On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:12:50 -0700, "mr.sumo snr."
<mr_sumo@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
>news:7cgoev09sgr8h6693j8t4470t1inhtn0o0@4ax.com...
>> For the first time, I have gotten pissed off enough to actually throw
>> computer parts about and smash them. My keyboard is missing the little
>> legs that prop it up at a comfortable angle now.
>>
>> After installing the wonderful XP operating system and enjoying its
>> wonderful stability for several days....I now find that it has decided
>> it no longer knows where either of my CD drives are, and the stability
>> issue extends to its steadfastness in refusing to recognize them.
>>
>> Any advice?
>>
>
>I thought we weren't ever going to get you into the world of XP Michael?

It's my wife's fault.
>
>That useless advice aside.  Have you upgraded (assuming so) or performed a
>'clean' installation? 

Upgrade.

> Each time I've performed the former I've had some
>problems.  Each time with the latter - touch wood - things have been fine
>and dandy.  Invest in a new 120gig (lowest you can seem to buy these days)
>hard disk and install to that.  

Installed one of those about a month and a half ago. Also have a
120gig external drive, as well as a 20gig external that isn't being
used currently. The D drive is the original 10gig, so all together I
have 250gigs hooked up. I also recently increased the memory to 448mb.
Not that 98 had the slightest fucking idea how to manage it, of
course. XP seems to be doing well with it, though.

>Keep the existing drive as a slave.  

I kept the original C drive (10gig), and someday it will probably go
back in the computer. I'm going to pull the CD/DVD-ROM drive sometime
in the future and put in a DVD burner instead. It has a separate
CD-R/RW drive. One that I had to replace since the original went tits
up on me.

I'm thinking that for my next computer I would like to attempt to
build one myself, so the current 120gig C drive and the upcoming
CD/DVD burner will be pulled from this one and put into the one I
attempt to build. Then the original C drive and DVD-ROM drive will go
back into this one and the kids can have it.

>A lot
>of programs will obviously need to be re-installed but it's a great
>opportunity to 'clean-house', which will greatly increase overall speed.
>E-mail accounts and other settings can be transferred en mass through the
>Files and Settings Transfer wizard.  Still, the writing down of all existing
>usernames and passwords is advised.

All my usernames are "BrYaNpArKeR" and all my passwords are "iSqUeEr".
Makes it easier to keep up with them. The only things that needed
reinstalling were my printer and my scanner. Everything else works
just jim-dandy.
>
>Windows XP still has problems with video card drivers - or video card
>drivers have problems with Windows XP!  Anyway, these two in combination are
>the most likely cause of any system hangs, or the now infamous sudden
>rebooting with a really, really useful message upon returning to the XP
>desktop : "The system has recovered from a serious problem"!

After having XP in the thing for about a week, I asked my wife if she
knew how to shut the computer down with XP, as I had yet to have
occasion to manually turn it off. There were some installer-related
system restarts, but so far, I still haven't turned the computer off
myself. Pressing "reset" was a many-times-a-day thing there at the end
of my 98SE days.




-- 

Michael Cash



"I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

                                Elmer J. Fudd
                                Millionaire



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