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 #82 Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:11 PM
Reply #83 Friday, October 31, 2003 12:08 AM
Reply #84 Monday, November 3, 2003 11:43 PM
Aaargh....hand-me-down computer is now deciding to dummy-spit....either bios settings are iffy or perhaps the AGP card isn't playing ball.
Gonna be a 'little while' before this one is up and running....
Reply #85 Tuesday, November 4, 2003 12:20 AM
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Reply #88 Thursday, November 6, 2003 8:05 PM
Yrag will know if he's about
Reply #89 Thursday, November 6, 2003 8:08 PM
I thought that it might give some odd glitch....or perhaps that I have 2 x 512 sticks of DDR [400 bus] in parallel in a MoBo with CPU both at 800fsb....[that's the way it's supposed to be].
My 'computer guy' said no....it should really only be there once....
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Reply #81 Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:28 AM