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 #63 Monday, September 8, 2003 6:18 AM
Wife's comp continues to be snobbish....doesn't want to play with me...
When the OpenGL Win98 screensavers can crash your system you know something's wrong....and the latest Asus 7100 drivers didn't help.....loads to black screen and 'dos' cursor....then you have to Vulcan Mind-claw to get going again.
Will have to go back to an older driver....
Reply #64 Monday, September 8, 2003 8:22 AM
Vulcan Mind-claw? Tell me about it, I'm all ears...
Do you mean Mind-meld?
Reply #66 Monday, September 8, 2003 4:44 PM
or was that badges? never can remember. and Bogie aint talkin'.
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Reply #69 Monday, September 8, 2003 8:02 PM
I also ran the AMD patch for the AGP and it also did help on another system.
Again I do not know if that will help or not..
Oh, and I also had to figure out which ROM area was being shadowed/cached and disable that specific regions on another system. I think it was the second from the top in the Shadow setup of the BIOS...
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Reply #70 Monday, September 8, 2003 10:03 PM
| It hjust reminds me how crappy 98 is...I never have to give xp the 3 finger..Seems fairly stable compared to all other Microsoft OS. |
I found a OS that is way more stable. Actually I found 2. Linux and OS X.
But all things considered I dislike 98. Laptop can not handle XP.
Reply #71 Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:51 PM
Well....life goes on.....comps come and go....
The olde box, the Lian Li aluminium case now sports some fine new additions.
P4 3.0 gig 800fsb CPU
ASUS P800P Deluxe MoBo
2 sticks of 512 PC3200 400 DDR
A nice new Lite-On 52-32-52 burner....[gone is the 4speed]
Norton AV2004 [though that is spitting dummies at the moment]
One drive is being a bit 'fussy'....locking the system on virus-scan or defrag.....squeals like a pig.....so I'll have to replace it soon.
New MoBo can read the entire 160gig drive that the oldie could only be tricked to see 128.
Playing with a fixed-frequency Monitor....20", but cannot display post or boot....nothing's visible till logon.....meant I had to switch over to an old 14" for booting/bios changes.
Still a few more bits to add....hardware/software....but it's all 'fun'.....
Reply #72 Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:10 AM
Could got a better prebuilt system or used AMD.
Oh well, each to his own.
Again IMHO!
BTW I just bought a new in the box 52x24x52x for 20 bucks at ebay! I'm in heaven!
Reply #74 Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:14 AM
kona...I could have kicked you an empty box for free 
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Reply #80 Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:27 AM
| Kona....most 'pre-built' systems do not come with these components......sure, they may have some....but when you're looking at 8 USB 2 ports and 8 ata channels [parallel] and 2 serial, 8x AGP, onboard raid, 5.1 sound, 512 cache no bottle-necks with 800fsb and a host of other tricky bits....you pays for what you gets....and I gots.... |
to bad when next rolls around and AMD releases the new 64 bit chip. The new chip will run circles around your P4.
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Reply #61 Sunday, September 7, 2003 7:46 AM