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tvjohn

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  1. Most of the long term forum members may have seen this, but in case it's useful (or controversial ;-) ) http://aumha.org/a/whichwin.php
  2. That is impressive, yes ;-) This laptop always show a floppy, even though it will never see one. There seems to be no way to tell the bios there is no floppy :-) I too prefer to manually start tasks, as not every boot requires the same things. That's right. I also wonder why \\ip is faster, or even why it works, when net neighbourhood either fails or returns an error message!
  3. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269524
  4. I was wondering why for most people it would be necessary to reinstate real mode, so that's a useful explanation. I read yesterday that Microsoft wanted boot time reduced, so one of the reasons to "ignore" DOS. If you regularly need DOS then clearly it's better to have quicker access than a floppy :-) It would also be important for engineers doing embedded applications where they needed relatively simple access to serial & parallel ports for example.
  5. Interesting post tilstad :-) This TP600 has 128 Megs of RAM, which I thought was the maximum but it seems it can possibly take more. That's a fair point about DOS from a floppy, although for me it has to be a CD, as I don't have the slot-in floppy. In fact that's how I got Me on it in the first place, by having a DOS boot CD. A friend regularly uses "Ghost" so I thought that may be a good alternative to System Restore as the size is relatively small, so can be backed up to a DVD RW. I put "Tiny Personal Firewall" on it (not that tiny actually) then disabled it, went to Steve Gibson's Shields Up site, & it said it couldn't identify the OS & it passed his tests :-) I only use a pc normally for a particular task associated with a pci card that only has win drivers, so am not an expert user. For several years I've used Mac OS X daily. I'm used to web browsing with > 20 tabs open at a session, & many other programs running, so it's interesting to see Me in action. Like you I've only used this TP recently, but I've deliberately used Opera with about 15 to 20 tabs open, & apart from slowing down a bit, no crashes. My ghost-using friend's son had Me on his pc until recently, & only changed to xp as he couldn't get a driver for his new TV card. They both think Me is fine. It is hard to understand why it got such a bad press. Maybe there's problems ahead for us ;-) Thanks for the margi card tip. Next to find out if my pc is Zoom Video capable. Although this is intended for "light", occasional use, as I'm not a regular pc user I've been looking for utilities to speed up folder access, particularly in load & save dialogue boxes, launching app's etc., so the program menu is on its second page now, & it's being stress tested :-) I've tried "Xfilesdialog" & "Fastfolders", & am still looking. "GOMplayer" seems a pretty good media player, & Xnview for pic's. Firewire on Me seems pretty reliable too. I'll try the f/w networking soon. I've done a few tests with 98se on a newish intel based mobo, & although it mostly works, it feels a bit fragile compared with Me, so I think I'll stick with Me. I generally agree with your other observations. It's not clear to me that 98se has major advantages over Me.
  6. I don't know offhand. Because I don't have a spare sata, so I borrowed 1 from a pc that has XP & thus NTFS :-) 98se opened a folder containing about 3000 files fairly quickly. It eventually found the local network & is working ok now. I have nothing PCI-X related I'm afraid. The application I bought the IG80 for only needs the onboard stuff. I am using Me on a Thinkpad, but out of curiosity decided to try it on the IG80. In fact it seems that 98se works almost as well.
  7. After much messing around: 1394 working ok on an external dvd. Sound out ok, but can't test 6 ch's as I only have stereo kit. I installed the evaluation copy of Paragon "mount everything 3" & connected a 250G sata hd. I can read from it ok, but no ntfs writes without buying the s/w. Does anyone know if writes are reliable with the Paragon s/w? I may buy it if so. It's supposed to mount Ext2/3 hd's too but no joy there (on another system, not this ig80) Ethernet Nic shows up twice in dev' man' & I can't get a reliable connection so unsure what's up there. Interestingly the Scitech graphics driver works better than on Me! Anything else before I dismantle it all?
  8. Maybe I shouldn't have volunteered so readily ;-) Unlike the Me install, many error messages during 98se drivers installation, eg., missing *.vxd's. It seemed to forget it had a cd rom & the file dialogue box refused to point to D: However, eventually it did boot with just 3 yellow !?'s :-) I'll look a bit further. 1394 is there, IP1000 gigabit ethernet, but I'll test them just to be sure.
  9. I'm using WinMe on this Thinkpad 600, ~ 300MHz, typing this in Opera 9.1. The main problem is not *using* IE, but that some s/w insists on IE6 being present or it refuses to install! However, after installing said s/w, you can often remove IE6, & the s/w works just fine. I tried to download IE6 yesterday, but gave up as it would never start the transfer. In the end I found an IE6 on the net, installed it, installed my s/w, removed IE6, then realised I now have a Spanish shell ;-) Ah well, it will improve my language skills :-) This laptop is an "emergency machine" in the event of power cuts. I was interested to see how it copes with divx, mpeg2 etc., & using an external DVD (internal is cd only) it just copes with playing DVD's at full screen :-) So, be interesting to see if the 266MHz can manage it! HTH
  10. I'm using an IG80 mobo with WinMe currently if that helps? Thanks to Modicr, I got a graphics driver from Scitechsoft. Anything in particular you'd like to know? I have a spare IDE hd so I could install 98se if you really need to know something specific.
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