Jafo Jafo

Fun with Pooters....

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Fun with Pooters....

from WinCustomize Forums

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 #76 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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....
Reply #77 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jafo - With your new pooter, are you able to change your B & W desktop to living colour ? Err please.
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Reply #78 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ande...no....grey is still kewl.....it all just happens faster now, that's all...
Reply #79 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jafo that 8 ATA133 setup ASUS runs *is* sweet isn't it
Reply #80 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #82 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes...perhaps...but then maybe the year after that AMD will be for bottom-feeders too.  If people waited for ever NOTHING would end up happening....except old age and death....
Reply #83 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What I always love is when you buy a piece of software that refuses to work properly (and won't uninstall either), and tech support insists that it's not *their* software that's causing the problem... >
Reply #84 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
....or perhaps a long while....Drive is unbootable....so boot.ini or ntloader is mangled, it seems...
Reply #86 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jafo........thats some mean beast you got there. Nice specs
Reply #87 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well...the new system is coming along nicely....though I can't quite fathom why Device Manager claims I have two [2] P4/3.0gig CPUs....and I'm loathe to go into safe mode and remove them [both] only to reboot and find I have none....
Reply #88 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jafo..Is that something to do with the hyperthreading thing
Yrag will know if he's about
Reply #89 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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....