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Wireless LAN card is not working at home, on my old Win98 machine. I'm going to try installing W2K to see if those drivers work any better. Even if the card works, it's possible that the card may not support "infrastructure" networks - which is what the Blueyonder WLAN runs on - or something. And that it may not be in range, it's two floors up and the rooms in our house are very tall ... I hope it works, it will make transferring data from downstairs to upstairs a lot easier. And by "Data" I mean scanned images.
I have tried installing 2K on this machine before, but backed out at the last minute because it decided it didn't have drivers for both my hard disks ... now I've got all the important stuff off onto NewPC it's not so much of a worry. Although there is some music on there that I don't have anywhere else. Meh, I found it once, I can find it again.
UPDATE: Hum. Arsing W2K will not start properly. I can get it up in safe mode, but unsafe mode leaves me a blank screen. And it doesn't even recognise my (serial) mouse. Poo, poo, poo. Should really have left this until after image processing, data transfer difficulties be damned. Still trying...
UPDATE UPDATE: Magic box worky! It apparently needed new graphics drivers of course. Hoorah. Unfortunately the wireless connection no worky so well - good quality signal, apparently, but small and far away. Mostly in the red. So it does not work. Am reasonably sure this is due to distance rather than crazy intarweb cable modem secrecy or whatever, I've given it the proper passcodes and stuff. Whatever the reason, this has the annoying result that even if I can get images up to my PC I will be unable to get them down again - the floppy drive does not work and it doesn't have a CD burner. Cuss. Will see what I can do ... probably tomorrow.
I have tried installing 2K on this machine before, but backed out at the last minute because it decided it didn't have drivers for both my hard disks ... now I've got all the important stuff off onto NewPC it's not so much of a worry. Although there is some music on there that I don't have anywhere else. Meh, I found it once, I can find it again.
UPDATE: Hum. Arsing W2K will not start properly. I can get it up in safe mode, but unsafe mode leaves me a blank screen. And it doesn't even recognise my (serial) mouse. Poo, poo, poo. Should really have left this until after image processing, data transfer difficulties be damned. Still trying...
UPDATE UPDATE: Magic box worky! It apparently needed new graphics drivers of course. Hoorah. Unfortunately the wireless connection no worky so well - good quality signal, apparently, but small and far away. Mostly in the red. So it does not work. Am reasonably sure this is due to distance rather than crazy intarweb cable modem secrecy or whatever, I've given it the proper passcodes and stuff. Whatever the reason, this has the annoying result that even if I can get images up to my PC I will be unable to get them down again - the floppy drive does not work and it doesn't have a CD burner. Cuss. Will see what I can do ... probably tomorrow.
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I can get you a copy of XP Pro, a valid serial and sp2 beta.
Its so much better than 2k
What's with these bullet points? <UL> isn't good enough for Gates?
• PC with 300 megahertz (MHz) or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233-MHz minimum required;1 Intel Pentium/Celeron family, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended
• 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
• 1.5 gigabyte (GB) of available hard disk space.
I scrape through the first two - 400MHz and 196MB. TBH, I don't think I want to sign that much of my PC over to them, especially as I want image processing etc. Plus, OMG 1.5GHz minimum it is the definition of bloat.
I have XP on my proper grow-up Manchester machine, because it has resources to spare, but I don't think it is quite right for my little baby home box.
Oh, there are some other requirements too:
• Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher resolution video adapter and monitor
• CD-ROM or DVD drive
• Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
Gosh, you need to be able to SEE and INPUT duh.
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Re: What's with these bullet points? <UL> isn't good enough for Gates?
:checks W2K reqs.
133 MHz or faster Pentium-compatible processor
128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended); 4 GB maximum
2 GB hard disk with 1 GB available hard-disk space
Hmm. You're right, it is more resource hungry ... at least in terms of memory and hard disk space. Heh, here was me assuming Microsoft system bloat would just increase and increase - you mean they actually improved something?!
Am still wary about that 300MHz processor requirement (how does that affect games?) but other than that XP is looking appealing...