, 2003 9:27 PM
Accent? I don't have any accent
Y'all got me mixed up
Reply #60 Sunday, September 7, 2003 3:08 AM
wait I just got that.
its computers... even if it wasn't...
what was I thinking...
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Reply #41 Wednesday, September 3, 2003 2:48 PM
Aargh! he makes two errors, and uses one to justify the other. this could have useful applications in politics, methinks.